OK, 'fess up.... the Dark Side of Solo...

[Zieg]

Wait, I like that, paint a dive flag on here and use her as a surface float. In fact, that may work out very well in S. Fla. where some people have a hard time seeing flags. But then again, I'd probable get pretty upset if I found someone humping my dive flag.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

So our season has started again up here in the Great White North. One dive down. One lecture from a total stranger about the evils of diving alone...

I think I'm going to buy and inflatable Love Doll and drag her around with me... :mooner:

LOL ... I got the "lecture" at a local dive site recently from someone who, it turned out, had just recently graduated OW. Several times I've had people curiously engaged in friendly conversation about solo diving, and I'm always careful to say it's not something for the inexperienced diver to consider. This guy was actually pissed that someone would dive without a buddy, and adamant that I was just asking for trouble. His wife was actually tugging his arm trying to get him to shut up and walk away.

Several months back I acquired a little rubber chicken on a boltsnap, which I have attached to my left shoulder D-ring. If someone asks me where's my dive buddy I point to the chicken and say "right here" ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Hank49]

So our season has started again up here in the Great White North. One dive down. One lecture from a total stranger about the evils of diving alone...

I think I'm going to buy and inflatable Love Doll and drag her around with me... :mooner:

be careful with the weight belt buckle. I popped my "sweetheart" buddy.

 

[Stoo]

Several months back I acquired a little rubber chicken on a boltsnap, which I have attached to my left shoulder D-ring.

Too funny... One of my friends dives with Papa Smurf on his shoulder strap for the same reason...

be careful with the weight belt buckle. I popped my "sweetheart" buddy.

How sad for you... I dive a Viking DS, so I'll have patches handy in that event...

 

[Stoo]

Wait, I like that, paint a dive flag on here and use her as a surface float.

I sorta did this for real long ago...

About 25 years ago, I won a trip to Grand Cayman. We went in July, because the original Mrs. Stoo was about 6 months pregnant at the time, and we figured once Junior arrived, our lives would be over. She snorkeled unless we were really shallow, and then I would stick her on my octopus and tow her around.

She bought a new maternity bathing suit before we left. When I first saw her I burst our laughing. It was bright red, with a diagonal white stripe. She looked like an inflatable dive float. It hadn't even occurred to her when she bought it...

 

[Nemrod]

Whoa Nemrod, I'm pretty new around here but man am I surprised at your post! Antique gear and a 19cf pony in a cave! For God sakes.....Why!?

Because I can.

As to the antique gear, if it were not reliable it would not still be working, at the bow of the Spiegal Grove, three days ago:

Antique Conshelf, Phoenix Royal Aqua Master, horsecollar BC. Worked fine 40 years ago, works just as fine 40 years later, BP, don't need no stink'n plate, yellow cotton military harness, choking the life out of me but I did not die so it is all good.

N

 

[Nemrod]

I sorta did this for real long ago...

About 25 years ago, I won a trip to Grand Cayman. We went in July, because the original Mrs. Stoo was about 6 months pregnant at the time, and we figured one Junior arrived, our lives would be over. She snorkeled unless we were really shallow, and then I would stick her on my octopus and tow her around.

She bought a new maternity bathing suit before we left. When I first saw her I burst our laughing. It was bright red, with a diagonal white stripe. She looked like an inflatable dive float. It hadn't even occurred to her when she bought it...

Could this explain why she was the "original" Mrs. Stoo?

N

 

[Akimbo]

Buddy diving is far beyond my organizational or interpersonal skills. Beyond that, limited visibility and field of view just make it more work than it is worth — unless there is a reason for more hands or horsepower. I have never been photogenic so the model thing is out of the question. Even when diving with friends, we enter and exit on our schedules and decide where to go moment by moment.

I have rode shotgun for spear fisherman in Baja when whitey was about. I was his buddy but he never saw me since I hovered above and behind. Same when it was my turn at the trigger. In my view, that's being a tender not a buddy.

 

[cruiser]

I solo dive because I can give the dive 100% of my attention and totally focus on the underwater experience.

 

[Stoo]

Could this explain why she was the "original" Mrs. Stoo?

She has since been replaced by the "New and Improved" Mrs Stoo. The first one stopped diving. The new one loves it.

Based on your gear, is it safe to assume that you have been married to the original Mrs Nemrod forever? If so, congrats!

A good (diving) friend recently boasted of having reached his 40th wedding anniversary. When met with my puzzled look, he clarified that it had taken him five wives to reach that milestone...

Diving kinda does that...