Pet peeves of SCUBA diving

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Endless faffing about when gearing up on the boat during a week long trip...

I'm willing to cut anyone plenty of slack on Day 1 or even Day 2 but the routine didn't change right to the end:
"Can't find my mask!"
"Anyone seen my other split fin?"
"My BC connector doesn't work.... oh hang on it does"
<ignores DM briefing and goes straight to 45m+ on a wall>
"My computer doesn't work... oh it's locked up after a missed deco obligation yesterday"
While the rest of the boat gets hotter... and... hotter fully geared up in the tropical sun :rolleyes:
 
Endless faffing about when gearing up on the boat during a week long trip...

I'm willing to cut anyone plenty of slack on Day 1 or even Day 2 but the routine didn't change right to the end:
"Can't find my mask!"
"Anyone seen my other split fin?"
"My BC connector doesn't work.... oh hang on it does"
<ignores DM briefing and goes straight to 45m+ on a wall>
"My computer doesn't work... oh it's locked up after a missed deco obligation yesterday"
While the rest of the boat gets hotter... and... hotter fully geared up in the tropical sun :rolleyes:
i'm curious how those divers are doing after missed deco on a 45m dive lmao.
 
Well, I wasn’t going to contribute but what the hell.
Where should I start?

How about two guys completely disregarding what I told them about one of my hard and fast rules about no smoking on my boat. Take a guess what these two clowns did as soon as we came up from our first dive.

People taking forever gearing up. That has happened more than I care to remember. One guy took an hour and a half!

Buddies with drysuits that seem to have some issue every damn time we go diving and calling the dive. I go in the water and they sit on shore. I feel bad so I limit myself to one dive. Getting up at 5:00, driving two hours, gas, time, etc. all for one damn dive! I don’t buddy with people in drysuits now unless they bring their own vehicle.

New divers that claim they are way better than they really are and talk a big game. When the actual dive happens it’s a complete shitshow. I actually had to rescue one of these morons once. I even wrote about it here.

I really don’t care what gear people use as long as it doesn’t directly affect me. However, when it does directly affect me they will hear about it.

Divers who don’t check their gear before they leave the house and want to bum stuff at the site like a tank because their’s is a half fill, or an extra mask or a glove or weights or it’s always something. With some of them it becomes habitual and there is a pattern. These are the ones that never get called back.

After we go over a dive plan with a new diver and as soon as we hit the water they burn rubber and are gone. Dive plan out the window. Go up looking for them, regroup and try it again, same thing, they split, no buddy awareness, no situational awareness, nothing. They have no explanation because they didn’t think they did anything wrong. Their comment is “where were you, I thought we were staying together”!?!?

There’s more, but I have a headache now.
 
After we go over a dive plan with a new diver and as soon as we hit the water they burn rubber and are gone. Dive plan out the window. Go up looking for them, regroup and try it again, same thing, they split, no buddy awareness, no situational awareness, nothing. They have no explanation because they didn’t think they did anything wrong. Their comment is “where were you, I thought we were staying together”!?!?
I'm the worst at this...not that I don't care, but I naturally swim fast. My diving is in the northeast, crap visibility, so in a minute or two I realize, crap. Can't see my buddy. So I just chill there for a minute until they catch up...and I try my best to be slow after. In fact, I'm usually looking more at my buddy than the actual dive because I don't want to lose them.
ETA- this is why I would love to solo dive.
 
i'm curious how those divers are doing after missed deco on a 45m dive lmao.
Shoulder aches and on oxygen for a while, but not bent... was a bounce to 45m, very lucky!
 
Almost everything for me boils down to being inconsiderate to others.

Divers with giant cameras hogging time with something the DM pointed out or chasing stuff

Not respecting camera bucket rules

Warhammer maneuver with divers down current

Talking during DM briefing/roll call

Just to name a few
 
- People who boast about their dive count and how great a diver they are, only to get in the water and watch them unable to establish buoyancy/trim and bang on coral with their fins

- People who flutter kick through a wreck and ruin the viz

- People who smoke on a boat
 
- People who boast about their dive count and how great a diver they are, only to get in the water and watch them unable to establish buoyancy/trim and bang on coral with their fins

- People who flutter kick through a wreck and ruin the viz

- People who smoke on a boat
this! oh my god. on my OW dives, when going to see some of the wrecks, they were totally silted out because of the new divers that couldn't control trim or buoyancy. the visibility just to swim around was horrid.
and no, a high dive count doesn't make a good diver...probably most of the silt came from those "great divers".
 

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