Pet safety peeves--no debating

[Mystic Gringo]

One of my peaves is the diver/snorkler who brags about touching the whale shark (or other creature)... even if they are not in dorect danger from the animal, they might be from the rest of us on the boat.

Biggest pet peave is attitude, which can lead to safety issues. I hate the diver who thinks they know more, do more, have more. or are more than anybody else... and are down on anybody who is "less" than them. I learned a long time ago, there are people better than you out there... sooner or later, you run into them.

My biggest joy was diving with a new buddy... she coudn't get her ears cleared, so we stayed about 20 or 30 feet (couldn't get cleared deeper for some reason, but she was fine where she was), and we just cruised around there. While not on the bottom, it was fun anyway. This could be listed as a pet peave, but I am glad she didn't force herself into a bad situation.

 

[Zoomer]

how bout, people that signal in pilot lingo? looks like Greek to me. How much air? then I get some sign language like side ways M's. I just figure they are on their own at that point. .....thats what I say: If they fly planes, they are on their own!

Humm, did I miss something in my private pilot training?

 

[Cacia]

Humm, did I miss something in my private pilot training?

evidently you did, cause they all do it. maybe its a fighter pilot thing..... anybody???where is BIGjetDriver, bet he knows.

 

[wreckchick]

For the newbies out there, I am apologizing for my lack of proper buddy checks. It's not that I don't do one with you, you just don't see it. I've already seen your gear in the rack and watched you gear up. I know that you're squared away or I say something, if you did it right the first time then I might not say anything at all.

As for my gear, I usually just say, "if you need air, take the one I'm breathing and if you need to degear me for some reason, use these shears."

In the future, I'll try and be a little more obvious about the check and actually look someone over point by point to show that I'm doing it for the other divers comfort.

Rachel

 

[RadRob]

My pet pieves are:

#1 - What we call mudcats. Those are the people that feel they MUST be as close to the bottom as possible, always stirring sediment and deteriorating any vis you had.

#2 - On live-aboards, getting put in a room with 3 giggly and obnoxious kids. Laughing at their own farts while having a fart contest, pulling pranks on one another at 3:30 in the morning, etc...

I love having fun and laughing. I love pulling pranks. I even helped the boys pull some good pranks on each other. But 3:30 in the morning is NOT the time. I know they like farting and laughing, but in a closed stateroom? Come on, give the old guy a break (only old in their eyes).

I also use the single-finger, you're number one sign.

And I agree with Gringo. I hate the ones who have the "anything you have done, I have done better" attitude. Any story you have, they have one better. The one-up syndrome.

 

[Zoomer]

I'm trying to picture why or where a pilot would use hand signals other than attempting to speak to a co-pilot in a noisy cabin and even in a Cessna you can yell loud enough to still hear eachother... other than that not sure what hand single one could use to signal another pilot flying in another plane....cause as a private pilot I better not be flying close enough (considered formation flying) to see a pilot in another plane..... then there is of course the bird signal (middle finger raised) to indicate you are flying to close to me....

 

[Cacia]

My pet pieves are:

#1 - What we call mudcats. Those are the people that feel they MUST be as close to the bottom as possible, always stirring sediment and deteriorating any vis you had.

#2 - On live-aboards, getting put in a room with 3 giggly and obnoxious kids. Laughing at their own farts while having a fart contest, pulling pranks on one another at 3:30 in the morning, etc...

I love having fun and laughing. I love pulling pranks. I even helped the boys pull some good pranks on each other. But 3:30 in the morning is NOT the time. I know they like farting and laughing, but in a closed stateroom? Come on, give the old guy a break (only old in their eyes).

I KNEW there was a reason I was afraid of livaboards!! Yea, that would make me psychotic after one night.

 

[TheRedHead]

For the newbies out there, I am apologizing for my lack of proper buddy checks. It's not that I don't do one with you, you just don't see it. I've already seen your gear in the rack and watched you gear up. I know that you're squared away or I say something, if you did it right the first time then I might not say anything at all.

As for my gear, I usually just say, "if you need air, take the one I'm breathing and if you need to degear me for some reason, use these shears."

In the future, I'll try and be a little more obvious about the check and actually look someone over point by point to show that I'm doing it for the other divers comfort.

Rachel

Rachel, I think you Florida DMs are way too obvious. It intimidates newbies to have someone staring at you and I just want to tell them to go away. It's one thing to do a buddy check, but having a DM staring at you is annoying. I wish you guys were in less of a hurry and could actually talk to the divers before the dive and get a sense of their experience instead of making people nervous on the boat. I suppose you could make this two peeves.

 

[MSilvia]

Pet safety peeves

I don't let my pets dive.

Seriously though, as far as safety is concerned, my two big ones are buddy awareness (both pre-dive and during the dive).

 

[DivingCRNA]

My only pet peeve about in the water stuff is

The buddy that likes to travel behind and above me.

I didn't know that you dove with my wife!

At least I always know where she is, though I wish it was next to me.... But that is another thread. And, yes, I enjoy diving with my wife.