Pool session ideas?

[hantzu701]

This coming Sunday, I've volunteered to spend three hours in a YMCA pool to raise money for a charity. It will be a LONG three hours at 12 ft.

Any ideas to keep busy?

I have eight other divers from my local dive club who also volunteered. I thought about drills, but I want to keep this fun too.

Because we've taken donations for every minute we spend underwater, I want to remain underwater as much as possible, so surfacing to give feedback every few minutes isn't an option.

 

[Zippsy]

Indoor pool with tiles? Checkers or chess (use weights as pieces - it's easier than plastic)

 

[glbirch]

Take a good book along? Or a deck of cards, though I'm not sure the plasic coated ones would sink. Chess if you have glass or stone pieces.

 

[Zacrifice]

get a few of them cheap electronic hand games and put them in zip lock bags and suck the air out of them, tetris would be a good one!

take down a slate and play hang man hahaha have everyone have a slate also so that they can write down there guess hahaha

hmmm can't think of anything else

 

[LUBOLD8431]

sleep...

 

[glbirch]

sleep...

I was going to suggest that. Not everyone is comfortable with that one though.

 

[hantzu701]

I was thinking of a Survivor type obstacle course of some sort with different stations. The whole thing would have to fit into the YMCA pool. Station 1: task 1. Station 2: task 2, etc. The team has to solve the tasks together.

Any ideas?

Hantzu

 

[Diver0001]

This coming Sunday, I've volunteered to spend three hours in a YMCA pool to raise money for a charity. It will be a LONG three hours at 12 ft.

Any ideas to keep busy?

I have eight other divers from my local dive club who also volunteered. I thought about drills, but I want to keep this fun too.

Because we've taken donations for every minute we spend underwater, I want to remain underwater as much as possible, so surfacing to give feedback every few minutes isn't an option.

with 8 divers .... underwater hockey.

R..

 

[Phaethon]

Will the pool be open to the public while doing this?

If so take your speargun with you, get sponsorship for each catch.

Try chumming the water, see if you can attract a great white...

Seriously, any everyday land activity that can be adapted to be performed underwater will provide entertainment for an audience and get sponsorship out of them. Run an underwater cup scam (three cups and a ball bearing - which cup is it under..?): Ring toss (donated waterproof prizes on the bottom of the pool, people toss negative bouyancy rings in and win what they drop over, cheap prizes in the shalow end and better ones deeper and further from the edge- you get to fish out the rings and prizes); Hold a raffle - you make the draw from wieghted basket full of numbered ping-pong balls and release them to the surface to be fished out with a net for calling...

Just some ideas...

Cheers,

K.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

My GF takes some pool toys for her students to play with so they can get their minds off being underwater. They're actually pretty cool. She has some rubber sharks and rays that sit on the bottom and some torpedos that you can throw and they travel all the way across the length of the pool.