Precious moments.

[Scubakevdm]

I was just sorting through a bunch of my documents, and found this note I wrote to myself regarding a trip last winter. Here's an excerpt:

A guy wasn't feeling so hot because of the waves. He was sitting, head down, his face cradled in the palms of both of his hands. Suddenly… without even flinching, he blasted vomit into the interstitial space between his face and hands, his fingers acting as "vomit vanes". The pattern was much like peacock's tail, plumes of vomit fanning out about six feet in every direction. Before the streams could drizzle into nothingness, they were renewed to full strength by a fresh wave. They peaked and ebbed thrice before he groaned and collapsed onto the bench. Stunning, absolutely stunning. Never seen anything like it.

What are some of your precious moments?

 

[alemaozinho]

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rotfl,hahahahahahaha type two seasickness
Was that the same guy who sat down in the bow later, :11ztongue with his very own bucket???

 

[reefsong]

We were all experienced divers and thrilled to jump in the water and take the ride on Pelilieu Express, supposedly one of the most exciting dives you can have in Palau. The current was ripping and we'd been warned that we had to stay together as a group and keep a close eye on our divemaster. People have been swept out into the China Sea and died because they did not follow those simple instructions. Two macho knucklehead brothers, one from Texas and one from Florida, were bound and determined to go off and do their own thing, so sure were they that they could write their own script and the rest of us be damned. Because they separated themselves from the group early on and HEADED OFF IN THE WRONG DIRECTION and would not return to the group after frantic calls from the divemaster, the rest of us who WERE watching the divemaster and paying attention had to follow the divemaster who was following the knuckleheads and we all took a 40 minute ripping ride over the most boring sand flats you'd ever want to imagine. As if that wasn't bad enough, one of these two bozos had continued to refuse to pee in his suit, or hold it and jump in the water behind the boat later. So after the Pelilieu abortion, the Texas knucklehead stood on the back of the boat facing away from us and thinking that no one was watching, whizzed into the wind, which promptly flew backwards and soaked the bag of one of his fellow divers on deck beside him. And that man was a physician! (One assumes a certain small amount of common sense and decency). Now THAT was "precious"!!

 

[ScubaFreak]

Working as a DM in Honolulu, and we were doing Dive 3 of the OW course. I was just hanging back from the group watching them do there skills, when i noticed one of the girls looking around and then looking towards the surface, i had already started towards her by the time she started her ascent, when we got to the surface i asked was she alright...then, as if in slow motion, i watched her heave, somehow i managed to turn her around before she projectile vomited....what did she say after it happened, " Oh my god look at all the fish swimming around me!" When i told her that they were having a nibble on what was probably her lunch, she proceeded to throw up again...nice.

Then she just popped the reg back in and said she felt great! and she finished the course with flying colours