Question: What's the most dangerous/scariest things you've seen on a liveabord?
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DiveMaven
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On our liveaboard trip last year, our boat got hit by lightening the first week and the second week someone was airlifted off the boat by the Coast Guard due to a dive accident.
miketsp
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Yeah, sorry about that.
Underwater Ogre
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Damn...that is scary...very scary...and WRONG...hahaha
robint
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The scariest thing I ever saw was a diver who refused to do safety stops in Palau (cause he wasn't trained like that back in 80s). We did 4-5 dives per day, and he would go right from 70' or so to the surface, sometimes waaaaaay too fast. 
The DMs talked to him over and over as did most of us on the boat, but he just didn't understand what a "safety stop" was all about. (He was also 60+ yrs old and very stubborn about everything.) He also was the only person on the liveaboard NOT diving nitrox, plus he had a dive computer from when he first got certified.:shocked2: This thing was a relic. What a duffus. There was also a couple on our first Nekton trip to Bahamas who ignored the 130' depth limit and went to 150' and then wrote in on the board where we sign in and out. The DM on deck and boat capt were notified and the couple was they were done for the day and if they did it again they would be done for the trip. They got a bit po'ed but understood that if they got bent the whole boat would have to go back to Fla and everyone on the boat would be angry at them for ruining their trip. I don't know if they did it again but they certainly didn't write it on the board. Duh!
Most people we have met on liveaboards have been very safe divers.
robin
DennisS
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I guess an oceanographic boat can count as a liveaboard. There was a capt and mate in one cabin and six scientific party in the other three. We were out for two weeks and the first five days were dive ops.
About a week into the cruise the two grad students from Johns Hopkins who shared a stateroom started going at each other about hygeine. It kept getting worse and worse, one guy accusing the other. It reached the point where they were yelling at each other. It got so bad the capt had to intervene, he had them remove everything from the room and ordered it cleaned. When they started removing things one of the guys picked up a fin. His roomate had picked up a lobster carapace, thought it was just the empty shell and shoved it in the foot pocket. It wasn't and it reeked. Everyone had a good laugh but these guys were getting ready to punch each other out before it was found.
About a week into the cruise the two grad students from Johns Hopkins who shared a stateroom started going at each other about hygeine. It kept getting worse and worse, one guy accusing the other. It reached the point where they were yelling at each other. It got so bad the capt had to intervene, he had them remove everything from the room and ordered it cleaned. When they started removing things one of the guys picked up a fin. His roomate had picked up a lobster carapace, thought it was just the empty shell and shoved it in the foot pocket. It wasn't and it reeked. Everyone had a good laugh but these guys were getting ready to punch each other out before it was found.
Abidon
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