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Pink Dive gear!
*skeerd look*
Pink Dive gear!
*skeerd look*
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In tearms of dangerous animals underwater...I would have to go with the jelly fish on this one. Some of their stings are worse than wasps or hornets. Also some individuals are very allergic and may quickly go into anaphalactic shock (sp?).
I teach with a good friend who is always happy, I mean always...one day we were doing some CESA drills, I was @ the surface and he had decended with a student. I noticed he was down for longer than normal, I looked over to where the float was and all I could see was bubbles...he eventually came up and after debreifing the student he calmly came over to me. His lips were about 3 times normal size and for the first time in my life I saw a very unhappy guy. The reason for the bubbles was to "purge" the jelly's out of the way with his octo...About 3 hours later he was still suffering...
Story # 2 - A CD I know in the carrib. was @ the surface and for whatever reason he had to make a quick decent to help someone out...well his decent just happened to be through a school of jelly's, with no wetsuit on a jelly or two ended up making it up his shorts...later that night he informed us it that it felt like he had a cactus for a p****
Sharks are usually more scared of us than we are of them...unless provoked most marine life is very docile...I agree with other posters, the biggest animal danger in the water is the diver himself/herself or for that matter their buddy.
I teach with a good friend who is always happy, I mean always...one day we were doing some CESA drills, I was @ the surface and he had decended with a student. I noticed he was down for longer than normal, I looked over to where the float was and all I could see was bubbles...he eventually came up and after debreifing the student he calmly came over to me. His lips were about 3 times normal size and for the first time in my life I saw a very unhappy guy. The reason for the bubbles was to "purge" the jelly's out of the way with his octo...About 3 hours later he was still suffering...
Story # 2 - A CD I know in the carrib. was @ the surface and for whatever reason he had to make a quick decent to help someone out...well his decent just happened to be through a school of jelly's, with no wetsuit on a jelly or two ended up making it up his shorts...later that night he informed us it that it felt like he had a cactus for a p****
Sharks are usually more scared of us than we are of them...unless provoked most marine life is very docile...I agree with other posters, the biggest animal danger in the water is the diver himself/herself or for that matter their buddy.
I've got a question about something I realize, in retrospect, was very foolish for me to have done.
I'd just gotten a new camera set up and came across a baracuda just lazing around in some wreckage. I started snapping shots and getting closer and closer to the beast until I reached a point at which I was no longer comfortably close (about a meter away from it). I was thinking, somewhere in the back of my mind, "If it gets uncomfortable, it'll just dart away with that baracuda speed."
It didn't occur to me until afterwards, "Maybe it would have attacked me with that baracuda speed."
So my question is, mostly to you photographers, just how close does one get to toothy marine life? 'Cudas, Morays, especially agressive anemone, etc.?
I'd just gotten a new camera set up and came across a baracuda just lazing around in some wreckage. I started snapping shots and getting closer and closer to the beast until I reached a point at which I was no longer comfortably close (about a meter away from it). I was thinking, somewhere in the back of my mind, "If it gets uncomfortable, it'll just dart away with that baracuda speed."
It didn't occur to me until afterwards, "Maybe it would have attacked me with that baracuda speed."
So my question is, mostly to you photographers, just how close does one get to toothy marine life? 'Cudas, Morays, especially agressive anemone, etc.?
GQMedic and I agree on something.
Pink gear should be outlawed.The problem is it could make you vomite through your regulator.
Fred
Pink gear should be outlawed.The problem is it could make you vomite through your regulator.
Fred
Well I don't think it was THAT foolish. In my experience, barracudas are not only not vicious, they're positively friendly. In my avatar to the left here, you can see me in the middle of a school of them.
I've heard of lunatics who get attacked because they get freaked out, draw a knife and get nasty and so of course a critter might get nasty back. I know I would.
But as long as common sense prevails, you can get away with an awful lot. I know I have - got a snap of an adult whitetip, taken when I was so close you can actually see the inside of his mouth. And that with a 28 mm lens.
You might be careful about your strobe, though - that can spook some critters. Make sure they're not cornered if you're using one.
Ok, no breaking into that song! *smirk*
Yes, pink fins may cause other divers to vomit through their regs. Emisis at depth can't possibly be a good thing!
Yes, pink fins may cause other divers to vomit through their regs. Emisis at depth can't possibly be a good thing!
fgray1 once bubbled...
GQMedic and I agree on something.
Pink gear should be outlawed.The problem is it could make you vomite through your regulator.
Fred
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Good one, Fred-"Pink gear should be outlawed.The problem is it could make you vomit through your regulator."
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When I was going my OW checkouts in San Soloman springs, this inch and a half tetra took an interest in my ear. Now these are of the same family as Neon Tetras, characins, but also the same family as Piranhas. Bloody bull-dog jaws! Bit one ear, then the other; hurt a lot. I'm trying to pay attention to the class, covering my ears, then explain to the DM who thought I couldn't equalize - in sign language: "friggin fish biting ear!" ROSLTR (rolling on sand, laughing through regulator)
I always snicker at those who ocean dive without full suits, as they're the ones who need the vinegar I carry, but once I did a G-Stride into a Sea Nettle. Ouch. After I finished the dive, it hurt a lot: Vinegar, followed by Calamine, followed by Sudafed + Antihistimine. Seemed to help. Today, I always wear a beanie, too.
Okay - Sara3 was looking for serious answers. How about this:
(1) Always wear a long suit, and maybe a beanie.
(2) Don't touch anything, ever, for any reason. Details on request.
(3) Avoid jellies until you learn which are harmelss, use octo to purge a path through them on ascent, and really avoid Porteguez-Man-Of-Wars (I've seen them twice in 140 dives.)
(4) Ask captain, DM, LDS about local hazards. Other side of the world has more dangerous critters than this side, i.e. blue-ring octopus, deadly snails, dangerous lion fishes (yeah, some get released over here when they outgrow aquariums). There are few, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
Marine animal injuries are very rare, but I always carry 4 oz each vinegar, alcohol, calamine, and some generic Claratin D.
No worries, mon
have fun, don
I always snicker at those who ocean dive without full suits, as they're the ones who need the vinegar I carry, but once I did a G-Stride into a Sea Nettle. Ouch. After I finished the dive, it hurt a lot: Vinegar, followed by Calamine, followed by Sudafed + Antihistimine. Seemed to help. Today, I always wear a beanie, too.
Okay - Sara3 was looking for serious answers. How about this:
(1) Always wear a long suit, and maybe a beanie.
(2) Don't touch anything, ever, for any reason. Details on request.
(3) Avoid jellies until you learn which are harmelss, use octo to purge a path through them on ascent, and really avoid Porteguez-Man-Of-Wars (I've seen them twice in 140 dives.)
(4) Ask captain, DM, LDS about local hazards. Other side of the world has more dangerous critters than this side, i.e. blue-ring octopus, deadly snails, dangerous lion fishes (yeah, some get released over here when they outgrow aquariums). There are few, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
Marine animal injuries are very rare, but I always carry 4 oz each vinegar, alcohol, calamine, and some generic Claratin D.
No worries, mon
have fun, donSimilar threads
