Scuba Jargon-Slang
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"Mentally Unstable People PADI Eventually Trains"
- from Mark E.
RikRaeder
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Face Mask
Flippers
Oxygen Tank/Oxygen
Elevator (fills with air, I mean O2, to control buoyancy)
Newbie (an extremely attractive and intelligent newcomer whom others will disparage to make themselves feel better; see Stroke)
Instructor (any guide or DM, but certainly not a certified instructor)
Air Hose (what you breath through)
Pee Sack (keeps you warm)
Gouge Meister (a small local store that sells diving gear; see LDS)
LDS (Laughs During Sale)
Rope (used to pull yourself to depth because you can't sink; see following)
Sink/Float (adjusting your depth in the water up or down)
John Line (a queue of people waiting for the toilet on the boat; see John)
John (a boat's toilet)
Reef Grippers (gloves)
Leg Sword (dive knife)
Breathing Gas (a special mixture of 21% Oxygen and 79% Nitrogen used by some divers)
Flippers
Oxygen Tank/Oxygen
Elevator (fills with air, I mean O2, to control buoyancy)
Newbie (an extremely attractive and intelligent newcomer whom others will disparage to make themselves feel better; see Stroke)
Instructor (any guide or DM, but certainly not a certified instructor)
Air Hose (what you breath through)
Pee Sack (keeps you warm)
Gouge Meister (a small local store that sells diving gear; see LDS)
LDS (Laughs During Sale)
Rope (used to pull yourself to depth because you can't sink; see following)
Sink/Float (adjusting your depth in the water up or down)
John Line (a queue of people waiting for the toilet on the boat; see John)
John (a boat's toilet)
Reef Grippers (gloves)
Leg Sword (dive knife)
Breathing Gas (a special mixture of 21% Oxygen and 79% Nitrogen used by some divers)
RikRaeder:
Thats awesome!!
I also remember:
Portable Urinal - A rental wetsuit
Tim Horton's Dive - a dive that gets cancelled because of weather, Rule 1, etc., and is done in the local doughnut shop (Tim Horton's is THE huge coffee/doughnut shop in Canada)
Tim Horton Diver - someone whose best dives all happen in Tim Hortons. Afterwards they run to the keyboard to tell everyone how great they are.
Tim Horton Diver - someone whose best dives all happen in Tim Hortons. Afterwards they run to the keyboard to tell everyone how great they are.
SkullDeformity
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You forgot "goggles."
ScubaKris
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I did too much of in the 60'ss no,. wait that was the church my parents drug me too.
Head - the boats toilet
Scuba Cylinfers - jugs, bottles, tanks
... then there's the ever popular "Gaffer Gas" for da' old NITROX divers...
thomjinx
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"Blow & Go" for emergency ascent, "Bleaux & Geaux" if you are French Canadian or from New Orleans.
"Heading for sunshine and seagulls" for a diver who has paniked and is ascending.
There was a funny thread recently about the different euphemisms for for, er, "nasal nudibranchs" that you often get upon surfacing.
"Heading for sunshine and seagulls" for a diver who has paniked and is ascending.
There was a funny thread recently about the different euphemisms for for, er, "nasal nudibranchs" that you often get upon surfacing.
One of the funniest I read was in "Shadow Divers"... a guy who hops off the boat with too much lead and no air in the BC = Dirt Dart
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