Splash... No fins :(

[MaxBottomtime]

My kid left a fin at home.. I said we ARE going diving..

I lost a fin during a rocky entry in high surf once. I figured I was already wet so I was diving. I tried dolphin kicking it for a few minutes until I realized that I could flutter kick just fine with one fin. I made a 90 minute dive.

 

[Zeagle Eagle]

On the boat, well on our way, opened my bag, guess what? No BC....no flippin' BC are you serious? How dumb can one person be? Finally ended up diving Texas cowboy style with a tank between my legs. Well at least I got wet.

 

[HalcyonDaze]

On the boat, well on our way, opened my bag, guess what? No BC....no flippin' BC are you serious? How dumb can one person be? Finally ended up diving Texas cowboy style with a tank between my legs. Well at least I got wet.

I wasn't there to see it, but a guy I used to know went and fashioned a tank harness out of a mooring line once (forget the circumstance; someone either forgot their BC or it was busted past the point of a quick zip-tie fix). Even put in a quick-release knot at the belt.

My most painful "forgot something" story was when I lived in Seattle. Went to dive the Pipeline at Alki Beach; started taking my gear out (too poor to afford a drysuit, so I dove wet) and realized I had left my nice 5 mm gloves hanging up in the basement. Well, too far along to quit now. Managed a 57-minute dive in sub-50 degree water. Don't know how cold it was temp-wise other than by the end my hands were just about completely incapacitated. Forget numb; I couldn't even move my fingers.

 

[Bob DBF]

Although I have gotten to dive sites without various equipment which then caused interesting situations, and on a boat dive hit the water without my weight belt once (so far), my regular trick is snorkeling from the boat to to where I decide to submerge, and then hitting about 30 feet before realizing that a snorkel will do me me no good and I better find a regulator. I guess my Ab diving doesn't help SCUBA diving as much as I thought, once I get tired.


Bob
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I may be old, but I'm not dead yet.

 

[decidedlyodd]

How are you supposed to drive the scooter with fins in the way

http://vimeo.com/109197315

 

[TSandM]

With the exception of a tank, I'm not sure there is a single piece of dive gear I haven't forgotten at some point.

My fins story was a shore dive on Maui, where we get to the site and I realize I don't have them. So I made my husband tow me -- underwater -- for more than half an hour.

I've also kicked off a boot, and the fin attached to it, about 1000 feet back in a cave. That was so not a good feeling.

 

[scubadada]

I went for a shore dive at La Jolla Shores and forgot my mask, had to abort that dive, very disappointing to me and my buddy. For many years now I have used a net gear bag/backpack and pack everything in the same place, in nearly the same order. I haven't forgotten anything in a long time.

Over the years, I have jumped off the boat without my fins, without weight, and without turning my air on. I tried to jump in once without a mask on but someone asked me if I'd rather dive with one. I learned from these "embarrassing" events and have not repeated them for many years, but I'm sure I will.

 

[Diving Dubai]

So Last summer we were on a 2 tank dive. It was the second dive and I had my shiney new Dive Rite fins. Being mid week we were on a search and recovery at a site given that we can always find trinkets dropped by the commercial boats with their inexperienced divers at the weekend. Given it was summer the Air temps were in the Mid 40's C (110F) and the bench in the middle of the boat had been in the sun so too hot to sit on. My buddy had already dropped in to cool off - his scooter had gone down on the first dive but mine was in the water already prepped. As I sat on the gunwales I could feel a swell, my pony was clipped on,. mask was prepped and defogged I was just putting on my first fin when teh swell hit the boat and over I went. I surfaced spluttering (no reg in) and asked where my other fin was.. It had gone over and being neg was on its way to the bottom. My buddy inverted and went down, while I sorted my self out - donned my mask got the scooter and engaged drive. Fin was found at 27m and buddy checks completed! Had a good dive finding with 2 weight belts a computer and a Go-Pro all returned to the Dive centre from whence they came in return for a free trip on one of their boats another time

 

[tomfcrist]

I may or may not have forgotten a few things over the years like hooking up the drysuit inflator prior to splashing on a deep wreck.
It's amazing how little range of motion you have with a suit squeeze @150'+

Lessons learned are usually a good thing, and doubles as fodder for the constant ribbings amongst dive buddys.

My fins story was a shore dive on Maui, where we get to the site and I realize I don't have them. So I made my husband tow me -- underwater -- for more than half an hour.

Lmao...I don't know if I'd do that without a scooter. Probably would have told my wife " see you in an hour"

 

[bowlofpetunias]

Haven't forgotten the fins but I have done a surface swim out to the drop spot on my back chatting with my buddies then forgot to put my reg in when I submerged Sure felt stupid coughing and doing the sweep for my reg!

Had a buddy years ago forgot his fins. Nobody had any that would fit his drysuited feet so he walked the entire dive :doh: got some funny looks from the divers we met along the way!