Stupid or embarrassing things you did when you where training?

[Northeastwrecks]

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[Dee]

Thresher....

Originally posted by Thresher
...As soon as my head went under, petrol smelling saltwater gushed into my throat and I began to choke like crazy.

Just WHERE were you diving to get into petrol smelling saltwater?

 

[Scott Sayles]

First dive after OW I put my 1st stage on the tank backwards. The resulting high pitched bursed of air had me convinced the o-ring was missing. The instructor looked at me like I had to be pulling his leg. (He was probably reconsidering my certification!) After a long look at me and then the valve, I realized he was waiting for me to "pull my head out" and put the 1st stage on correctly. I was an easy target for jokes that night...

 

[Ber Rabbit]

Went diving on the Nekton Pilot in August. During the drift dive I had my first experience with nitrogen narcosis. The giggling and feeling of euphoria went away after ascending a few feet but I wonder if there was some kind of residual effect. My buddy and I got back on the boat and took off our gear. He was signing us back on the boat and asked what our depth was. I couldn't find my computer! I was searching for it frantically, under the gear, on the dive deck, I was afraid I had managed to kick it off of the boat! Another diver said "Are you looking for your computer?" when she saw how panicked I was getting. I nodded "yes." She said, "It's in your mouth!" That explained why I couldn't answer her! I was holding the computer strap with my teeth! DUH!

Ber

 

[socaldiver]

NetDoc, I think we must be from the same mold (that's a scary thought). I have tried and tried to think what I might have done that was, errr STUPID.

Sorry, can't seem to come up with anything. Got to be something though, just know it. To have 2 perfect people in the world such as the "Doc" and myself , totally unheard of.:boom:

 

[socaldiver]

I just remembered something that might put me on the majority side and not one of them thar folks still screaming foul over "chads"


Right after I got my Reefmaster we were diving Casino Point. At the time I would just use the strap on the camera housing and put it on my wrist when I wasn't using it. Evidently I forgot to cinch it down and when we came out of the water after the dive I noticed my camera wasn't where it was supposed to be. Looking out over the water I noticed it floating about 50 yards out so I had to jump back in and swim out to retrieve it.

Does that count for a stupid act? Oh please please please. I don't want to be like doc.

 

[Stone]

Maybe a thread should be started on what people have lost while diving (and wait for the Virginity jokes to start)

 

[Thresher]

Originally posted by Dee
Thresher....
Just WHERE were you diving to get into petrol smelling saltwater?

Dee

Back here, most of the diving schools conduct their training at one of the islets off Singapore. Being the busiest port in the world, there’s heavy shipping traffic…tankers, cargo ships, merchant ships, even foreign military vessels once in a while, and they all contribute to the pollution in these waters. It’s not uncommon to find patches of oil or some unidentifiable muck around you while on the surface Plus, there’s another islet nearby that houses a petrochemical plant. I won’t be surprised if there are some really strange creatures underwater. So far nobody has discovered any due to the very limited viz.

Hmmm…now that probably explains why the dolphins that visit here turn pink…lol

 

[keralucu]

or so I thought! During my first OW class, after we'd completed our skills and were having a swim around, checking out marine life, I spotted an amazing creature on the bottom! It was a shrimp, about 2inches long and bright blue and orange in colour... (Sea Squirt will remember this embarrassing moment well...) Screaming into my reg and yanking on the fin of our instructor, I pointed at this animal while widening my eyes in amazement at my lucky find :loopy:

Our instructor took one look at the critter, then gave me a withering glance and turned away (it's ok, she's my cousin!) - I looked at my discovery again, more closely this time, and realised that it was a plastic squid lure, complete with hook and broken bit of catgut attached.... That incident incurred no end of hysterical tales and tricks being played on me for weeks afterwards (plastic crabs placed on coral, rubber snakes in strategic places etc etc...)

...whoops...

(oh ye of the three dots...)

 

[Dee]

Sheesh....that must make keeping you gear clean a real chore! :loopy: