Diving in spring tides at work a couple of days ago , i was diving on moorings putting marker floats on the anchors , i was lugging that much gear (tools etc.) i ran out of places to connect things so i thought id tie the marker float rope to my weight belt , the second i entered the water i realized what i had done , my weight belt and knife plumetting in to the abyss and me flopping around on the surface , i had clipped my belt buckle over the float rope. what a clown !
what a clown !
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dpbishop
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eleven,
There is no need beat yourself up over minor mishaps like this. That's what we're here for.
There is no need beat yourself up over minor mishaps like this. That's what we're here for.
m3830431
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Once I spent several minutes tring to get down, even lower myself on the anchor line before I realized I didn't have any weights on. Oh well. :huh:
JRScuba
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Consider your self lucky. Could have happened
when you were down!!!!eyebrow
when you were down!!!!eyebrow
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I remember once when I first started diving in a drysuit, I went on this boat dive and was so anxious to get in the water that I forgot to put on my weight belt. I was really excited, because I hadn't done too many boat dives up to that point, and in my excitement I also forgot to purge my suit. So I did my giant stride ... and bobbed like a cork. Problem is, this was before I got in the habit of diving with my vent valve all the way open ... so all that air in my suit made me look like the Michelin Man laying on the surface ... I couldn't even reach over and press my vent valve to let the air out of the suit. I could just lay there till someone else swam over and helped me deflate the suit.
My friends on the boat were howling ... eventually one of them offered to help me get my weight belt on so I wouldn't have to get out of the water and de-kit first.
Everybody makes dumb mistakes ... you don't qualify for clown status until you make the same one for a second time ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
My friends on the boat were howling ... eventually one of them offered to help me get my weight belt on so I wouldn't have to get out of the water and de-kit first.
Everybody makes dumb mistakes ... you don't qualify for clown status until you make the same one for a second time ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
This one really makes me blush.
First time I tried out a drysuit in a local pool I didn't really know squat about it - only I'd heard someone talking about using it as a bouancy regulator (must have missed the "not"). The guy who was gonna teach me was running real late and the evening was wearing on and I was growing tired and pissed off from a long day of work so I thought what the hey how difficult can it be and had a lifeguard friend of mine look after me as I ... Uhm ... delved into experimentation.
I sorta didn't attach my bc inflator hose - planning to regulate buoyancy with the suit and all that. My friend, a non diver, watched in amazement as I tried to descend, puffed up and floundering, a storm of bubbles emanating from the hood, face blue with ball-squeeze.
Quite pitiful spectacle I should say, never mind safe diving practices.
I thought "this ... I'll never learn!"
First time I tried out a drysuit in a local pool I didn't really know squat about it - only I'd heard someone talking about using it as a bouancy regulator (must have missed the "not"). The guy who was gonna teach me was running real late and the evening was wearing on and I was growing tired and pissed off from a long day of work so I thought what the hey how difficult can it be and had a lifeguard friend of mine look after me as I ... Uhm ... delved into experimentation.
I sorta didn't attach my bc inflator hose - planning to regulate buoyancy with the suit and all that. My friend, a non diver, watched in amazement as I tried to descend, puffed up and floundering, a storm of bubbles emanating from the hood, face blue with ball-squeeze.
Quite pitiful spectacle I should say, never mind safe diving practices.
I thought "this ... I'll never learn!"
