What do you all do to liven up kind of boring dives?

[The Chairman]

What do you do to spice up a boring dive where there just isn't much to see?

Skill games like Underwater Jenga and blackout buoyancy tests.

 

[OMyMyOHellYes]

??? Do you need pictures or looking in a mirror explained to you? It isn't on MY left side. Put on your gear and have someone take a picture and look at it... we'll wait.

But the Canada flag is not backwards ...

Just sayin'.

 

[lowwall]

I live in an area where there is really only a bad quarry about an hour away and a pretty nice clear spring about 4 hours away (which is nice for photos but also rather small). So diving is limited. BUT I want to meet more local divers and routinely meet up with them. What do you do to spice up a boring dive where there just isn't much to see?

Practice aerobatic maneuvers . You can start with these:

I'm only half joking. I do barrel rolls or inverted "flight" all the time. Immelmann's are fun too if you have the space. You might want to avoid loops unless your BCD has a crotch strap and 2 tank bands.

 

[CanadaDan]

But the Canada flag is not backwards ...

Just sayin'.

It's never backwards

 

[CanadaDan]

My guess is johndiver999 meant that giant octopus tattoo, not second stage. Could be wrong.

If that's the case the giant squid on my left torsoe would be rather insulted as the octopus is on the back of my RIGHT knee

 

[Rob9876]

I live in an area where there is really only a bad quarry about an hour away and a pretty nice clear spring about 4 hours away (which is nice for photos but also rather small). So diving is limited. BUT I want to meet more local divers and routinely meet up with them. What do you do to spice up a boring dive where there just isn't much to see?

I dive quarries too. Here are some things I've done:

• Fine tune buoyancy - quarries are great or this
• Practice different kicks, especially reverse/back kicks
• Practice shooting DSMB smoothly from different depths - nice to practice without current
• Out of air drills (discuss with buddy before dive)
• Watch the tiny fish in the quarry - sometimes I just hover for a few minutes over a grassy section with small fish
• Feed the larger quarry fish -- I'll bring a can of Vienna sausages for the bluegill and bass and kind of crumble them, though sometimes hand-feed (watch the wrapper on the can, those come loose quickly)
• Pick up garbage in the quarry
• Act out a Sea Hunt or James Bond style scuba fight (usually during the safety stop, but always fun) pretending to cut hoses, pretending to pull masks/regs, and lot of fake punches.

Have Fun!

EDIT: Also, you're only about 4 hours from where the Flower Garden Banks dive ship departs:

https://www.texascaribbean.com/

 

[johndiver999]

If that's the case the giant squid on my left torsoe would be rather insulted as the octopus is on the back of my RIGHT knee

I'm so embarrassed, got my cephalopods mixed up.

 

[happy-diver]

if I'm not particularly feelin it

depending on how much effort I've put in or effort I haven't put in
sometimes I'll get out whether it's into the boat, or back onto land

but mostly I'll challenge myself, to suffer the dive with the mindset
of suffering, until minimum air
and surface elated, at having experienced a magnificent, challenge

and don't look at the clock, just the spg

They should make a Padi course on this

hey just get out of the water, if you can


Okay I had just built a rebreather, it was on pure oxygen, took it diving, 3mm wetsuit, perfect weight, no wing
Two weeks later same set up took it diving I had put on weight had to fight to stay under got out drove home

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Take a large slate down with you and a solid graphite pencil and learn to sketch en plein aqua.

 

[lowwall]

What kind of quarry? Bring a hammer and chisel and unleash your inner Michelangelo.