What equipment have you lost?

[zamburinha]

I lost a mask as I entered the water when helping out with an OW course . I was the last one in and thought nobody had realized, so I took my backup mask out of my pocket and continued happily for 20 minutes or so ... until the instructor starts swimming towards me and hands me back my mask that he just found on the bottom ... they all had a good laugh at me

 

[Clanggedin]

I lost my mask during my Rescue Diving cert scenario. I forgot to clip it to my hog harness after removing it so I could perform rescue breaths taking the victim back to shore. The vis less than 3' underwater, so it was gone the second it submerged. Luckily it was at the end of the scenario. I ended up winning the same mask that I lost from a contest at another LDS later that month. Lucky me.

 

[warmwaterturner]

I lost both of my integrated weight pouches while my bc was drying on a line after a dive.....or maybe someone "lost" them for me. Oh, and I did hear of a guy in Aruba that lost his camera but I think he got it back!

 

[sabbath999]

I had a brand new pair of hard sole booties (with exactly two dives on them, that day) walk away from me at Vortex Springs in Florida. I left them sitting on a table with some other gear, and didn't notice they were missing until I unpacked for my next dive.

The staff at Vortex found a pair similar to mine that had been left by another diver, and had taken them to the lost and found. I suspect the diver came back, saw mine on the table and thought they were his and took them... since we were using tables right next to each other.

The person probably felt like a total jerk when he realized he went home with somebody else's gear. Most divers are really honest about that sort of thing, and I don't fear for my gear with others around.

 

[emoreira]

The only thing I have lost was my dive knife, but it was found by another diver of the same dive boat some hours afters. I had to "pay" for it in the dinner.

 

[N2DeepInAz]

I temporarily lost my brand new Aquasun dive light. Came up from a dive, put it on the swim platform to get out of my gear and then watched in slow motion as it slid off the platform and dropped in just out of arms reach. It was a mad scramble to get back in my BPW and decend to find it. Fortunately it landed on a ledge at about 80ft and I was able to recover it. Another foot or so and it would've been gone forever.

Lesson learned. Always clip off anything you don't want to lose to your BCD and then make sure it's inflated before getting out of it.

 

[FireInMyBones]

5# of lead weight.

 

[DennisS]

Lots of knives and plastic lobster gauges
Tickle sticks
dive float

 

[StuartT]

Lets see.
Lost 1 fin on a shore exit: looked for 30 min in 4 ft of water and never did find it. Had to buy new pair.
Lost reefmaster mini camera 3 times: first time left (forgot the wrist lanyard wasn't on my wrist) it in a small cave at 5 graves in Maui, went back and there it was. 2nd time watched it slip through a small opening in the swim platform of a dive boat. After the dive we dropped a weight off a rope at the stern, followed the rope to about 70 feet and found it. 3rd time took it out of my drysuit pocket to take some pictures of a monster orange peel nudi(8x18") and again forgot the wrist lanyard wasn't on my wrist(let go and kept diving). Dove the same site twice since with no luck finding it.
Found: 2 snorkels looking for the camera 2nd time I lost it. Large dive knife another time. Donated both to the charter boat.
If you are diving in Howe sound my camera is close to the colingwood day marker just off the west side of Bowen Island in about 45-60 fsw. It is negative so sitting on the bottom. Not as exciting as Aquahounds camera story. That was cool.

 

[WoodyLompoc]

TWO masks on the same dive. (Double overhead surf. Smart move already.) Of course the first mask was perscription. I crawled out after the second mask and called it a day.

It looks like I am also not the only one who has a camera floating around too.