What Scares You The Most?

[Wayward Son]

What scares me the most is well-intentioned people who think they know what is best for me.

 

[Jamie_r]

:11: OMG!!! Tell me you haven't!! :11:

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[Diver0001]

I've been diving since 1969 & have had very few incidents (other than losing my friend & diving buddy to a massive heart attack while swimming on our way back to shore during a beach dive) I live in Massachusetts so most of my diving has been in local waters during the summer/fall months. I must say that what scares me the most is not sharks, Killer Whales or what others (usually non-divers) think would be dangerous down there........It is getting tangled in seemingly inocent & ubiquitous fishing lines, lobster trap lines, dive float lines, etc!! Yes, I do carry a dive knife (which I would never dive without but which, luckily, I have never had to unsheath) for just that eventuality, but I still try to steer clear of any such lines anyway. (Funny how something so innocent on the surface can be so dangerous down below!) Just wondering what things cause concern to other experienced divers ??

Entanglement doesn't scare me. Entrapment concerns me enough to be picky about which holes I'll crawl into.

Losing track of students in training and having to search for them takes years off my life.

R..

 

[Diver0001]

Hands down, propellers.

Boy, I hear you on the propellers. I was in Egypt last year and to keep the zodiac away until we got to the surface we used a blob......and boy were we glad to have it. Some of those guys are maniacs.

The boat we use for wreck diving has jet power. That's very comforting.

R..

 

[Diver0001]

Trigger fish? Please enlighten me.

Imagine the biggest tail-gating, road-raging, this-WHOLE-friggen-freeway-belongs-to-me" blowhard you've ever seen in traffic.

Now imagine that person as a fish.

R..

 

[_Bella_]

I've swum through many minefields of triggerfish egg laying and never been bitten. I've swum over a small anemone with Panda anemonefish and was bleeding in seconds! vicious I tell you!

 

[TheHobster]

1. idiots on jetskis
2. that my wife and kids will not dive with me again
3. my wife will find out exactly how much I have spent on gear
4. that I will not be able to dive
5. that I'll not reach my goal of my wife and I having carnal knowledge of each other in all 50 states -

 

[Jamie_r]

Imagine the biggest tail-gating, road-raging, this-WHOLE-friggen-freeway-belongs-to-me" blowhard you've ever seen in traffic.

Now imagine that person as a fish.

R..

and um ah.....exactly how far north do these guys go?

 

[Scuba Brad]

Finding someones elses warm spot.

Happy Diving

 

[CraigDiver]

I know what you mean... I think everyone knows every time I get back on the boat and take my drysuit off...

What... you pee in your drysuit??? :11:

CraigDiver