I'm not going to read through this whole string, but today I had planned a solo dive in the Clackamas River. I got to the dive site, went down and looked at the river, and asked whether I wanted to dive. The water was cold, but clear, and the river fairly low. But there was a fairly high, cold wind, and it was not real bright out. I decided not to dive, based on the fact that I had asked myself the question, and went instead straight to the bicycle shop I had planned to visit after the dive (I'm buying a recumbant bicycle, and that is also getting exciting).
I will occasionally call a dive simply because I don't feel like getting wet right then. This was such a case. I had no real reason, other than a nagging question in my mind, so I bagged it.
I remember one time last winter bagging a second dive with a diver I had just met, because we had gone a bit deeper than I had planned, and I was in a wet suit and had gotten cold. The real reason for the cold wasn't the wet suit, but the fact that I had left my booties on the outside of the pants, and not on the inside. They had therefore channeled quite a bit of water into them during the deeper part of the dive, and when I was walking on rocks after the dive to get up to our cars, I couldn't feel my heels (I literally got "cold feet"
) So, we went in, got some chowder, and got to know each other better.
SeaRat