"Worst Diver I have ever Seen!"

[Nailer99]

How can someone with a PhD not put together scuba equipment?

Well.....PHD's don't impress me much. Both of my parents have them, and they're both very intelligent people, but...Mom's is in English, Dad's is in Classics (Greek+Latin) and niether of them could assemble a dart board if their lives depended on it.

 

[Cacia]

hey, I hear she has had a breakthrough!

We take care of our own here in this crowd.

 

[mod diver]

We had a diver like this at CoCo View in Roatan. She was on another boat. But every day her dive buddies came in with stories about how they were managing her buoyancy -- to the point of having to hold her down so she could do her safety stop! I kept thinking this was an extremely dangerous situation and that the DM on her boat should have made her stick to shore dives until she got her buoyancy right.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

We had a diver like this at CoCo View in Roatan. She was on another boat. But every day her dive buddies came in with stories about how they were managing her buoyancy -- to the point of having to hold her down so she could do her safety stop! I kept thinking this was an extremely dangerous situation and that the DM on her boat should have made her stick to shore dives until she got her buoyancy right.

Actually, her instructor should not have given her a c-card until she got her buoyancy right.

It's no mystery why such a small percentage of people who get certified continue diving beyond that first vacation trip ... too many of them learn just enough to terrify themselves.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Carribeandiver]

About a month ago, I was diving with this lady who had no clue how to dive. Buoyancy was a foreign concept and she swam with her hands/arms and kicked simultaneously.
I probably should have been more compassionate but I just wanted to get away from her. She wasnt my dive buddy and on the boat ride out, she said this was going to be her 9th dive.
With buoyancy out of control, safety stops were impossible. She hit her head on a rock or coral during a swim through and nearly knocked herself out. That afternoon, on shore, I ran into her dive buddy and as we talked, he explained that **** was in a chamber because she got DCS.
I wasnt surprised but still I felt badly for her. Perhaps she will learn to dive safely but I think she might be better off taking up bridge or gin rummy.

 

[riffdiver]

good one.

I need that card.

well, I will keep ya'll posted. Somethings gotta give.


On another note...I went to dinner with the people that sold me my house.
The woman is Indonesian and never learned to swim as a child. She proceeded to tell me about scuba diving on an Intro course at resort recently. They both sat there and beamed that she was able to do this even though she could not swim.
Anybody ever heard of this? I was like "oh, ...thats.. nice" I mean what do you say? I did say "did you TELL them that you could not swim?" ..."oh, yes"..beaming, happy, thrilled faces.

Well, I actually heard that one from instructor. Not my instructor, thankfully. Belive it or not, in the chase for a paying student, some insructors will tell you anything.

BTW, judging by your website, your camera work is amazing. That lady that has problem, show it to her. A picture worth a thousand words. Some of your pictures are ....... speachless. Great work.