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re: What's your best SCUBA diving stories, anyone have any close calls?
Posted on 7/16/17 at 2:01 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 7/16/17 at 2:01 pm to DavidTheGnome
So here are two stories, both from Grand Cayman that weren't great at all.
Second dive of the morning so it's our shallow profile. Limit was 40 feet for 50 minutes and this guy sees a spotted eagle ray and hauls arse after it to get a pic. He must have easily doubled the depth limit and once the dive was over Nick (dive master) gets on the CB and transmits out the guy's name, dive card affiliation and number to all dive operations. He was blackballed the rest of the trip and not allowed to dive on the island.
The other one happened last year. A guy with BRAND NEW matching gear gets on the boat and he is wide eyed and looking nervous. He gets in the water and had a hard time equalizing and then it looked like he got it squared away. We were at the old Tunnel site so it's a deep dive. He then starts banging into the coral heads ON HIS BACK so his tank is just smashing the reef. I go over to him and flash him an OKAY? Sign and he gives it back but his eyes are wide. Fricked then shoots up to the surface, rocketing up. I tried to grab his fin and went up a quick 3 feet but I wasn't going to chase. A couple of minutes later, he's back down and really looking like he's fricked up. He was all over the place, and swimming poorly. I went over to him again (expecting either bloody eyes/nose or even foam around his reg). I shoot him an okay and he gives it back, then he's back to the surface again. I never knew where his buddy was, and I wasn't going to leave my wife to watch him. After the dive I quietly go to the dive master and let him know what I saw and he confirmed he saw it too. That man wasn't allowed to dive with the operation for the rest of the trip.
Every time I've seen someone with brand new matching kit I've seen a trainwreck with that diver. As it turns out it's a giant red flag for the DMs and they watch them like Hawks.
Second dive of the morning so it's our shallow profile. Limit was 40 feet for 50 minutes and this guy sees a spotted eagle ray and hauls arse after it to get a pic. He must have easily doubled the depth limit and once the dive was over Nick (dive master) gets on the CB and transmits out the guy's name, dive card affiliation and number to all dive operations. He was blackballed the rest of the trip and not allowed to dive on the island.
The other one happened last year. A guy with BRAND NEW matching gear gets on the boat and he is wide eyed and looking nervous. He gets in the water and had a hard time equalizing and then it looked like he got it squared away. We were at the old Tunnel site so it's a deep dive. He then starts banging into the coral heads ON HIS BACK so his tank is just smashing the reef. I go over to him and flash him an OKAY? Sign and he gives it back but his eyes are wide. Fricked then shoots up to the surface, rocketing up. I tried to grab his fin and went up a quick 3 feet but I wasn't going to chase. A couple of minutes later, he's back down and really looking like he's fricked up. He was all over the place, and swimming poorly. I went over to him again (expecting either bloody eyes/nose or even foam around his reg). I shoot him an okay and he gives it back, then he's back to the surface again. I never knew where his buddy was, and I wasn't going to leave my wife to watch him. After the dive I quietly go to the dive master and let him know what I saw and he confirmed he saw it too. That man wasn't allowed to dive with the operation for the rest of the trip.
Every time I've seen someone with brand new matching kit I've seen a trainwreck with that diver. As it turns out it's a giant red flag for the DMs and they watch them like Hawks.
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Posted on 7/16/17 at 2:14 pm to DavidTheGnome
I got SSI certified in 2013 for my honeymoon. It was cause my husband really wanted us to dive. I'm claustrophobic so figured it would be a great way to face my fears.
Yep...I'm the person they talk about in diving class...where they say "Do not get certified for someone else, do it because YOU want to". I was miserable throughout the class time in the pool and our open water certs in a lake in January (temps 50s in the lake). Got a massive bilateral ear infection as well. But I trudged through it because everyone kept telling me openwater in the warm ocean will be much nicer(and I don't want to let my husband down).
Our one day to dive on our honeymoon:
Husband gets seasick and is looking pale as can be and puking over the side of the boat so he is out for diving at all(and he was the one that really wanted to do this).
At my husband's encouragement, I still go down with the divemaster. 12 feet down, I'm just not feeling it at all. All I want is to go back to the surface. Gave her the signal...and that was the end of my diving
I'll never dive again...maybe get a refresher course so I could rent equipment to basically snorkel at 5-10 feet(because I do really love snorkeling)...but I'll never truly dive again, I'll end up freaking out and killing myself if I did.
Yep...I'm the person they talk about in diving class...where they say "Do not get certified for someone else, do it because YOU want to". I was miserable throughout the class time in the pool and our open water certs in a lake in January (temps 50s in the lake). Got a massive bilateral ear infection as well. But I trudged through it because everyone kept telling me openwater in the warm ocean will be much nicer(and I don't want to let my husband down).
Our one day to dive on our honeymoon:
Husband gets seasick and is looking pale as can be and puking over the side of the boat so he is out for diving at all(and he was the one that really wanted to do this).
At my husband's encouragement, I still go down with the divemaster. 12 feet down, I'm just not feeling it at all. All I want is to go back to the surface. Gave her the signal...and that was the end of my diving
I'll never dive again...maybe get a refresher course so I could rent equipment to basically snorkel at 5-10 feet(because I do really love snorkeling)...but I'll never truly dive again, I'll end up freaking out and killing myself if I did.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 2:24 pm to DavidTheGnome
The eeriest diving stories I've read about involved Navy divers after the Pearl Harbor attack. The deceased sailors were entombed within the ship, but crabs would eat and flesh exposed. As the divers would enter within the ships, they might hear something scratching along their metal dive helmets, only to turn around and find a bony hand and an eyeless face staring at them.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 2:26 pm to DavidTheGnome
Wall diving at night.
Stared into the pure blackness of the sea opposite the wall a few times.
My friends, the abyss does indeed stare back.
Stared into the pure blackness of the sea opposite the wall a few times.
My friends, the abyss does indeed stare back.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 2:37 pm to Jobu93
I was diving below the dam in Kepler Lake in Louisiana and had a bass on a poke pole, and Green Jeans was on the shore near my stuff when I tried to come out of the water. I had to get really creative and try to put part of it under a rock while talking to him and not look suspicious. I sucked at it and he watched me for about a half hour after I got out. Went to retrieve the pole and bass and it was gone.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 2:40 pm to DavidTheGnome
Came up from a wall drift dive in Cozumel and.............no boat in sight for at least 10 minutes. Major puckering ensued.
Stopped to decompress from a deep dive and looked down to see a 9-10 foot bull shark cruising by about 50 feet near the bottom.
On a dive in the Keys a Large Barracuda floating eye level a foot behind my head as a buddy signaled for me to turn and look. shite a brick here and it just backed away from me.
Stopped to decompress from a deep dive and looked down to see a 9-10 foot bull shark cruising by about 50 feet near the bottom.
On a dive in the Keys a Large Barracuda floating eye level a foot behind my head as a buddy signaled for me to turn and look. shite a brick here and it just backed away from me.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 3:24 pm to Tiny Rick
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He said he mirrored every move he made.
Is this something barracuda's are known to do?
Posted on 7/16/17 at 3:46 pm to Yewkindewit
No boat after coming up would SUCK. That would definitely be an Oh shite moment.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 3:53 pm to DavidTheGnome
Diving to the Bottom of the World's Deepest Pool on a single breath
Posted on 7/16/17 at 3:53 pm to PhifeDogg
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Is this something barracuda's are known to do?
I thought they went for shiny so if you had flashy ring goodbye hand
Posted on 7/16/17 at 4:03 pm to DavidTheGnome
Sharks off of Pensacola.
Boat broke away from anchor in Keys.
Boat broke away from anchor in Keys.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 9:37 pm to DavidTheGnome
Candace Gray, who had been Miss Texas USA, died in a dive accident off Mexico. She was a neighbor and friend (and we took turns caring for each others' pets.)
Apparently she surfaced way too fast and her lungs ruptured. She had multiple heart attacks on the flight back to Houston.
Apparently she surfaced way too fast and her lungs ruptured. She had multiple heart attacks on the flight back to Houston.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 9:47 pm to DavidTheGnome
I booked a scuba trip didn't read the details. It was a cave dive that unnerved me a little.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 10:43 pm to Stingray
Wall night dives are the best. Always feels like your being watched....and sometimes you are.
Swimming between coral heads at around 100-110 ft had a school of hundreds of 3-4 ft cuda swim over,under, left and right of me at the same time. Every direction I looked I saw cuda. Most amazing thing I saw in almost 200 logged dives.
Close call in 91' was doing a Navy tables dive to 150ft while spearfishing. Got the onset of the bend's at my last safety stop and almost had to go to a decompression chamber. Symptoms eased off and I stabilized but it led to me getting a case of D.O.N. DysbaricOsteo Necrosis.
Just went through my second total shoulder replacement. Not much fun, as one can imagine.
Swimming between coral heads at around 100-110 ft had a school of hundreds of 3-4 ft cuda swim over,under, left and right of me at the same time. Every direction I looked I saw cuda. Most amazing thing I saw in almost 200 logged dives.
Close call in 91' was doing a Navy tables dive to 150ft while spearfishing. Got the onset of the bend's at my last safety stop and almost had to go to a decompression chamber. Symptoms eased off and I stabilized but it led to me getting a case of D.O.N. DysbaricOsteo Necrosis.
Just went through my second total shoulder replacement. Not much fun, as one can imagine.
This post was edited on 7/17/17 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 7/16/17 at 10:57 pm to AUTimbo
No close calls. But swimming along side two giant sea turtles and picking up a baby octopus during a dive off the coast of Miami was amazing!
Posted on 7/16/17 at 11:22 pm to DavidTheGnome
A cousin used to be a commercial diver in the oil industry. He got the bends really bad one time and ended up in a hyperbaric chamber for several days.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 12:26 am to Broken Arrow
quote:Post it bitch!
wasn't my picture he wanted but the barracuda about three feet behind me. Needless to say the picture is framed and on a shelf in my office to this day.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 12:43 am to DavidTheGnome
I had one close call. I was at Merritt's Mill Pond near Marianna, FL. I hadn't dived in years, so I was excited. We only planned on entering the caverns, and turn around at the Grimm Reaper sign.
I came down with chest congestion right when I arrived. But I planned on toughing it out. I didn't even have a damn weight belt. It was completely stupid.
So I get down there, and it just didn't feel right. End up about 30'deep, and realize that I'm not properly absorbing the air. So I had to signal to my partners they I'm leaving. I go out of the cave, and start to surface. But without the weight belt, it was very hard to go slowly. All I could do, was continue to enjoy my lungs without any breath, as the air expanded. Luckily, it was a shallows dive. If that had been 20 meters, I'd be dead.
Easily the dumbest thing I've ever done.
I came down with chest congestion right when I arrived. But I planned on toughing it out. I didn't even have a damn weight belt. It was completely stupid.
So I get down there, and it just didn't feel right. End up about 30'deep, and realize that I'm not properly absorbing the air. So I had to signal to my partners they I'm leaving. I go out of the cave, and start to surface. But without the weight belt, it was very hard to go slowly. All I could do, was continue to enjoy my lungs without any breath, as the air expanded. Luckily, it was a shallows dive. If that had been 20 meters, I'd be dead.
Easily the dumbest thing I've ever done.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 12:45 am to Eightballjacket
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A cousin used to be a commercial diver in the oil industry. He got the bends really bad one time and ended up in a hyperbaric chamber for several days
I thought all those guys had to spend days in a hyperbaric chamber after every dive. With or without getting the bends.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 1:16 am to CCTider
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I thought all those guys had to spend days in a hyperbaric chamber after every dive. With or without getting the bends.
Usually only for what is called "saturation diving" which is used when the job requires working at depth for many hours spanning days. The body absorbs nitrogen until it is saturated, at that point the decompression time does not increase no matter how long the diver remains at depth. To maximize the divers work time they live in a hyperbaric chamber pressurized to the same depth they are working and will only under go decompression when the job is finished.
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