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re: What's your best SCUBA diving stories, anyone have any close calls?
Posted on 7/17/17 at 1:16 am to CCTider
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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Posted on 7/17/17 at 6:17 am to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 7/17/17 at 6:43 am to Kafka
please delete your gif it fricked up me reading the thread bigly. it is probably why you got so many downvotes.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 7:41 am to Stingray
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Stared into the pure blackness of the sea opposite the wall a few times.
My friends, the abyss does indeed stare back.
shite during the day looking over a shelf makes me uneasy
I'll stick to the shallow waters and sunlight Posted on 7/17/17 at 7:59 am to bmy
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This post was edited on 7/17/17 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 7/17/17 at 8:32 am to Stingray
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the abyss does indeed stare back.
I'm not afraid of any animals while diving; I did however have 1 night dive in my first few logged dives that I'll never forget.
I was diving with a group of friends that were pretty experienced so I agreed to a sunset dive off FL coast. It was several fingerling coral rows in about 40'. When the sun went down, it was PITCH black. The only thing visible was your beam of light. Towards the end of the dive, I experienced vertigo. The sediment moving in front the beam of light was screwing me up. I couldn't tell, see, or remember which way was up.
I shined my light back at my face and exhaled... the bubbles went straight "down"across my chest and out under my arm. Instant panic as my head came down on the sand bottom. I knelt down, took a few deep breathes and got back to the group but seeing the blackness of a night dive, whether in 2000 or 40' is fricking scary.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 8:59 am to Scooba
I was in Roatan last month and had a similar thing happen on a night dive. I didn't hit my head on anything, but I got disoriented by a canyon. Fourtunately I saw my buddy's (or someone's) light flicker at the top and was able to get back with the group. One of those situations where the whole episode probably lasted 30 seconds, but seemed like minutes.
This happened to my buddy on a shark dive while we were there. We had been at 75' - 80' and he wound up running out of air on the ascent. He wound up sharing air with the dive master, because the DM felt I was too low to share. Anyways these idiots from California (who were all so proud of getting Advanced certifications), started climbing on the rope between them, even when the dive master was yelling at them (with his hands) to stop. They wound up ripping the regulator out of my buddy's mouth. The DM got fed up and signaled to my buddy to take a breath off of mine, and reunite with him on the other side of the rope after the idiots cleared out of the way. They had been terrible the entire dive, banging into people, kicking masks off, just entirely unaware. When we got on the boat my buddy and the DM were livid and chewed them out for most of the 45 minute ride back.
This happened to my buddy on a shark dive while we were there. We had been at 75' - 80' and he wound up running out of air on the ascent. He wound up sharing air with the dive master, because the DM felt I was too low to share. Anyways these idiots from California (who were all so proud of getting Advanced certifications), started climbing on the rope between them, even when the dive master was yelling at them (with his hands) to stop. They wound up ripping the regulator out of my buddy's mouth. The DM got fed up and signaled to my buddy to take a breath off of mine, and reunite with him on the other side of the rope after the idiots cleared out of the way. They had been terrible the entire dive, banging into people, kicking masks off, just entirely unaware. When we got on the boat my buddy and the DM were livid and chewed them out for most of the 45 minute ride back.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 9:03 am to jdeval1
All those "scary barracuda" stories are cute
Posted on 7/17/17 at 9:03 am to jdeval1
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big barracuda
5th grade we'd go water skiing (Hawaii) and the barracuda would follow the skier the entire time (I assume the skiing stirred up food).
Didn't give it a second thought at the time, but those fish were a lot bigger than I was.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 9:31 am to mylsuhat
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All those "scary barracuda" stories are cute
Maybe it's a bad thing, but I've never been even remotely scared of barracudas.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 9:43 am to DavidTheGnome
Only that time I was scuba'ing off the coast of Florida and found an underwater Sonic where a merman and a manatee checked my knuckles. They were not found to he satisfactory.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 9:55 am to Jobu93
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Glad I had the GoPro for the week.
Can you post the video?
Posted on 7/17/17 at 10:09 am to Scooba
quote:There is nothing to be scared of with them. They're curious animals but they're are also timid. They won't attack you. Try swimming right at one, he'll get out of there with the quickness
Maybe it's a bad thing, but I've never been even remotely scared of barracudas.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 10:09 am to DavidTheGnome
Used to be an overly aggressive Bull Shark that roamed the I10 bridge ruins off Pensacola. Figured out that spear fishermen had nice fat sacks of dinner attached to them. He started snatching said sacks. Last I heard he ended up catching a couple 223 powerheads and was seen no more.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 10:15 am to CCTider
Had a banded sea snake get stuck in my BC for a couple of minutes. It's the most venomous snake in the world.
Male sea lions didn't want me around their females and they attacked but I was lucky to get out of the water in time.
Had about a 150 pound grouper (potatoe cod) grab my sea sausage and pull me around for a few minutes until I tickled him to let go.
Was cage diving with 15' -17' great white sharks and a small male great white around 9' got in the cage with us.
Rescued a diver that was nitroed out and swimming straight to the abyss. Grabbed his fin at about 325'.
Same thing people mentioned with barracuda, but I don't consider that dangerous. Following you around is what they do. Scary and weird, but pretty harmless considering the odds.
Male sea lions didn't want me around their females and they attacked but I was lucky to get out of the water in time.
Had about a 150 pound grouper (potatoe cod) grab my sea sausage and pull me around for a few minutes until I tickled him to let go.
Was cage diving with 15' -17' great white sharks and a small male great white around 9' got in the cage with us.
Rescued a diver that was nitroed out and swimming straight to the abyss. Grabbed his fin at about 325'.
Same thing people mentioned with barracuda, but I don't consider that dangerous. Following you around is what they do. Scary and weird, but pretty harmless considering the odds.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 10:33 am to Spankum
People die on the reg.
People scuba to collect seafood on ocean floor off the coast of norcal.
Dead ones every year.
I did a search just now. May 31st 2017, dead abalone hunter off mendicino, age 58.
When i was teenager there were dead from lake bistineau scuba pretty routine.
People scuba to collect seafood on ocean floor off the coast of norcal.
Dead ones every year.
I did a search just now. May 31st 2017, dead abalone hunter off mendicino, age 58.
When i was teenager there were dead from lake bistineau scuba pretty routine.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 10:56 am to Sparkplug#1
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Had about a 150 pound grouper (potatoe cod) grab my sea sausage and pull me around for a few minutes until I tickled him to let go.
Is this a "Dear Playgirl" letter? NTTAWWT.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 10:58 am to Sparkplug#1
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Rescued a diver that was nitroed out and swimming straight to the abyss. Grabbed his fin at about 325'.
Holy crap
Edit: actually holy crap on all of your post, but the idea of someone swimming off to their death into this black expanse of the abyss seemed the most nerve wracking to me
This post was edited on 7/17/17 at 11:04 am
Posted on 7/17/17 at 10:59 am to Sid in Lakeshore
Pinnacle reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef. They are like dogs and love to be pet and scratched. I guess he thought I was feeding him a snack. It fell out of my BC pocket but I had it tied off.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 11:13 am to DavidTheGnome
Some people are real sensitive to nitrogen narcosis. I've seen people that can't add 2 +1 at depths around 200'.
I learned to dive in Cozumel when I was a kid. Locals would strap on a tank with no BC and head to depths just for the high.
I learned to dive in Cozumel when I was a kid. Locals would strap on a tank with no BC and head to depths just for the high.
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