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re: What's your best SCUBA diving stories, anyone have any close calls?
Posted on 7/18/17 at 7:50 pm to Mr. Hangover
Posted on 7/18/17 at 7:50 pm to Mr. Hangover
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For those of you who dive, what are your opinions on skydiving? Ever done it? Curious to see the correlation
Nope nope nope. Won't catch me jumping out of a plane.
All you guys are crazy that have these 120ft+ dives. I stick to 100 and below. That being said I got all my certs in Thailand and Malaysia that have some incredible diving in under 100 ft of water. Indonesia is badass too. I got in a school of about 200 smaller barracuda once it Thailand. They were just slowly floating along checking us out.
Diving here just isn't the same.
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Posted on 7/18/17 at 9:28 pm to cajunangelle
I have. Not to stay but only to fish. Current owner purxhsed it as I was exiting. From what I saw it as and what it is now... just wow.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 9:49 pm to DavidTheGnome
I have a buddy that dives with really long free dive fins. He said they help a ton in high current situations. Strap broke and he lost one in approx 180-200' of water. He gets a call from a buddy dive master a couple weeks later, guy has his missing fin. Apparently a newly certed woman diver surfaced with it. Checked her dive computer she had spent quite a good bit of time at 180' plus, surfaced like normal no problems what so ever. Talk about luck and stupidity.
Same friend saw a guy in a dry suit panic on the Oriskany at 150' fully inflate and rocket to the surface. Said he looked like a yellow bouy that launched about 4' out of the water.
Same friend saw a guy in a dry suit panic on the Oriskany at 150' fully inflate and rocket to the surface. Said he looked like a yellow bouy that launched about 4' out of the water.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 12:24 am to Barrister
quote:Tigers are harmless.
14' Tiger comes gliding through our group 10seconds later. HOLEE FRICK
Don't think there are any reported attacks on humans by tiger sharks.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 12:36 am to sigsauer
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Apparently a newly certed woman diver surfaced with it. Checked her dive computer she had spent quite a good bit of time at 180' plus, surfaced like normal no problems what so ever. Talk about luck and stupidity
While the decompression limits in todays computers are based on more research data than the navy tables we once used they are still a once size fits all solution and do not factor in the vast differences in body makeup the effect that can have on nitrogen saturation and outgassing. One person can strictly follow the computer and still get bent while another can do as this woman and survive the dive perfectly fine. The same was true for dive tables, the original Navy dive tables from which the tables used for decades by NAUI,PADI, etc were based on were derived from the outcome of less than 10 dives by Navy divers.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 12:39 am to Sparkplug#1
quote:Winner.
Had a banded sea snake get stuck in my BC for a couple of minutes. It's the most venomous snake in the world.
Rescued a diver that was nitroed out and swimming straight to the abyss. Grabbed his fin at about 325'.
This post was edited on 7/19/17 at 12:40 am
Posted on 7/19/17 at 12:54 am to Scanlon Shorthalt
quote:frick.
Scanlon Shorthalt
That's terrifying and I've dove the Santa Rosa down to 110'. I remember looking out towards it and it was nothing but a blueish-black abyss. It was eerily frightening. I quickly ascended back towards the beach to 80'.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 1:41 am to DavidTheGnome
My first time spearfishing. Go out of Pecan Island about 50 miles out, but only 110' of water at the first platform. Dove the first rig with a friend and speared a queen triggerfish cause I'd never seen one before. Didn't see any thing else to shoot.
Leave that platform and go to another in about 140' a couple miles south. Got seperated from my buddy, but I wasn't worried because I was only about 50' down and I was hanging on the rig legs. But I was on the east side of the platform in the shade and it was much darker than the west side. Anyway, I see this big arse red snapper about 20' below me just outside of the rig so I desend inside the rig legs to his depth, but he's outside the rig and out of range. So I swim just outside the rig towards him and shoot him but made a bad shot. Hit him back and high and the sonabitch comes right at me. Luckily I put my left arm up just as he hit me in the face and arm and knocked my mask almost completely off. I almost freaked out as the salt water stung the shite out of my eyes and I grabbed my mask before if fell off. So I've got a 20 lb. pissed off snapper on my line and my mask in my left hand and now the snapper from hell starts dragging me down and away from the rig into the darkness. I remember looking back towards the rig and the faint sunlight through my burning, blurry eyes and kicking like hell towards it, but not making much progress. I remember telling myself, "As long as you keep breathing, you're okay. Don't freak out!" Thankfully, the killer snapper came off my spear and I was able to swim back to the rig and grab a leg and compose myself. Put my mask back on and cleared it, but my eyes were burning so much I decided to give up and went back up to the boat.
I think my spear fishing days are over.
Leave that platform and go to another in about 140' a couple miles south. Got seperated from my buddy, but I wasn't worried because I was only about 50' down and I was hanging on the rig legs. But I was on the east side of the platform in the shade and it was much darker than the west side. Anyway, I see this big arse red snapper about 20' below me just outside of the rig so I desend inside the rig legs to his depth, but he's outside the rig and out of range. So I swim just outside the rig towards him and shoot him but made a bad shot. Hit him back and high and the sonabitch comes right at me. Luckily I put my left arm up just as he hit me in the face and arm and knocked my mask almost completely off. I almost freaked out as the salt water stung the shite out of my eyes and I grabbed my mask before if fell off. So I've got a 20 lb. pissed off snapper on my line and my mask in my left hand and now the snapper from hell starts dragging me down and away from the rig into the darkness. I remember looking back towards the rig and the faint sunlight through my burning, blurry eyes and kicking like hell towards it, but not making much progress. I remember telling myself, "As long as you keep breathing, you're okay. Don't freak out!" Thankfully, the killer snapper came off my spear and I was able to swim back to the rig and grab a leg and compose myself. Put my mask back on and cleared it, but my eyes were burning so much I decided to give up and went back up to the boat.
I think my spear fishing days are over.
This post was edited on 7/19/17 at 1:43 am
Posted on 7/19/17 at 10:37 am to bhtigerfan
I've never scuba dived before and I read this entire thread. Very interesting stuff. My girlfriend is certified and has tried to talk me into it, but after reading all this I don't think so. I told her I'll go and sit on the boat and drink rum and swim while you're down there.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 11:12 am to DavidTheGnome
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What's your best SCUBA diving stories, anyone have any close calls?
Yep. I almost went scuba diving once.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 11:17 am to bhtigerfan
these guys make spear fishing look easy peasy. LINK
Posted on 7/19/17 at 9:04 pm to DavidTheGnome
Shore dive in St.Croix- Cane Bay. 100 yds from shore you hit the wall at 60ft that drops to 3700ft. Diving with the wife- we were at 80ft cruising the wall, when suddenly looking out to the abyss a big grey blob was swimming towards us from deep water. At first I thought it was a giant manta, but as it got closer I realized I was face to face with a fricking giant bull shark! I froze and he cruised within 10ft of me and kept going. The first thing I noticed were his eyes, which looked to be the size of softballs. It went a little deeper and was circling probably at 90-100ft, so I felt a little safer at that point. My wife was looking towards the walll the whole time, so she didn't see it when I spotted him. I pointed down to her and we swam directly over him, and at that point all I saw were Marty Feldman eyes in her mask and a trail of bubbles! She hauled arse back up to the ledge and got the hell out of there. It was seriously like swimming over a car!
When we turned in our tanks at the dive shop on the beach, I told the dude I just saw Jaws out there. He said "oh yeah, there's been a 12-14ft bull shark hanging around for the last several days. I said thanks for the heads up! Been diving 35 yrs and haven't seen a shark half the size of that monster!
When we turned in our tanks at the dive shop on the beach, I told the dude I just saw Jaws out there. He said "oh yeah, there's been a 12-14ft bull shark hanging around for the last several days. I said thanks for the heads up! Been diving 35 yrs and haven't seen a shark half the size of that monster!
Posted on 7/19/17 at 10:10 pm to Chum Bucket
Was diving the Duane off Key Largo. The dive boat was tied to the bouy at the middle of the ship. My son and I were diving with a group and we had fallen behind. I was taking pictures and wasn't paying attention. We were at around 100' and the current was pretty strong.
The DM hadn't laid out a very good dive plan because she had us swimming down current to the bow and then up current to the buoy rope attached at the middle of the wreck. I was about halfway back from the bow and struggling with the current when I lost a fin. With just one fin I wasn't making any headway, so went and got my fin. When I put it on, I looked at my gauge and was extremely low on air and nowhere near our buoy line.
The DM was looking on and i signaled I was out of air and to my son signaled that he and I were surfacing from here. He was wide eyed but swam toward me. The DM started pointing behind us and I saw the bow buoy line close enough to get to so we surfaced using it. When we surfaced, there was someone tied to it and we got in their boat.
Glad that other buoy line was there. I was scared we were going to have to surface and do safety stops in the current out floating away from the dive boat. I didn't tell my wife about that incident for a few years.
The DM hadn't laid out a very good dive plan because she had us swimming down current to the bow and then up current to the buoy rope attached at the middle of the wreck. I was about halfway back from the bow and struggling with the current when I lost a fin. With just one fin I wasn't making any headway, so went and got my fin. When I put it on, I looked at my gauge and was extremely low on air and nowhere near our buoy line.
The DM was looking on and i signaled I was out of air and to my son signaled that he and I were surfacing from here. He was wide eyed but swam toward me. The DM started pointing behind us and I saw the bow buoy line close enough to get to so we surfaced using it. When we surfaced, there was someone tied to it and we got in their boat.
Glad that other buoy line was there. I was scared we were going to have to surface and do safety stops in the current out floating away from the dive boat. I didn't tell my wife about that incident for a few years.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 11:14 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Posted on 7/19/17 at 11:26 pm to ctiger69
That's it, I'm bookmarking this thread in case I ever get the inclination to dive.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 11:45 pm to sneakytiger
quote:It's not that bad man.
That's it, I'm bookmarking this thread in case I ever get the inclination to dive.
Diving over deep water scares me though. Looking out into the abyss at Cozemel and imagining being dragged down there by the current gave me the chills.
Spear fishing can be dangerous also if you're not careful. People die every summer off the LA coast doing it.
Diving in 50-60 feet of water is pretty safe though if the current isn't bad.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 4:49 am to bhtigerfan
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Spear fishing can be dangerous also if you're not careful. People die every summer off the LA coast doing it.
These kinda threads are my favorite on the OT. Now I also don't know if I ever wanna go diving, I think the idea of the bends, water pressure, nitrogen, having to decomp or risk my blood turning into sparkling water, scares me more than the encounters with marine-life or the abyss (though those also have their own terrifying merits).
Care to share any of these spearfishing mishaps even if they are second-hand/anecdotal? My interest is certainly piqued!
This post was edited on 7/20/17 at 4:50 am
Posted on 7/20/17 at 6:25 am to Sparkplug#1
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Grabbed his fin at about 325'.
Wait. What? 325'?
Was this a Tech dive? How did you get him up and through all his deco?
Posted on 7/20/17 at 7:38 am to purpgold718
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Care to share any of these spearfishing mishaps even if they are second-hand/anecdotal? My interest is certainly piqued!
LINK
Posted on 7/20/17 at 8:03 am to Murtown
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I've never scuba dived before and I read this entire thread. Very interesting stuff. My girlfriend is certified and has tried to talk me into it, but after reading all this I don't think so. I told her I'll go and sit on the boat and drink rum and swim while you're down there.
You can get into trouble quick in deep water. I wouldn't write diving off just because of the scary stories in this thread. Even if you never feel comfortable diving deep water, you can still see some really cool shite at 40-60 feet, especially in the Caribbean.
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