I've read the post. First, I am happy to read that everyone returned.
I read some talk about fear. It's natural, I've had it.
"I've never do that again" Thats good, what did you learn?
I mean what did you really learn?
For example, the lady who passed out at depth. Have you ever gone back down to 140'? What did you learn? Was it a one time case? As you descend
and you begin to reach that 100' mark, do you begin to feel the apprehension, the fear of what happen that day? Do you continue to decend?
Why or why not?
Some other interesting stories, like diving with the newbies. I feel it's my responsibility, as a seasoned professional to to that. I owe it to them and
their future buddy. I like teaching and don't mind helping on the surface or underwater. Prevention is worth a .....
As for a story or two, I have some. One that comes to mind is when I was
at depth, oh maybe 130 and I enter a hole on a reef. This hole was almost 50
feet long. Another diver just enter before me. I was in maybe 15-20 feet,
when I felt the warm flush run through my body. I knew what that sign meant. I've had it before. It was narcosis. Now, I'm in a hole, it was leading upwards, but I was in a hole. I knew and said, I've got to ascend to eliviate the narcosis. I was a bit concerned, because I do not like narcosis. I new that if I could ascend, it would go away, but I had a person in front of me.
All I could think of was please move a little faster, I'm not feeling too good.
As soon as I could begin to see the end of the tunnel I noticed that I could exit one of two ways and they stop at the fork. I'm like please move NOW.
I still had my wits about me, but all the same, this hot flush of something was running through my body. I exited at about 80', layed faced down on the bottom until I got control. Ahhhhh. I felt better and continued the dive.

My worse experience, and in 28 years of diving, this is my personal worse,
I have been on a 7 day dive trip. I has doing a minimum of 4 - 5 dives a day.
Some down to 150 but most around the 90-100 foot range, with 50-60 in the late morning and late afternoons. I was on my 24th dive of the week. It was the first of four dives on my last day of diving. I was on Nitrox and down around 70-80 feet. My buddy was may 20 feet below me and 50 feet behind.
(an example of what not to do) when my whole body began to Zzzzzzzzz.
It was humming all over. I've never experienced that before. I signal to the DM that something is wrong but I"m OK and I'm going to ascend a bit. As I ascended, the humming, buzzing subsided. Kewl, I'll hand here, I'm still diving!
Then here it comes again... Bzzzzzzz all over my body, tingley all over..
i ascend some more, it stops.. Kewl, I'm still diving... Bzzzzzzzz, ***?
OK, time to get out. I signal the DM, that I'll attempt a safety stop then head to the boat. At the 15 or so foot mark, Bzzzzzzzzzzz, ***? I'm still breathing and I'm still diving.. to the surface I go. Only a 20 minute dive..
OK, I'm still alive...but I'm not diving..
The boat picks me up, I tell them what happen, we get to the dock and there they are, waiting for me.. to take me to the recompressional chamber
for a checkup and observation. That is when I got my lession on O2 toxicity.
I remember they mentioned something about it during my nitrox course... but
I just got first hand experience. I went on to learn more about it, understand it, how to use the formulas, and realized, there is more to time underwater than timing your No Decompression limit (nitrogen load) there Oxygen load too and one can reach it's limit before another.
It took that even for me to experience another phenomena of gases under pressure and time. Now I really like diving because it excited me in to learning more..
Because of the way the dive shop conducted themself, I was impressed and have been diving with them every year for over 10 years now.
Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it.