Does anything about diving spook you?

[PinayDiver]

Backrolling into the water, I hate the sound of sudden freeflow (because no one wants their air wasted that way).

During a dive, I've been
- startled by dive buddies caught by surprise themselves (ex. I once had this dramatic moment of holding out my hand and finning after an assigned buddy who tumbled off during a drift dive even as she frantically searched for a reef hook in her bc pockets);
- occasionally appalled by DMs with strange ways (one had us finning against the current the entire dive and still we missed the site);
- and horrified by how a surge during a night dive (a storm was then whipping the surface) nearly slammed me into a bed of sea urchins (I had a vision of being a human pin cushion).

While waiting for my turn to get back on the boat, at different times, I've been spooked by: jelly fish, an anchor drop, propeller blades starting to turn.

[acelockco]

- occasionally appalled by DMs with strange ways (one had us finning against the current the entire dive and still we missed the site);

- and horrified by how a surge during a night dive (a storm was then whipping the surface) nearly slammed me into a bed of sea urchins (I had a vision of being a human pin cushion).

While waiting for my turn to get back on the boat, at different times, I've been spooked by: jelly fish, an anchor drop, propeller blades starting to turn.

Sounds like you need to find a different dive operator. The DM should be smarter than that, they should call off a dive when a storm is whipping at the surface, and under no circumstances should they be dropping an anchor or starting the prop. blades when divers are in the water!!!!! This is REALLY bad!

[PinayDiver]

Sounds like you need to find a different dive operator. The DM should be smarter than that, they should call off a dive when a storm is whipping at the surface, and under no circumstances should they be dropping an anchor or starting the prop. blades when divers are in the water!!!!! This is REALLY bad!

All these happened on out-of-town dives with various dive operators assigning a local DM to us for the day.

We were actually more exasperated with the DM who had us finning against the current the entire dive for nothing (we asked for another DM on the very next dive) than with the DM we were with when the storm hit (there was no sign of it when we entered the water, and he made sure we – although shivering miserably, overcoming the joy of having seen seahorses that night – got back to shore, broken outrigger and all.

As for the anchor and propeller incidents (admittedly the stuff of nightmares), both times, it was the DM who gave the boatmen a dressing-down.

I guess out-of-town DMs are in a way similar to dive buddies assigned on-the-spot...in the sense that they can be trusted to generally either exceed or fall short of expectations (human nature comes into play). Like you guys stress here, the important thing is to be self-accountable/responsible (ah, yes, she knows the lesson in all these, lol).

[littleleemur]

At 135ft & still being sucked down a 350ft wall and not being able to swim out of it, weights already out & my BC's lift already maximized.

Luckily my buddy caught up at 140-ish, made use of his overlarge BC, overlarge mass ( ) & helped me out of it. Once I get my new (bigger) BC, he's swapping his in for his correct (smaller) size

Other than really strong currents I can't swim out of, nothing else spooks me in the water.

[acelockco]

What?

How is that?

[Papa Bear]

The fear of not diving! Being out of the water too long! I just had one of the worst ear infections ever and it almost kept me out of the water! Oh no, nit that!!!!! So I dived anyway! Covered my ears with Lycra and Neoprene took Sipro and went diving!

[lars2923]

Have you ever dived with low visibility?
See the perceived shadow of an object or a creature just out of sight and visibility?
Ever wonder if what you are believing to see is something really there and
if it is something will it be some large unknown creature never seen before
that will inhale you into its mouth.

These are just some of the things that run through my mind while diving.

That's spooky.

[littleleemur]

Ace,
Something about my displacement vs. mass in the water. The current really like me

On the brightside, I do have the most awesome drift dives

Papa Bear, we have a lot of Braille diving here too

[acelockco]

Something you are doing is not right, that is for sure. If you drop your weights, you should go to the surface without any air in your BC, let alone if you fill your BC.

I think I found your problem.....you are a rock, like granite or marble. That is why you don't use any air and you still sink without any weights and a BC full of air.

[lottie]

propeller blades starting to turn.

I had something similar to that when I was doing my OW - we were in the house reef and a boat went close by us...luckily we'd (my instructor and I) noticed it, so were able to get right down on the sand and stay away.
Even though we had a Diver down float, it seemed the boat didn't even notice it. Suffice to say, my instructor had a quiet word with the guys on the boat, to be aware that there are divers in the waters.