Gawdawfull noises

[yui]

The sound your teeth make when you bite synthetic yarn (sub-sonic or something, because it's more felt than heard). Oy! Oy! My jaw is locking just thinking about it!

Static, constant noise, makes me crazy, too.

 

[Randi Grail]

The sound your teeth make when you bite synthetic yarn

The sound your teeth make when you bite off parts of them. You know, that crunching that

just
shouldn't
be
there

and you know something just went very wrong in there.

 

[SeaCat]

Re: Re: Gawdawfull noises

I never heard my regulator sing. Were you suffering from nitrogen narcosis?

I loved suffering from nitrogen narcosis. It was the only time I was ever glad to have the company of a group down there. I felt bulletproof, like a dangerous drunk but in a passive way. Wanted to take out the regulator and laugh.

This was on a dive at Andros Island billed as "The Narcosis Express." There wasn't much sealife at Andros, lots of blue holes and shallow caverns where on the trip back up you could watch your own bubbles beginning to emerge from the rock that was now below you. That was cool. But there was not much life and color.

So they offered this 185-foot dive for the foolish called the Narcosis Express. I was nervous about the depth until we were at about 100 feet and then someone flipped a switch and I was the happiest woman on the planet and thinking, "This is the easiest thing in the world. I was worried about this? Woo-Woo!" Then the dive master gestured to everybody to gather around a crevice in the wall, where there might be an eel or something, and when he had our attention he pulled out a rubber chicken.

Then he shook it at us.

I don't know how many drownings take place because of that chicken. They keep it hushed-up somehow. I was laughing - we all were laughing - into our regulators so hard that we sounded like tubas. Is that what you mean by "singing?"

No?

I didn't think so.

It's not easy to laugh underwater via forced exhalation through a regulator. I think some air came out of my ears.

Edited to add: I do not endorse the 185 foot dive as a way to find things funny. I had some symptoms of decompression sickness the next day including a scary few hours of blurred vision. Try the rubber chicken at a shallower depth, and if it's not funny there, take one along the next time you see your dentist and ask for nitrous oxide. Same feeling.

Singing Regulators, (Sounds like a band out of Key West doesn't it?) are older regulatotrs that have been used enough that some parts have become slightly loose in the first stage. The tend to vibrate with the passage of air over them. It can also be caused in a second stage by the diaphragm vibrating slightly when you exhale. (The first stage will usually vibrate at lower p.s.i.)

Never been narced even though I have been down to 125fsw a couple of times. In a way I'm kind of happy it hasn't hit me.

Did you receive treatment for your hit?

Cat

 

[nushu2]

Two months ago, I was forced to move because a Vietnamese karaoke moved in below me. They don't really serve cat, it just sounds that way.

 

[cloudy]

the sound of my husband's truck pulling in the driveway - every muscle in my body goes to red alert instantly.....not in a good way.

 

[yui]

the sound of my husband's truck pulling in the driveway - every muscle in my body goes to red alert instantly.....not in a good way.

Hypervigilance just makes your soul tired after a while. I wish you peace and a safe harbor, cloudy.

Luck,

Yui

 

[cloudy]

Hypervigilance just makes your soul tired after a while. I wish you peace and a safe harbor, cloudy.

Luck,

Yui

Thanks, sweetheart, but I'm past tired and heading to "I give up"

 

[SeaCat]

Thanks, sweetheart, but I'm past tired and heading to "I give up"

Hugs


Cat

 

[fairysong]

the sound of my husband's truck pulling in the driveway - every muscle in my body goes to red alert instantly.....not in a good way.

oh now thats not good . Hope things get better for you. Lots of hugs coming your way.

 

[English Lady]

*more hugs for cloudy*


Thesound of clocks ticking. I don'teven notice it in the day but if I'm trying tosleep it drives me batty. When I had an alarm clock thatticked I used to put it inside mychest of drawers so I couldn't hear it.

 

[done_got_old]

Two things come to mind.........
squeaking chalk on a blackboard and of course fingernails on the chalkboard........ very effective attention getter however

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Re: Gawdawfull noises

Singing Regulators, (Sounds like a band out of Key West doesn't it?) are older regulatotrs that have been used enough that some parts have become slightly loose in the first stage. The tend to vibrate with the passage of air over them. It can also be caused in a second stage by the diaphragm vibrating slightly when you exhale. (The first stage will usually vibrate at lower p.s.i.)

Never been narced even though I have been down to 125fsw a couple of times. In a way I'm kind of happy it hasn't hit me.

Did you receive treatment for your hit?

Cat

No, it didn't immediately occur to me that the blurred vision was dive-related. It should have, I know, but I thought I had just got too much salt water contact or something. If it had lasted for more than a few hours, I'd have had to do something. Eyes watering, couldn't focus on anything. Later someone told me it was a symptom of decompression sickness and that I'd been an idiot to dive to that depth. "Yes, I know, but the chicken was amazing! It was worth the risk."