Scuba

[SkAoUt]

Any divers around?

Padi, CMAS, SSI etc...

Padi Advanced with nitrox here.

Just got back into it after a 4 year hiatus.


If any of you have an interesting tale to tell of your adventures under water, in Poseidon's realm, do tell.

 

[islandman]

Padi.

3-year hiatus. Last dive was Vieques.

 

[blunt_trauma]

i'm too much of a scaredycat to dive.
there are millions of reasons.
here is just one.
http://www.fishingfury.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/diver_and_jellyfish.jpg

 

[Frizzle_Fry]

Padi advanced

Last dive- Indonesia

 

[mark197205]

Not a diver, but would like to be..

 

[koalabear]

Paddy Advanced
Adrenalin
Last dive Viet Nam.

 

[warrior queen]

PADI 3, but declared medicaly unfit so haven't dived in many years.
Blew both eardrums while (of all things) spinnaker-flying in Rodriguez and they scarred badly when healing.
And now my life has changed a bit, so I haven't attempted the medical for over 18 years.
Sold everything 17yrs ago.

 

[SkAoUt]

i'm too much of a scaredycat to dive.
there are millions of reasons.
here is just one.
http://www.fishingfury.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/diver_and_jellyfish.jpg

A girl in my dive "group" got stung by something resembling a jellyfish tentacle. Lots of blisters and some pain. Doused in a bit of vinegar she was good to go after our surface interval.

I saw the same thing that wrapped around her arm in a different part of the Andaman Sea on a drift dive. Luckily our group somehow avoided it. I did get stung by something on another dive in the area but it was so minor it just left some red welts.

Never mind me mentioning almost putting my hand on a tiny scorpion fish that was well and truly camouflaged on a bit of wreck. All in all I'm not too shabbily making myself out to be one of the clumsiest divers around. Amazed I can even co-ordinate breathing under there....

 

[blunt_trauma]

scorpion fish sound not good.
have you ever considered bird watching instead?
not many scorpion fish in summer meadows.
or sharks.
or little things that have disproportionately big teeth.

 

[blunt_trauma]

also,

MUFF diver. advanced. with fingers.
(you guys are slacking)

 

[rosco rathbone]

A girl in my dive "group" got stung by something resembling a jellyfish tentacle. Lots of blisters and some pain. Doused in a bit of vinegar she was good to go after our surface interval.

I saw the same thing that wrapped around her arm in a different part of the Andaman Sea on a drift dive. Luckily our group somehow avoided it. I did get stung by something on another dive in the area but it was so minor it just left some red welts.

Never mind me mentioning almost putting my hand on a tiny scorpion fish that was well and truly camouflaged on a bit of wreck. All in all I'm not to shabbily making myself out to be one of the clumsiest divers around. Amazed I can even co-ordinate breathing under there....

Yeah, funk that. The venomous sea life gives me the willies big time. Not to mention that video I saw of divers feeding horse heads to devil fish in the sea of cortez. I'll be in the bar, watching with binocs.

 

[blunt_trauma]

Yeah, funk that. The venomous sea life gives me the willies big time. Not to mention that video I saw of divers feeding horse heads to devil fish in the sea of cortez. I'll be in the bar, watching with binocs.

and if god had meant us to dive, he would not have made some clever bugger invent aquariums.

 

[warrior queen]

Yeah, funk that. The venomous sea life gives me the willies big time. Not to mention that video I saw of divers feeding horse heads to devil fish in the sea of cortez. I'll be in the bar, watching with binocs.

Heh - I once had a banded coral snake slide into my wetsuit through the neck.
My dive buddy very carefully opened my zipper so I could loosen the chest part of the suit.
Never got bit, he must have been just curious, and after about a minute he slithered out around the back.
Certainly gave me a major case of the willies!

 

[islandman]

PADI 3, but declared medicaly unfit so haven't dived in many years.
Blew both eardrums while (of all things) spinnaker-flying in Rodriguez and they scarred badly when healing.
And now my life has changed a bit, so I haven't attempted the medical for over 18 years.
Sold everything 17yrs ago.

Rodrigues or Rodriguez?

 

[o_so_wet]

Padi Open Water - last dive Bonaire, Dutch Antilles
Deepest Dive - 192 ft.
Coolest Siting - Coral Spawning

 

[Scentofawoman]

Basic Padi - last dive on vacation in the Bahamas

 

[Scentofawoman]

A girl in my dive "group" got stung by something resembling a jellyfish tentacle. Lots of blisters and some pain. Doused in a bit of vinegar she was good to go after our surface interval.

I saw the same thing that wrapped around her arm in a different part of the Andaman Sea on a drift dive. Luckily our group somehow avoided it. I did get stung by something on another dive in the area but it was so minor it just left some red welts.

Never mind me mentioning almost putting my hand on a tiny scorpion fish that was well and truly camouflaged on a bit of wreck. All in all I'm not to shabbily making myself out to be one of the clumsiest divers around. Amazed I can even co-ordinate breathing under there....

You reminded me of the first time we went for a live dive out of the pool. It was in a old mine they filled up with water outside Findley, OH. I think most Midwest divers know where that is. My dive partner for the day was a real jerk of a guy. I forgot to put my hair back, and I submerged faster then him. The jerk then kicked off my mask. So I cleared my mask, untangled it from my hair, and went to join a the group. I was just floating there watching the instructor and he kept looking at me giving me the "OK" sign. I kept signaling "OK" he just looking at me and I him. Then I felt a tugging at my tanks. It was my instructor. I had gotten turned around in the water and I joined another group. Since I was the only girl at the time, my long hair made it easy for them to keep an eye on me from then on.

 

[KRCummings]

PADI but haven't dived in at least 7 or 8 years.

 

[trysail]

also,

MUFF diver. advanced. with fingers.
(you guys are slacking)

C'mon! That's too easy.


I was just hanging around waiting to see who would pick up the loose change.

 

[Quoll]

Well if no one else is going to...

Paddy, on my mother's side, but way back before the first fleet.

 

[SkAoUt]

Heh - I once had a banded coral snake slide into my wetsuit through the neck.
My dive buddy very carefully opened my zipper so I could loosen the chest part of the suit.
Never got bit, he must have been just curious, and after about a minute he slithered out around the back.
Certainly gave me a major case of the willies!

Saw a bunch of banded coral sea snakes. Was reading up on them between dives and the book mentioned that their venom is 20 times more deadly than a cobra. BUT their fangs are so far back in their mouth its almost impossible to get bit. Still, your tale has given me pause.

also,

MUFF diver. advanced. with fingers.
(you guys are slacking)

Two in the pink one in the stink?

Padi Open Water - last dive Bonaire, Dutch Antilles
Deepest Dive - 192 ft.
Coolest Siting - Coral Spawning

Heh heh. A bit deep for your rec rating? Were you using a rebreather or what?

 

[Bert Notorius]

A couple guys got me stoned in Key West, strapped a tank on my back and threw me into the Gulf of Mexico. That has to count for something.

 

[blunt_trauma]

Two in the pink one in the stink?

eeeeeeeeeew! that's just nasty.

 

[IndieSnob]

I consider myself a professional diver of skin, sky & muff.

 

[SkAoUt]

I honestly thought more of you would have interesting underwater stories to share.

Maybe I wasn't welcoming enough on my initial post.