Mike Boswell
Contributor
The dumbest thing I ever saw was a diver who was in a hurry to try out his brand new BP/W. He first anchored the boat so that it drifted into a thick blanket of kelp but didn't feel like taking the time to fix that little problem.
He then rigged up his BP/W and turned on the tank valve, forgot to zip up his wetsuit or his booties, turned "on" the tank valve a second time, yelled at his wife/dive buddy to hurry up. His wife was flustered and they didn't do their normal buddy check.
He went over the side backwards into a thick blanket of kelp with his air turned off and no air in his BCD.
He came up gasping, tangled in kelp, with his weight belt slipped down around his ankles, his wetsuit flooded with freezing water, and his booties unzipped and fins flopping around uselessly.
That diver was me. And I knew better.
He then rigged up his BP/W and turned on the tank valve, forgot to zip up his wetsuit or his booties, turned "on" the tank valve a second time, yelled at his wife/dive buddy to hurry up. His wife was flustered and they didn't do their normal buddy check.
He went over the side backwards into a thick blanket of kelp with his air turned off and no air in his BCD.
He came up gasping, tangled in kelp, with his weight belt slipped down around his ankles, his wetsuit flooded with freezing water, and his booties unzipped and fins flopping around uselessly.
That diver was me. And I knew better.