Favorite Scuba Phrases

[santafejoe]

:goingdown: DSDO = Dive Safe Dive Often

 

[bowlofpetunias]

Hahahaha... "Here's your sign." LOL!

I always respond to them with, "Nope. I'm a ninja. I dress like this everywhere I go. Ha-HA (and throw a couple of fake karate moves)."

Sounds even funnier with a Southern accent.

Nope.. not as dumb as "Were you diving? Did you scuba dive? or variations of those" We usually get asked this when we are in full gear, dripping wet heading to the car park from the dive site Answer... "nope... No idea why but every time I go for my hike wearing this outfit I tend to sweat a lot:shocked2:!"

"The gas in your tank is your life expectancy."

"If you lose the line, you have the rest of your life to find it."

"Dive to stay found."

I hang out with a lot of people who can turn a phrase.

Those are great

 

[Atomic_Diver]

Nitrogen Narcossis is for christmas, Oxygen Toxicity is for life.

 

[kaerius]

(from one of my instructors): Life is hard and then you dive.

 

[Rhone Man]

Great thread. Reminds me when a veteran tec diver told the DM how deep they were planning to go, and was asked if he had was sure that they had enough gas to "go that deep".

"Oh sure," comes the reply. "I'm just not whether we have enough gas to get back up again."

 

[pelagic_by_nature]

So far my favorite is:
The number one rule in scuba is "don't do anything stupid"

 

[Tortuga68]

"You're gonna die if you >insert phrase here<" (in case no-one mentioned it before)


I also love getting asked when walking between the dive shop and the boat:

"Want to buy necklace/watch/Viagra?"

"Do I look like I have my wallet with me?"

 

[DiveDocMD]

A divemaster in Turks and Caicos commented when a dive pair from our boat surfaced several hundred yards away from the boat......"Well look, its Ranger and Scout! Should we make them do the S.O.S.?"

"What's that?"

The "Swim of Shame"

 

[HBO MD]

"This is almost foll proof...that's where you come in."

 

[HBO MD]

See what I mean? Let's try that again.

"This is almost fool proof ; that's where you come in."