How often do you laugh?

[blackvans1234]

Since the purpose of scuba diving is for fun (we're not getting paid are we?- if so, tell them to wire me my pay), how often do you laugh while diving?
I'm very much in the infancy of my diving career, and also am that person that laughs at just about everything, so for me it has been every time i've been using SCUBA

(maybe it's just because i've been in a pool with a bunch of uncert'd invalids trying to learn basic skills, but whatever the case, its hilarious!)

[knowone]

I'm supposed to be serious, for any onlookers (people like you)
so I laugh internally with a wry smile to avoid my mask leaking

except when I'm running low on nitrox or lost before I'm found

[fisheater]

A lot.

[g2]

Good question! I laugh every dive!

Yesterday I got into a tug-of-war match with a very large crawdad. We were fighting over a Matchbox car. Mine. Mine.

I was laughing so hard bubbles were coming out of my mask.
:D

[Krazytomdiver]

As a dive guide,I "usually" get some sort of compensation for diving. (PLEASE) Customers comment I talk/laugh too much but I'm doing what I truely love. As long as safety is not compromised,having fun IS what diving is all about. Everytime I say: 'I've seen it all' someone or some stiuation occurs leaving me with side splitting entertainment. Dive safe,have fun!

"living life without a hard bottom"
KT

[freewillie]

I haven't had any occasion to laugh, but I always enjoy myself when I dive.

I did a snorkel with my daughter once. I found out later weren't really supposed to feed the fish, but they were selling the 'approved eco friendly' food at the scuba/snorkel desk at the hotel. We went out little ways on the reef, opened the pack and were instantly surrounded by fish. My daughter was holding the bag, kept shaking out food every once and a while, and had this whole big school of fish around her. I was close enough to hear her giggling in her snorkel! safe to say she was having fun. :D

[MrsBBC]

The first and probably only time that I have laughed uncontrollably underwater was the first time I saw a slingjaw wrasse sling its jaw.

Other than that, I regularly find myself smiling and laughing underwater, usually at my buddy, or defensive clownfish.

Nic

[MaxBottomtime]

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[TMHeimer]

I never laugh. Looking to collect shells is serious business.

[TSandM]

I've only outright laughed a few times in the last six years -- watching a cabezon about 18 inches long furiously attacking a 240 lb man was one of those times.

But I smile a lot..

[Dirty-Dog]

Being fun is not the same as being funny.
But I do smile almost constantly, and have found a number of reasons to laugh. Having a nurse shark swim up and put her nose in contact with the camera lens, for example. Or realising that I was penetrating the C-58 while still swearing my bucket hat.

[kazbanz]

How can you not laugh underwater? Hey I apreciate its a dangerous thing we are doing but its just outright FUN. I just can't help laughing at myself being a kid again.

[g2]

Chasing fish like I'm a klutzy flounder or coming eye-to-eye with a giant octopus. Slipping a biscuit into my buddy's BC pocket before a dive (have you tried this? Fish will love 'em!). Almost peeing my wetsuit when confronted by a 4m tiger shark. Flying side-by-side with a manta. Finding a 150 year old bottle with an baby octopus in it. And most especially, the sheer joy of being weightless and moving in three dimensions.

All these things cause me to grin from ear to ear and outright laugh on almost every dive.

[makochum]

I don't always laugh but I do always have fun

[g1138]

Many funny moments.

Few examples:
- Watching 2 instructors gang up on my fellow DM and inflate her wetsuit during a pool sesh. Everyone was laughing.
- Another time I tried to duck under a lane line with an inflated BC. Almost made it until my first stage got caught. I ended up flopping to the surface, laughed out loud underwater and then came up to see the entire class laughing at me.
- Semi-related story, my friend was TA-ing a pool sesh with me and decided to tuck dive to the 6 ft bottom to retrieve a weight he dropped. He didn't deflate his BC. Lots of splashing and kicking ensued and a good 20 seconds later he finally turned back up, weight in hand. The entire class had no idea what he was doing until he came back up. I've never seen my instructor laugh so hard before. My friends response was: "What? I was too lazy to deflate...."


And that's only a piece of the cake. I could go on forever. xD

[WaterV]

I guess I'm just a very happy nature because I laugh almost every dive... The last very good laugh I had (couldn't stop laughing) was in early April, we were diving in a canal that had just thawed. The fishes all looked drunk, you could touch them easily (carefully) and they would not even run away. There was this salamander at the bottom, on its back moving as if it was scratching its back on the muddy bottom. It was HILARIOUS (and no, we were not narced, the depth is 30' at the very very bottom) ;-)

[daz88]

just depends who I'm diving with. Got a couple of buddies I dive with that not matter what....something happens while we're down there and a start cracking up and blowing bubbles. our air just doesn't seem to last as long when we dive together. :)