In the interest of not totally derailing another thread, I have broken away with this question:
I have heard that the hundredth dive is traditionally done naked, but really, has anyone here really done that?
Don't people get arrested for things like that? With photographic evidence forever following them on a google search?
TMHeimer
May 22nd, 2012, 01:36 PM
#s 100, 200 and next month 300 have all/will be done here in Nova Scotia. Naked not an option, though I probably wouldn't get arrested at some sites due to lack of population.
chrpai
May 22nd, 2012, 01:38 PM
If that's true (hardly) then I guess I'm long, long overdue...
SnorkelLA
May 22nd, 2012, 01:40 PM
Never once hear of that, and I'm in at my 211th dive...
NWGratefulDiver
May 22nd, 2012, 01:44 PM
Nobody would've dived with me if I'd done that ... trust me on that one. Besides, in Puget Sound, it'd have been an extremely short dive.
My advice would be go do your dive in the usual manner, then celebrate afterward with your friends ... it's an accomplishment, after all ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
Mark Derail
May 22nd, 2012, 01:46 PM
If you Google Image Search that, and turn off safe search, as a hetero-male you will be severely disappointed.
I say "urban legend", and would add that it only concerns warm ocean diving. TMHeimer (http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/members/tmheimer.html) are you then there yet?
Plus, how can I not post when someone uses my name as a verb?
shoredivr
May 22nd, 2012, 01:48 PM
Yes, not happening in the Great Lakes, either.
chrpai
May 22nd, 2012, 01:51 PM
I've seen people do it down in Jamaica and it's not a pretty sight.
Teamcasa
May 22nd, 2012, 01:56 PM
Maybe in Tahiti - Not likely in SoCal.
Wookie
May 22nd, 2012, 02:04 PM
It happens regularly on the Spree, or off the Spree as the case might be.
Mark Derail
May 22nd, 2012, 02:08 PM
It happens regularly on the Spree, or off the Spree as the case might be.
That it the best use of indirect publicity I ever saw on SB....nice!
Wookie
May 22nd, 2012, 02:14 PM
That it the best use of indirect publicity I ever saw on SB....nice!
That's what social networking is all about.....
dmeeve
May 22nd, 2012, 02:15 PM
it'd have been an extremely short dive
http://youtu.be/1cUNNKzj_Nc
decompression
May 22nd, 2012, 02:50 PM
Yes, really.
BluewaterSail
May 22nd, 2012, 02:52 PM
Yes, really.
So you did?
TCDiver1
May 22nd, 2012, 02:54 PM
This thread reminds me of the first time i saw someone, someone i didn't know, diving in their birthday suit. It was in Coz. Some dude from another group made it a point to swim by us displaying his junk. Not swimming in a normal face down attitude but rather swimming on his side with his package facing our group. Cracked me up to no end.
Takes all types to make this world go round i guess so knock yourself out if thats how you roll.
Zieg
May 22nd, 2012, 03:01 PM
Never heard of the 100th dive being traditional. No one should wait til their 100th. Go for it. As for you guys up north, I guess you're not as tough as you think.
Insta-Gator
May 22nd, 2012, 03:07 PM
I dive every dive nekked.
It's just hard to tell under my wetsuit. :D
BTW, saltwater fish have very large teeth. IJS
Scuba_Noob
May 22nd, 2012, 03:45 PM
Never heard of the 100th dive being traditional. No one should wait til their 100th. Go for it. As for you guys up north, I guess you're not as tough as you think.
Sure, some of us are tough, but we're not stupid. I'm not going to do an hour-long dive without a drysuit/wetsuit in six degree Celsius (43 degree Fahrenheit) water, unless I want hypothermia. I might not even last 10 minutes at that temperature.
Then again, I'm not one of the tough ones; I wouldn't even dive in a wetsuit here. Maybe if I were in Florida.
aceupmysleeve777
May 22nd, 2012, 03:51 PM
I was told that the 100th dive had to be done naked. Alot of instructors try to keep this alive. Did I do it no. I just seen a post this year of some newly cert. DM's doing the 100th dive naked in the Philippines with Threasher Shark Divers so it's something that is done.
Mark Derail
May 22nd, 2012, 04:02 PM
It's all about tradition.
Here's a new one.
I'll be sure to be in the nude for my 1,000th post. Ideally in the Whine & Cheese forum.
SC_Hoaty
May 22nd, 2012, 04:25 PM
It happens regularly on the Spree, or off the Spree as the case might be.
That it the best use of indirect publicity I ever saw on SB....nice!
That's what social networking is all about.....
"Dive the Spree - we put the Social in social networking!"
asha
May 22nd, 2012, 06:08 PM
I became aware of this tradition early on in my dive career. I was on a liveaboard in the GBR and there was a British crewmember on the boat celebrating his 100th. Looking back in my logbook, dive #31 (a night dive) simply says, "I saw a naked Englishman."
My 100th was in Maine. There was no way in hell.
I (and two buddies) did my #201 naked in Curacao, although I was repeatedly informed that using the crotch strap on my BP/W was "cheating." I think it was more out of whimsy than ritual, though. Certainly underscores the need for good spatial awareness buoyancy control when the lionfish are out and about in the dark.
RTee
May 22nd, 2012, 06:56 PM
My 100th dive was part of my drysuit course...for one it would have defeated the purpose and two, it was in 39F water. I did one of those commemorative dives on my last trip in Bonaire. Was diving as part of a group (friends) and had a hard time keeping my GF beside me as she always had the tendancy to drift back and then take pictures with the camera. Good incentive to keep your distance not only from marine life but also corals and sponges. Asha I know what you mean about the crotch strap. Another advantage of the Backplate over a traditional BCD however, it does very little for the torso area...:D
highdesert
May 22nd, 2012, 06:59 PM
There are some dive groups that do every dive of their week-long liveaboard sans suits of any kind (nope, we weren't aboard). Some of the dive guides adopt the same uniform. Yes, this is in warm Caribbean water.
Pullmyfinger
May 22nd, 2012, 07:10 PM
In the interest of not totally derailing another thread, I have broken away with this question:
I have heard that the hundredth dive is traditionally done naked, but really, has anyone here really done that?
Don't people get arrested for things like that? With photographic evidence forever following them on a google search?
I have heard of this diving naked on the 100th dive, usually by people that I probably don't want to see naked. haha!
There is photographic evidence of the maneuver who's name shall not be spoken....maybe that was some sort of 100th dive thing.
awap
May 22nd, 2012, 07:24 PM
With photographic evidence forever following them on a google search?
Could you provide links to the photos? :D
Wookie
May 22nd, 2012, 07:24 PM
There is photographic evidence of the maneuver who's name shall not be spoken....
Voldemort dives?
OzGriffo
May 22nd, 2012, 07:44 PM
If you Google Image Search that, and turn off safe search, as a hetero-male you will be severely disappointed.
I say "urban legend", and would add that it only concerns warm ocean diving. TMHeimer (http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/members/tmheimer.html) are you then there yet?
Plus, how can I not post when someone uses my name as a verb?
Lol. I went and typed in "100th dive" into google images BEFORE reading your post. The first image in the list it gave me was.. well i'm not sure if the other diver having their tank adjusted is male or female. I'm hoping the latter.
RonFrank
May 22nd, 2012, 08:27 PM
Yup dive #100 is a naked dive. Key West or anywhere in the Keys would be appropriate. :D
JTinSD
May 22nd, 2012, 08:49 PM
My 100th was on the 10 month anniversary of my OW certification and it was on the P-38 wreck off Torrey Pines in San Diego (http://www.cawreckdivers.org/Wrecks/P38.htm). It was part of my Deep Diver certification and my log shows max depth 123' and 50f temp. 12 minutes on the bottom. Not naked.
I did see someone do their 100th naked last year on a liveaboard in the Similans. He wore a neoprene sock, so not 100% naked at the start, but after the sock fell off he was in compliance with the tradition.
Quero
May 22nd, 2012, 09:49 PM
I've heard of it but never seen it. We tease our divers approaching their 100th with this "tradition" but we don't actually encourage them to follow through, and none of my divers ever has. Keep in mind, though, that I live and work on an island where it's considered uncouth to walk down the street in just swimwear or to go without a shirt any time you're not in the water (even when riding a motorbike) and where local women (other than sex workers) select swimwear that covers their bodies halfway to the knees (sometimes with little lycra skirts over lycra shorts), so maybe this "tradition" is really "not suited" (haha) to this place. I guess it might take place here on low-budget boats that cater to the backpacker clientele who are really not much attuned to local mores and care primarily about their own good time.
supergaijin
May 22nd, 2012, 10:35 PM
Yep- it's been done but it isn't done on a regular basis. There are a few celebrations like u/w champagne, fish chum in the BCD pockets, the WarHammer maneuver, as well as a naked dive to celebrate achievements or haze the new recruits, or just plain disgust people.
DevonDiver
May 23rd, 2012, 12:39 AM
Am I the only one thinking that 'once-upon-a-time' this started out as "narked dive"... a deep dive to celebrate experience.... but somehow got lost in translation over time?
;)
SC_Hoaty
May 23rd, 2012, 08:11 AM
Am I the only one ...
Probably :D
wrybosome
May 23rd, 2012, 08:45 AM
I heard that PilotFish did this in Bonaire and had his clothes stolen while he was down, igniting his Ahab-like quest.
SC_Hoaty
May 23rd, 2012, 08:55 AM
I heard that PilotFish did this in Bonaire and had his clothes stolen while he was down, igniting his Ahab-like quest.
Can I like this more than once? Priceless!
drbill
May 23rd, 2012, 09:49 AM
I know very few who did their 100th dive naked here in SoCal. Maybe in the tropics. That was so long ago for me that I can't even remember #100, but I do know I didn't do it naked... didn't want to scare away the fish!
heavierthanlead
May 23rd, 2012, 09:57 AM
'Talk about a wiggling worm fishing lure... :shakehead:
nolatom
May 23rd, 2012, 10:01 AM
Am I the only one thinking that 'once-upon-a-time' this started out as "narked dive"... a deep dive to celebrate experience.... but somehow got lost in translation over time?
;)
Ah. A new scuba term:
"Stark narked"
So, what to do with a stark narked diver? Put him in a hospital gown real quick, and bring him up 30 feet?
Scott
May 23rd, 2012, 11:21 AM
I will tease certain (liberal) students/buddies/divers about it. I have had only one in all the years that has actually bared it all and that was last year on Roatan. I have been informed by another that his 100th will happen while we are in Cozumel in a few weeks. Since he was witness to the previous encounter and will not be out [-]done[/-] performed by a female, I'm sure it will happen.
That will be one dive I will not be keeping a close eye on the entire group. :shocked2:
ipsc1911
May 23rd, 2012, 11:54 AM
I just completed my 100th dive and there was no naked diver. Even though my instructor and dive buddy said I "had" to. I figure that there would not be much diving going on if I did it naked! :blinking:
Abidon
May 23rd, 2012, 12:28 PM
I (and two buddies) did my #201 naked in Curacao, although I was repeatedly informed that using the crotch strap on my BP/W was "cheating." I think it was more out of whimsy than ritual, though. Certainly underscores the need for good spatial awareness buoyancy control when the lionfish are out and about in the dark.
I'm guessing the number of visitors to asha's profile has multiplied 10X in the last eighteen hours. :date:
Mark Derail
May 23rd, 2012, 01:39 PM
Guilty!
I'm guessing the number of visitors to asha's profile has multiplied 10X in the last eighteen hours. :date:
dwhthediver
May 23rd, 2012, 03:34 PM
Where I teach, we tease each other about having to do every multiple of a hundred naked, but with water temps around Chicago... never saw it done:-(
DennisS
May 23rd, 2012, 03:57 PM
I asked a bunch of my old bald beer bellied dive buddies about it and they never heard of it. I asked some attractive young ladies on the dive boat and they said they were told it was mandatory, everybody does it.:D
coldwaterlloyd
May 23rd, 2012, 05:06 PM
124934Getting ready for # 100
Bratface
May 23rd, 2012, 07:10 PM
Lots of people tease about it, but I don't want to be waiting in line for the naked diver to go up the ladder in front of me.
JamesK
May 23rd, 2012, 07:28 PM
I'm guessing the number of visitors to asha's profile has multiplied 10X in the last eighteen hours. :date:
Well now I have to look! LOL..
124934Getting ready for # 100
Disturbing. Highly disturbing.
Lots of people tease about it, but I don't want to be waiting in line for the naked diver to go up the ladder in front of me.
Well, at least you will get to see a starfish on the dive! :)
My 100th dive was a cave dive with my cave instructor and his late wife. I am not sure how well that would have went over. Imagine if something happened and you were a body recovery. I just could not do that to someone.
Now I am coming up on two new 100's. My 100th dive here in Cuba will be this weekend. My 100th SM dive will be next month it looks like. I really don't want to do it this weekend, as I am doing video for SUDS. Those guys have been through enough already, they don't need to deal with that. Now my SM dive.. HMMMM.
RTee
May 23rd, 2012, 07:53 PM
Am I the only one thinking that 'once-upon-a-time' this started out as "narked dive"... a deep dive to celebrate experience.... but somehow got lost in translation over time?
;)
Reminds me of the following joke: a younger monk is going through tthe underground hallways of the monastery in search of the old and wise monk. At one point he hears crying. He approached the area only to find the older monk in tears in front of old opened scripts. When asked about what seems to be the problem the old monk answered ''Something got lost in translation a long time ago...the word contained in the script is celebrate and not celibate''
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I'm guessing the number of visitors to asha's profile has multiplied 10X in the last eighteen hours. :date:
...and how many have noticed the butt naked sea lion by her side who does it all the time.
fisheater
May 23rd, 2012, 09:36 PM
Now my SM dive.. HMMMM.
Could add new meaning to the term "side mounting."
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awndray
May 23rd, 2012, 10:01 PM
In the interest of not totally derailing another thread, I have broken away with this question:
I have heard that the hundredth dive is traditionally done naked, but really, has anyone here really done that?
Don't people get arrested for things like that? With photographic evidence forever following them on a google search?
I've seen it done in Roatan.
Arrested? Why?
Doc
May 23rd, 2012, 10:24 PM
I've seen it done in Roatan.
I'll second that.
What most folks don't understand and realize is that Naked Dive 100 is just 1/10th of the required training dives working up to Nekkid Dive 1,000
As my Texas GF once said, naked is when you aren't wearing any clothes... Nekkid is where you're "up to something"
altaskier
May 23rd, 2012, 11:12 PM
Voldemort dives?
WarHammer maneuver dives... Appropriate for #1000, perhaps?
Ayisha
May 24th, 2012, 12:25 AM
A Toronto diver and member here, FreeFloat, did her 100th dive almost naked in our frigid water. She had a thread about her experience, which seems to be gone, but here's her buddy's perspective: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ontario-fresh-water-freaks/66982-98-99-almost-naked-100-a.html#post713858
BTW, I'm Ayisha, not Asha... No need to check... ;)
Whatevva
May 24th, 2012, 07:48 AM
I've snorkled naked, never diving, but my 100th will be naked in Jamaica, I guarantee that.
....and I'm surprised that PADI hasn't come up with a cert card, to sell us, for doing it!!!
SC_Hoaty
May 24th, 2012, 08:03 AM
....and I'm surprised that PADI hasn't come up with a cert card, to sell us, for doing it!!!
With important educational information like choosing sunscreen that doesn't wash off, and not damaging the reef with "danglies."
RTee
May 25th, 2012, 06:17 PM
A Toronto diver and member here, FreeFloat, did her 100th dive almost naked in our frigid water. She had a thread about her experience, which seems to be gone, but here's her buddy's perspective: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ontario-fresh-water-freaks/66982-98-99-almost-naked-100-a.html#post713858
BTW, I'm Ayisha, not Asha... No need to check... ;) What better place to do it ...the Rothesay where the vis seems to always be atrocious.
Willar
May 25th, 2012, 10:58 PM
Yes, I've seen it several times in Jamaica. 85F water makes it easier. I was lucky enough to follow a pretty young lady who decided to go natural. I volunteered to be the trailing diver for the inexperienced group. Her frog kick was quite interesting!
phuonguyen
May 26th, 2012, 07:04 AM
I did mine, just before my DM theory exams... and my buddies who went through the DM course with me promised to do theirs at a later date because we had an evaluation soon..... they haven't done it yet.
BTW I did it in 18 degrees (Celsius) which is cold from where I am!
LeafyGirl
May 26th, 2012, 07:25 PM
Yes, can confirm it's done in Roatan. Don't see it happening in the Florida Keys!
sparky923
May 26th, 2012, 08:40 PM
A co-workers son just interned w/ Subway in Roatan and he swears that it's a tradition there.
JOHNNY ROCKET
May 27th, 2012, 09:29 PM
Fish - "Oh look, it's a worm!"
bilsant
May 28th, 2012, 11:18 PM
Not dangling anything, thanks.
I once had a pufferfish try to take my thumb off....
currier
May 29th, 2012, 01:22 AM
I first heard of the tradition in Thailand, and when I brought it up with my instructor in Taiwan, he just sorta chuckled and shrugged.
Didn't do it myself, and likely never will ...
To each their own! If your buddies are as comfortable with it as you are, then "go nuts" !!!
Sly New Girl
May 29th, 2012, 01:55 AM
I haven't seen any naked divers around here. Thank god! The hot springs is full of people who shouldn't be naked and I avoid it like the plague. On the other hand, I haven't seen anyone who doesn't look 007 in scuba gear.
Qnape
May 29th, 2012, 11:25 AM
I was at a particular dive resort in the caribbean last year where the rather (much) larger than average female DM explained to the dozen or so divers on our boat that she dives naked every 400 dives. She then proceeded to pass around a photo album showing several images of her last 400th dive (her 4000th, she stated) to everyone. Yikes!
fisheater
May 29th, 2012, 01:59 PM
I was at a particular dive resort in the caribbean last year where the rather (much) larger than average female DM explained to the dozen or so divers on our boat that she dives naked every 400 dives. She then proceeded to pass around a photo album showing several images of her last 400th dive (her 4000th, she stated) to everyone. Yikes!
Pretty sure that's the same one who explained to me that she loved the effect of buoyancy on her breasts. "Better than surgery," she explained. Oh, best not to be on her boat on your birthday.
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Garth
May 29th, 2012, 02:48 PM
I was at a particular dive resort in the caribbean last year where the rather (much) larger than average female DM explained to the dozen or so divers on our boat that she dives naked every 400 dives. She then proceeded to pass around a photo album showing several images of her last 400th dive (her 4000th, she stated) to everyone. Yikes!
Where is this? :-)
JOHNNY ROCKET
May 29th, 2012, 07:45 PM
Talk about an awkward moment!
stormtrooper505
June 1st, 2012, 01:38 PM
.....an extremely short dive.
Haha..;)
azwarian
June 2nd, 2012, 09:52 PM
it was a weekly tradition when i worked in koh tao - the best was watching my friend fend off a great barracuda on a night dive lol very entertaining indeed
CCRDolphinDiver
June 2nd, 2012, 10:46 PM
Where I come from it was tradition to jump off of the top deck of the dive boat in your birthday suit. In 40-50F water it would be a very short dive. The question is would there be any air left in the cylinder even after a 5 minute dive?
MrsBBC
June 4th, 2012, 12:58 AM
Decided against making my 100th dive a naked dive as it was also a night dive... and really... it's only a tradition/encouraged amongst young warm water divers and gap year divers.
Grateful that I decided to keep my clothes on, as my buddy (not her 100th dive) was stung by an unidentified jellyfish on our ascent to the safety stop. Thought she was stung again at around 3-5m so we skipped the stop and came straight up. A few mins back on the boat and she went in to shock.
Had I been naked and also been stung during the ascent, it could have ended a lot worse. We were the last pair to surface as it was.
