What is your biggest Fear in diving?

[wadedeeper]

So I know that the #1 fear everyone seems to have when they first come to class is SHARKS! However, I'm curious how many out there fear them or some other creature. For me, I am scared to death of Humbolt Squid or any large squid-like creature...all because of a VERY bad night dive in La Paz that ruined me for life...stupid squid fisherman.

Yet I have been swimming with many different species of sharks without incident...including even a great white...though by accident and not in a cage...and hopefully never again.

I think its interesting to hear what fears people have and why as it can help the rest of us make smarter decisions for our dives...like not diving around squid fishermen in La Paz at night...or carry an extra set of cutters or shears because you got caught up in fishing line or cables...etc.

Of my dive buddies:
one fears fishing line because he got caught up in it pretty bad and dropped his only knife...thus why he carries at least 2 no matter what now and makes sure his dive buddy is close at hand.
2 are scared of running out of air (one did by sheer stupidity and the other had a free flow that dumped his air) now one carries a pony and the other dives with a steel 100 vs my steel 80.
the rest either are scared of sharks, or some other creature...or decline to tell me.

I don't mean to scare anyone with the topic...I just find it interesting to hear and think others might like to know that they aren't alone either....

 

[LeadTurn_SD]

My biggest fear:

Not getting to dive.

All the other phobias related to breathing compressed gas underwater pale in significance

Well, ok, here are my nagging little voices I try to tune out pre-dive: Entanglement, injury, equipment failure, unwanted sealife encounters.... or all of those happening at once

I still get butterflies as I take that 1st breath underwater.... and the joy upon realizing I can actually breath underwater is just as great as it was when I began diving, and silences all my fears and phobias (until the next dive ).

Best wishes.

 

[Diver0001]

Propellers.

R..

 

[bracko]

great whites and being left at sea.

equipment failure isn't a huge concern of mine, logically the chances of at least 2 people's gear failing at the same time is not even worth calculating the odds.

 

[tstormdiver]

Strange as it seems,.... drowning. It is not a fear that is overwhelming nor leads to panic,... in fact , I have rather come to terms that it IS a possibility. I do not fear the water, but rather respect it. When I dive I realize I am not in my natural environment & without my equipment functioning properly, I would not last very long.

 

[matts1w]

Propellers.

R..

Agreed.

 

[marcopalla]

...that something goes wrong and a
certified PADI/EVERYTHING Rescue Diver comes :nailbiter::nailbiter:
and even touches me! :signofcross::signofcross:

just joking,
no fears underwater, at least not more then outside the water.

 

[dkktsunami]

Transportation to the dive site - air planes, crowded airports, being treated like livestock, and driving down I - 95.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

incompetent dive buddies. Probably why on vacation I look for ops that let me dive solo if I'm not with someone I know.

 

[DCBC]

Taken by the current (on my way to Ireland)