Funny diving stories for the book I should write....

[cvchief]

Am I the only one who has numerous times gone to the back of the boat and started gearing up with hat, sunglasses and no mask?

 

[Basscat]

Am I the only one who has numerous times gone to the back of the boat and started gearing up with hat, sunglasses and no mask?

Probably

 

[Darol]

I remember vividly the biker couple who asked if it was ok to smoke, and the DM said sure, just go to the back of the boat.
So they did and lit up a joint.......:hippy:

 

[fishi]

On a dive boat in Turks & Caicos I noticed a women across from me organizing some small glass vials. She was to far away to ask what they were for so I continued to set up my tank and didn't think to much about it. The Turks & Caicos is known for its vivid turquoise waters. Later in the week I herd her plan was to go around to different spots and fill the vials with different colors of water. She actually thought that the water would be different shades of blue.

 

[Karibelle]

I had an OW student doing dive number 3 at Chankanaab... we did a nice giant stride off the back of the boat, but as we descended, his mask flooded and flooded and flooded... it kept doing that until I reached over, pulled it up and took his glasses off.

 

[Christi]

On a dive boat in Turks & Caicos I noticed a women across from me organizing some small glass vials. She was to far away to ask what they were for so I continued to set up my tank and didn't think to much about it. The Turks & Caicos is known for its vivid turquoise waters. Later in the week I herd her plan was to go around to different spots and fill the vials with different colors of water. She actually thought that the water would be different shades of blue.

fishi - this was the next one I was going to share!!! I wonder if she was the same woman on my boat a couple of years ago - hahah! She asked everyone on the boat not to crunch their water bottles up when they were finished. She said she needed 4 - 5 empty bottles. When someone asked her why, she said she wanted to take back bottles of each colored water to show everyone back home!!!!! Hahahah!

The next day, Pedro obliged her - and had the boat captain stop at each "color" of water on the way out to fill her bottles. Finally after 3, she said - but they are all the same color - CLEAR! The boat busted out laughing and then she realized how silly her idea was - she laughed and was actually a great sport about it! She was an accomplished diver, but had never been in such clear blue water before

Kari - I love that one too!

 

[LoveOceanicGears]

After getting the OW certification, I was pretty excited to do a fun dive with instructor and his wife, and cannot stop talking with instructor while putting on my 7mm wetsuit.

Before I put on my gear, instructor's wife quietly told me: "You wear your wetsuit inside out..."

On a deep/wreck diving training class, one guy was late and he literally threw his gear and himself into the boat as boat was leaving.

When donning up gears, he realized he forgot his integrated pressure gauge/computer. He only has a wrist watch with depth gauge only.

He insisted he can dive w/o knowing how much air in the tank because he uses very little air. Instructor pulled him to side and refused his request.

 

[nimoh]

fishi - this was the next one I was going to share!!! I wonder if she was the same woman on my boat a couple of years ago - hahah! She asked everyone on the boat not to crunch their water bottles up when they were finished. She said she needed 4 - 5 empty bottles. When someone asked her why, she said she wanted to take back bottles of each colored water to show everyone back home!!!!! Hahahah!

The next day, Pedro obliged her - and had the boat captain stop at each "color" of water on the way out to fill her bottles. Finally after 3, she said - but they are all the same color - CLEAR! The boat busted out laughing and then she realized how silly her idea was - she laughed and was actually a great sport about it!

Kari - I love that one too!

if she took pictures of the different water colors and taped them to the back of the bottles, then she would have something to show everyone back home

 

[Christi]

Back in the days when I was personally diving almost everyday, before my DCS incident - we pulled up to the no name pier, south of Playa Palancar for the surface interval. There were several other boats there of course and I see a woman getting off of a friend/fellow operator's boat with a pink, wool like sweater, sweatpants and a shorty over the top - dripping wet as if she had been pushed in with her clothes on.

I looked at my friend like ????WTH is the story here? He said - "DON'T ASK! hahahahah!"

A few days later, I ran into this friend again and said, ok - I HAVE to know the story!

He said that despite his explanations on thermal protection and how it works, the woman was CONVINCED that her synthetic wool/polyester blend sweater (not even real wool) and sweatpants would help her stay warm on the dive - because "there are wool lined wetsuits and fleece lined wetsuits - so obviously there must be some thermal protection in them - this has to be better than nothing"

At least she had the forethought to put these clothing items UNDER the shorty - hahahah!

 

[crgravitt]

Christmas 2011 we were on a boat with a Brit who experienced Montezuma's Revenge and he immediately put himself back in the water without telling the crew. They were trying to get him to get on the boat and he acted like he didn't hear them. We were only too happy for him to rinse as long as needed. Once he finally got back on, he stripped off the wetsuit and hung it over his head from the sun cover - it was dripping and spraying everyone behind him and I got to see some folks move faster than lightning.