Name 1 Scuba-related Thing You've Done Which No One Else Has

[TONY CHANEY]

Octopus? Oh yea I have a first for that category. We were doing a night dive off Sunabi sea wall in Okinawa. Roy came across an octopus. The rather new diver in the group had never seen one before so he got very very close. Roy is showing it to him and then plants it on the newbie’s mask. Aliens movie had just been released and that is what it looked like. I thought I was going to drown from laughing so hard. The newbie was freaking out. Old Marine Corps / divers fun.

 

[wKkaY]

I made a large moray eel vomit its dinner.

We stumbled upon a fish trap in Perhentian islands (which was supposed to be a marine reserve). It had a moray eel, parrotfish, and some other reef fish. After bashing the trap door open, the fish scuttled but the moray stubbornly stayed inside. After some heckling to get it out of the trap, it vomited a large fishbone, and darted out of the trap at supersonic speed!

 

[RayfromTX]

I dived with a guy who was using a camel back drink bag for a BC, a pencil case hanging around his neck for a weight pouch, a reg that is over 40 years old, tanks hanging from short lengths of twine, and all of it held together with shoe laces.

This was last week and we had an awesome time. 90 minutes max depth 90 ft. Light deco.

Was this in Cozumel with a person from another planet and another time that had Jesus blood flowing through his veins? I know that guy and you caught him on a rather mainstream kind of day. He wasn't diving the rebreather he built from hardware store parts was he?

 

[Scared Silly]

Disappeared inside the earth diving an active subsea volcanic vent - I discovered I was small enough to fit inside there .... epic and warm.

Blue Lake in Oootah is a geothermal lake with hot pots. Some are gravel, some are "milky". With both you can wiggle your way down into them sinking like quick sand.

 

[Trace Malinowski]

This thread reminds me of the time I tried to illustrate a point to a friend of mine who I believed was taking unnecessary risks when deep wreck diving to make a name for himself. He wanted to be the first to do something.

One day we were diving down the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. I stopped along the road and motioned for him to follow me into the woods. He asked where we were going. I did my best impersonation of Eric Idle's French waiter character in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life just after Mr. Creosote explodes in the restaurant. I kept walking ... and walking ... and walking ... until I eventually found it - a large rock just small enough for both of us to muscle out of the ground.

"What are we doing?" he asked.
"Help me flip this over, okay?"
"Why?"
"Just humor me."
We flipped it over.
"There! See that?"
"What?"
"You are the first person to ever look under that rock! I bet no one else will ever look under that again in all of human history. How does it feel?"

 

[NYCNaiad]

This thread reminds me of the time I tried to illustrate a point to a friend of mine who I believed was taking unnecessary risks when deep wreck diving to make a name for himself. He wanted to be the first to do something...

Completely agree! This was actually one of the reasons I created this thread & used the example of me having dengue treated at a former leper colony hospital during a dive trip. I had recently seen a couple of posts elsewhere which asked what the deepest everyone's been & it pissed me off as I think this promotes dangerous thinking. EVERYONE has a scuba-related first & oftentimes their first is something that is far cooler/funnier/weirder than going deeper!

 

[Wingy]

Iceland??

No Indonesia

 

[george_austin]

I found a gold Roman coin from the Byzantine era along an old submerged structure while diving off Crete. We took the coin to a local museum and the curator confirmed it to be from that era - then she seized it and showed me the law confirming that it did indeed belong to the "authorities" - Then we went to a hotel and had the best Caesar salad and smoked albacore I've ever had.

It took me forever to think of something, anything. After watching Blue Planet II, I've come to realize that in an almost 50 year diving career, I really haven't seen anything -

 

[Jared0425]

Finding over a dozen virgin shipwrecks in Lake Huron? That's all I can do.

 

[Cowfish Aesthetic]

Finding over a dozen virgin shipwrecks in Lake Huron? That's all I can do.

I had no idea virgins were so bad at keeping ships afloat.