Not Sure How I'd Handle This

[Bubbles McGee]

I'd be pretty freaked out. What are some of your weird scenes inside the goldmine?

Piranhas and crocs are nothing compared to what lurks at the bottom of this Minnesota lake - Travelweek

 

[CuzzA]

While doing a night dive at Hudson Grotto* (a place where even a day dive may as well be considered a night dive) a couple weeks after Halloween I stumbled upon a pair of legs with old beat up tennis shoes tangled in some tree branches at about 40 feet deep, IIRC. I pointed it out to my group using my flash light and continued on finishing the dive. For a moment I thought, "well this is going to be a long night talking to authorities." Once top side I mentioned it to my crew and one of them quickly dismissed it as not being real as apparently the shop that runs the sink did a pumpkin carving contest there on Halloween and put decorations all around. I never put the two together during the dive. I just figured I found the remains of a murder victim or an alligator's dinner. Went and ate some Sonny's Bar-B-Que and called it a night.

* a 130 ffw tannin sink hole in West Pasco County Florida.

 

[rabe]

I'd be pretty freaked out. What are some of your weird scenes inside the goldmine?

Piranhas and crocs are nothing compared to what lurks at the bottom of this Minnesota lake - Travelweek

I saw it yesterday: it's wonderful!!

 

[Scared Silly]

A local lake has a few additions. One is a boat being captained by Manny Quin. Being a DM I took a couple of students out to the boat for their first night dive. I lead the way until just before reaching the boat when I let my two students go first. They saw the boat and started to explore. Then they saw Manny Quin and about bolted to the surface. I grabbed both whilst trying not to split out my reg from laughing hard. Back on shore I told them that they would not forget their first night dive. Which we all got a good laugh from.

 

[N518LF]

I honestly hope no one ever does that to me. It's one thing to walk through a fun haunted house during Halloween and see Jason or body parts. At depth when you aren't expecting, when it could actually have been a real person, not cool in my opinion. Just my $0.02, take it for what it's worth.

 

[rabe]

I honestly hope no one ever does that to me. It's one thing to walk through a fun haunted house during Halloween and see Jason or body parts. At depth when you aren't expecting, when it could actually have been a real person, not cool in my opinion. Just my $0.02, take it for what it's worth.

...it might be dangerous, yes.
But it's funny.

 

[diversteve]

I've been somewhere in the Caribbean where there's a mannequin in full dive gear near a popular shallow dive. Maybe in the BVI's? The crew ruined it though, they told us so no one rushed to the surface to report it. I never saw it but someone on the boat said it's a little tattered looking so unlikely to be confused with a real diver.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Some years ago a couple of guys put down a maniquin dressed in an old drysuit, fins, BCD and scuba tank near one of our local wreck dives. They carefully placed it so that it was partially buried underneath a piece of the wreck. It scared the bejeebers out of some local divers before it became known that it wasn't a real person ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[rabe]

Some years ago a couple of guys put down a maniquin dressed in an old drysuit, fins, BCD and scuba tank near one of our local wreck dives. They carefully placed it so that it was partially buried underneath a piece of the wreck. It scared the bejeebers out of some local divers before it became known that it wasn't a real person ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

This is something that I'm thinking often, even though is off topic: how many times divers have found a dead body somewhere? Beside being a diver, I'm also a runner, and runners find dead bodies all the time...
And a related topic: it would be interesting to see what happen to a body that decompose in a drysuit, which shouldn't have any exchange with the outside environment, therefore it would be a very slow and interesting way of decomposition. Don't get me wrong, I'm not sick, I'm just a curious scientist...

 

[DerekR]

As a former public safety diver, I can guarantee you that this would cause some serious flashbacks!