Uncle Pug's Top Ten reasons for Horizontal Ascents.

[Uncle Pug]

10 ~ It’s the last day of your GUE class and you want out of purgatory.

9 ~ You are a tall Texan and the ditch you dive is only 5 feet deep.

8 ~ You dive in boat infested waters and want the tank to be struck first.

7 ~ Maybe someone will think you are GI3 finally diving the quarry.

6 ~ Maybe someone will think you are Uncle Pug.

5 ~ You are diving with Net Doc and you want to make him turn green with envy.

4 ~ Because you can and they can’t.

3 ~ Manatees do it but wish they had tanks.

2 ~ You can’t stand to say goodbye to the underwater world.

And the number one reason for a horizontal ascent:

1 ~ You didn’t mean too… but you dropped your knife and as you were watching it disappear you popped to the surface prone after losing so much weight from your leg.

 

[AquaTec]

I thought you would have called this the PUG vs Rick thread.

I like your reasons, they are the most reasonable ones I have heard yet

 

[TwoBitTxn]

I resemble that remark.

I like it. Last weekend I did finally get my weight right and discovered what it felt like for perfect trim.

That was cool.

 

[jeffsterinsf]

10 - You fins are too damn bouyant to do it any other way

9 - The seawater in your lungs drains out better with your head down

8 - You and your buddy can still play "tag" using your HIDs on sea floor

7 - It somehow makes you feel better when you find your camera laying there on the bottom

6 - You can really concentrate on your computer, instead of being distracted by the surface

5 - You feel like Superman, flying free, with your wings fully inflated to be your cape billowing in the breeze as the world rushes away beneath you

4 - You're ready to swim out of the path of incoming boats and PWCs, and if you can't the tanks protect you from the props

3 - When you breach the surface, your all ready to body-surf to shore

2 - Cuz UP will fetch a fit if I don't

and...

1 - It's so comfy, you can sleep on the way up

 

[100days-a-year]

#1 should read to P.O. smug DMs mentioned long ago.

 

[The Chairman]

Ah well... maybe another time!

 

[Uncle Pug]

And here I waited up all evening just hoping you would find this thread and... hmmm.... I don't know what I was expecting...

But while you were posting this I was looking at the flamingo on your head and thinking your response would be at least mirthful.

Oh well, time to go to bed I guess... disappointed in your disappointment

 

[The Chairman]

but I WOULD like to know your reasons for horizontal ascents.

 

[Uncle Pug]

The main reason is control of ascent.

 

[scubakat]

Uncle Pug once bubbled...

1 ~ You didn’t mean too… but you dropped your knife and as you were watching it disappear you popped to the surface prone after losing so much weight from your leg.

I think I found your knife at NEah Bay this weekend UP. I found a Poseidon Master. The monster is nearly 12" long (blade = ~7"). I'd try to find a sheath for it but there would barely be enough room on my calf for it. Plus it's Pointy.... The thing is a hazard. (My buddy sure did behave for the rest of the trip though!)

-K