How do YOU enter the water?

[Snowbear]

Depends on the boat... Sideroll or backroll if going over the side. Giant stride if I can. I messed up a back roll off Uncle Pug the boat once and whacked my head on the hull. OWIE!! :11:

Not a boat dive, but I did a giant stride off an old ferry dock last week. The tide was up, so the drop was only ~ 4'.

 

[Wildcard]

I did a giant stride off of a 9-10 foot pier. I'll never do that again. The family jewels ended up in my mask or so it felt.

 

[Nomaster]

Mo2vation (I think) once had an avatar of a perfectly executed forward roll off the second (upper) deck of a dive boat...........

I miss the forward roll, I haven't done it in years (I'm afraid it would freak others now), but that was my main entry my first lifetime.
So now, the tame backroll.

Tom

 

[emtdan]

This is very interesting....

Uncle Pug, could you please add that on, i cant figure out how to.

Nomaster, how do you do a front roll? I have tried, and been very unsucessful.

 

[skye]

Back roll off the side. That 99 percent of the times ends as an underwater sumersault.

 

[baltimoron]

I did a giant stride off of a 9-10 foot pier. I'll never do that again. The family jewels ended up in my mask or so it felt.

did you have your fins on? That doesn't help matters. I have only done it twice, what I did was I just held my fins and put them on in the water. One of my kibbutz buddies, however, dropped a fin and had to descend with only one.

I used to be a diver (well, : you know, like Greg Louganis. I guess I still am a diver, no? :eyebrow,) I get a thrill out of those high jumps. It's a bit more awkward with the tank, however... Giant Stride usually does it for me.

I am also curious, how does one pull off a foward roll without clanking their first stage on their neck?

 

[down4fun]

Mostly giant stride unless the DM is letting me bomb the wreck with him then it's head first and frankly that's my favorite!

 

[SeanQ]

Would the struggle-through-pounding-surf-while-trying-to-avoid-slipping-on-kelp-and-rocks-shore-entry? classify as "other"?

 

[drbill]

Very gingerly this time of the year as the water is getting a little chilly.

Off a boat it is usually a giant stride off a vessel with significant freeboard and a back roll off lower boats (Zodiacs, etc).

Dr. Bill

 

[slyder]

i mostly do beach dives so my answer is very carefully