Dives canceled this morning

[boulderjohn]

I was scheduled for a two tank dive this morning, but it was canceled, just because of a local tornado. Can you believe it? Back in the early days of scuba, nobody would have let a tornado get in the way of a good dive. In fact, I cannot think of a single time in my life that anyone ever canceled a dive because of a tornado. Today was a first.

Anyone else ever had this happen?

 

[Jax]

I'm sorry, John; that's just funny! :lolabove:

 

[Wookie]

Tornado time is when I want everyone in the water. We see a tornado, we head offshore. What kind of boat are you chartering, John?

 

[Johnoly]

The fuel surcharge is usually waived on dive trips that day. But like an airplane you'll get charged for an extra bag to fly you to the dive site.

 

[CajunDiva]

You just can't let something like this ruin a perfectly good dive! (Taken when surfacing from a dive in Roatan)

 

[CuzzA]

We get waterspouts here every summer. They don't last very long, they move pretty slow and I wouldn't cancel an offshore boat dive due to one potentially being in the area. Of course we also don't get too excited about hurricanes either, unless they're above a Cat 3.

Not my video, but I've seen plenty of them just like this one.

 

[seeker242]

The emergency alert told us to "seek shelter in a basement". Thought that was kinda funny as no one here has basements!

 

[Kairoos]

Lot of tornadoes recently, pretty strange out there. The weather was beautiful though, I wish I wasn't stuck up in an office all weekday!

 

[boulderjohn]

A couple hours later the weather was near perfect.

I did learn one thing--the tornado alert on the cell phone will indeed get your attention!

 

[Steve_C]

Recall a day fishing offshore for Tuna with a front moving through. Spent the day dodging around water spouts. Saw a number of them that day.

Sounds like you had an eventful day.