My "Places I Won't Dive" List (and yours...)

[RockPile]

1) The Amazon: I won't even dip my toe in a place where bull sharks and crocodiles fight it out over wildebeest carcasses. That was perhaps the most disturbing and awesome footage I’ve ever seen.

2) Farallon Islands: The Devil's Teeth read like a bizarro world travel brochure (but a fantastic book nonetheless).

3) Rivers: Never again. And even if it wasn't an incredible let down, talk about unnecessarily hazardous.

4) Clinton Lake (a nuclear power plant reservoir): Any place that suggests to fishermen (who are there, why I don’t know) that eating more than two fish from the lake a year could be dangerous isn’t a dive site to which I’ll be heading.

5) Any place where the best scuba activity is collecting golf balls.



JB

 

[archman]

Any coastal shore-accessible sites in Texas. Even Mansfield Pass can kiss my grits.

 

[DandyDon]

(1) The Amazon: I won't even dip my toe in a place where bull sharks and crocodiles fight it out over wildebeest carcasses. That was perhaps the most disturbing and awesome footage I’ve ever seen.

Uh, Wildebeest/Gnus are in Africa (according to this site), while the Amazon River is in South America.

Really, this strikes me of the beginnings of a dumb thread, but I'm often wrong. I'll watch.

 

[RockPile]

Well, when you're right your right. It must have been some other kind large of hairy animal. Every large hairy animal that isn’t a buffalo is a wildebeest to me.

And you are also right that this is a "dumb" thread. Sometimes it's fun to talk about nonsense. I’m hoping for some funny stuff.

You're two for two, Ace. Enjoy the show.

 

[ThatsSomeBadHatHarry]

Death Valley.

 

[DandyDon]

Crocs do attack Gnus on their annual migrations across parts of Africa. Maybe add the Congro River...?

Death Valley.

I do want to go for the Rock Races there someday: The Sliding Rocks on the Racetrack Playa

 

[RockPile]

You're probably right, Don...

6) Congo: Let's just call it the Amazon's freaky cousin.

 

[DandyDon]

You're probably right, Don...

6) Congo: Let's just call it the Amazon's freaky cousin.

Or the Nile has Crocs, as do many Asian and Australian rivers. But I think you mentioned NO RIVERS.

 

[archman]

For river diving with crocs, I hear the Nile is peachy keen.

Dang, Don beat me.

 

[almitywife]

Octopus Resort, Fiji - with the payout we got, my insurer wasnt happy when i got back from there

Avalon, Sydney - nearly died there once and that was enough for me never to do it again

the PPD "Washing Machine Dive"... thats just ****ed!

"Surf Entry" dives that some of the SoCal divers talk about - im spoilt here in sydney, no need to fight any waves to go diving