What is your favorite mnemonic?

[The Chairman]

From the git go of getting certified, I have been given a zillion mnemonics to memorize. From BWRAF to ALERT (my favorite) to VENTID, I have memorized so many that it's hard to keep up. Which ones do you remember and why, and do you have a favorite? Oh yeah... do you have a favorite?

 

[O-ring]

..my favorites are (in order):

TARFU
CF
NDE
SWBS

Not a mnemonic, but I also find 80/80 hysterical..

 

[Walter]

ConVENTID (VENTID) is the absolute worst I've ever encountered.

"Only Nude Redheads Feel Soft Plus Sexy" helps keep the pecking order straight for right of way on the water.

Overtaken - any vessel being overtaken has the right of way over any other vessel.

Not under command

Right - a vessel to the right has the right of way

Fishing - a vessel engaged in fishing (does not apply to sports fishing)

Sailing - a vessel under sail that is not also running it's engine.

Powerboat

Seaplane

ROY G. BIV - the order of the colors of the rainbow and the order in which colors are absorbed.

 

[jiveturkey]

When in Thailand, I relearned an old Padi favourite:

Bangkok
Women
Rarely
Are
Female

 

[Walter]

Please explain your contributions. I don't recognize some (most) of them.

 

[O-ring]

O-ring once bubbled...
..my favorites are (in order):

TARFU
CF
NDE
SWBS

Not a mnemonic, but I also find 80/80 hysterical..

TARFU - Things are really ****** up.
CF - Clusterf***
NDE - Near Death Experience
SWBS - Star Wars Bar Scene
80/80 - a warm water weenie who only dives AL80s in 80 degree water. Pronounced "eighty eighty"

 

[The Chairman]

Buddy Check... "Begin With Review And Friend" Or "Big White Rabbits Are Friendly"
Buoyancy Compensator
Weights
Releases
Air
Final

Signs before OxTox convulsions...
Visual
Ears
Nervous syndromes
Tinglies
Irritability (Walter??? :tease: )
Disorientation

Accident Management...
Approach
Look & Listen (especially for help)
Equipment/Electrical
Rscuscitate
Treat & Transport

 

[Walter]

I resemble that remark.

 

[Waterborne]

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
FUBAR - F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
DFO - Done Fell Out (a common EMS term)

That 80/80 was hilarious

 

[victoriawtx]

my instructor insisted that I remember SORTED:

Signal
Orient
Regulator
Time
Equalize
and Dive

(for a pre-dive check)

For the life of me, I could remember SORTED, but not what the heck it stood for! LOL I would just float there, suspended at the surface, looking blankly at her. LOL I would get the 'I'm dissapointed in you' look, and a big sigh, and then she'd repeat it for me...AGAIN.

As a thank you gift for all of her hard work and the time she devoted into turning me into a diver, I made her a small wall hanging in where I had stitched SORTED and it's description, along with lots of fish swimming around it.

It took me a couple of months to complete it, and I told her that with me working on it every single day, that I was sure that SORTED would be imprinted in my brain forever. LOL

She got a big kick out of my gift to her. She said that she laughs every time she looks at it, and remembers me. LOL