Your most expensive dive

[lexvil]

San Francisco Maru

 

[clownfishsydney]

Probably where I first dived with someone who became my wife and later left me and divorced me. Had to give her half of what I had, huge considering she had nothing when we met and I had two houses and more!

 

[Leov60]

Manly Sealift Acquarium Shark Dive . 480$ tota for me and my wife (unexperienced diver). basically a shark dive with grey nurse (so really low risk), sting rays, wobbebongs, sea turtles, etc during out honeymoon. money well spent.

And 140€ for the dive in Grotta Giusti (a cave dive using speleo equipment in a thermal cave). Special!

 

[Rickk]

Flooding a $400 dive computer would be mine.

That was just yesterday for me. Splashed and as I initiated decent looked at the computer just in time to see the display fade.

I am off to Cebu City Monday AM to pick up a new Shear water Perdix AI.

 

[Julius SCHMIDT]

Probably where I first dived with someone who became my wife and later left me and divorced me. Had to give her half of what I had, huge considering she had nothing when we met and I had two houses and more!

Maybe should have let your imagination run away with you after Birmingham

 

[tursiops]

I was newly certified to be diving normoxic trimix, and I was going to Florida for a vacation. I was hoping to get in a tech dive while there. The course director at my Colorado shop had worked for a shop in Fort Lauderdale in the past, and he knew a tech diver (instructor) there. He thought the guy might want to do a dive with me, and he got me the guy's email address. I wrote to him, telling him the circumstances and asking if he would be willing to do a tech dive with me. He said he would.

He set everything up--chartered a boat, got me tank rentals, and got us both expensive trimix and deco gas fills. It was not until we were getting on the boat and it was time to pay up that I realized he expected me to pay for everything--my tank rentals, my trimix fills, his trimix fills, my deco tank rentals, both of our deco gases, and the full cost of the boat charter. He was acting as my guide, so I had to pay everything. I checked my email later--there is no hint in there that I was asking for anything other than a dive buddy. In fact, it was pretty damn clear. I found out later that the tanks I rented were all his, so he was charging me for renting his tanks, too. I was too meek and timid to protest, and it is damn lucky that I had a wallet with a bunch of hundreds in it to pay for it all.

While we were diving the wreck of the Hydro Atlantic, he signaled me to ask how much gas I had. I signaled back, showing that I still had plenty to continue the dive. He immediately thumbed the dive. When I asked later why, he said he did not know me and had no idea what my gas consumption would be, so he had thumbed early. When we got out of the water, I still had more than half of my trimix remaining, and I am sure he had more than that. So I paid many hundreds of dollars for a short tech dive to about 160 feet. My friendly "buddy" got a free dive and went home with hundreds of dollars of gas that I paid for left over for his future diving pleasure.

You got screwed. Wish I knew that guy's name...

 

[boulderjohn]

You got screwed. Wish I knew that guy's name...

He retired because of health reasons a few years later.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

In February of 2006, I met Merry Passage while diving at Marineland in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. I invited her to dive with me the next weekend. She's been my primary dive buddy ever since. Within a year I had sold my furniture and moved in with her. Four years later, after several rough beach dives at Marineland, we bought a boat. Later came a few drysuits, different cameras/housings, and foreign dive trips. We've spent more money in fourteen years than I made in my lifetime. Slowly going broke, but it's been worth every penny.

 

[Darnold9999]

Komodo, prepping camera for the dive the night before was not sure if I wanted to shoot macro or WA so left the WA lens on, dome port on, but unlatched (for no good reason). Forgot the next morning, and on the back roll in the dome popped off. New DSLR camera, new WA lens and new housing (old one could have been serviced but new camera would not fit) - someone retrieved the dome port on the descent. Roughly a $5,000 dive. Not in Wookie or 100Dives range, but still a dammed expensive dive.

 

[Marie13]

Komodo, prepping camera for the dive the night before was not sure if I wanted to shoot macro or WA so left the WA lens on, dome port on, but unlatched (for no good reason). Forgot the next morning, and on the back roll in the dome popped off. New DSLR camera, new WA lens and new housing (old one could have been serviced but new camera would not fit) - someone retrieved the dome port on the descent. Roughly a $5,000 dive. Not in Wookie or 100Dives range, but still a dammed expensive dive.

Stuff like that makes me happy to dive with my $130 Intova Nova HD.