| What a hilarious thread.
Brilliant.
My own minor contributions – my first night dive, in Loch Long, with a very experienced buddy who I had dragged out on a foul night. I was keen to look as professional as possible as we headed towards the reef, so I was sweeping my new C8 eLED across the sea bed, rather than in front of me, pointing out interesting clumps of weed or starfish, and all in all feeling rather grand and proper. Very surprised, then, to slam into the reef, dislodging and flooding me mask, cue much bubbles, swinging about of torch and much in the way of arm waving before order was restored.
On another dive, having been advised to cure a steamed up mask problem by using Johnstone’s baby bath on the lenses, I was a little bit surprised to find toward the end of the dive that my mask had virtually completely filled up with rather pleasant foam. No more tears my ****!
Another very patient buddy had to carefully point out to me on one of my first post qualification dives that the idea with a computer was to strap it on to your wrist on the other side of the cuff dump, after a fruitless and puzzling ten minutes of trying to get the Michelin man under the surface…
And once, during a surface interval, I had been wrestling with the dilemma of getting out of the dry suit to have a bit of an old pee, and had decided to go ahead despite the inconvenience. I was ruminating out loud in front of a large, mainly female company about this inconvenience, and observed that things would be a lot simpler if I had a pish flap. There was, it has to be said, a rather astonished silence before I frantically tried to correct myself, shouting “ I mean a pee valve, a pee valve, not an, er um…”
Cheers all!
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