Ever narked? Never!

[Crieagle]

Noticed a bad nark last year. Was doing the Nyon of the south coast at 35mon air. We were second to go in and there was a bit of a swell. Usually am ok with icky tums but not today. The icky feling never left me. Got to the wreck and my buddy saw me finning off like a loon. Came back a little later after finding the car windscreens I was looking for but had a feeling of dread the whole dive. I did not even want to deploy my DSNB. I felt something would go wrong Came up the shot. Headed back in.

Strange thing was I never thought I was narked till I was back on the rib.

Gammon double egg and chips and I was sorted. 30% next time methinks.

[scubagit]

I have a habit of reading my gauge less than I actually have in the can!! Have gotten funny looks having 150 bar one minute and 160 ten minutes later.
Or maybe I'm a blind bastard!!!

[Buoyant Babe]

Originally Posted by Kirstie

I've had unhappy, tunnel-vision, anxious narks in 30m on a wreck in Tenerife. Twice, on different days on the same wreck. Thankfully I was diving with the lovely Buoyant Babe on both occasions, and she was most attentive to my mild panic, ushering me to shallower depths where I came to my senses.

Glad to have been of assistance my dear

Remember the 40m dive where we 'climbed' back up the sea-bed Batman and Robin stylee? It never seemed that steep going down!

I had a freaky moment at 36m in Stoney last month. It was a combination of being narked and an equipment failure. My wing bladder had a puncture and I couldn't understand why my buoyancy was all to pot. It's funny, but I knew I felt really uncomfortable and was breathing heavily, and a little voice in the back of my head was saying 'clam down, you're narked, you're alright'.
After locating the problem, the next day I did the same dive and was fine.

Sometimes I hear a telephone ringing underwater, even on relatively shallow dives. The bells, the bells!

[ratcliffe]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

Remember the 40m dive where we 'climbed' back up the sea-bed Batman and Robin stylee? It never seemed that steep going down!

That wouldn't be Rad Azul would it ? Thats a damn steep slope on the way down, but it always seems even steeper on the way back up. I remember straining my head up to look at the rocks at the top of the slope and thinking "bloody hell!"

[Buoyant Babe]

Originally Posted by ratcliffe

That wouldn't be Rad Azul would it ? Thats a damn steep slope on the way down, but it always seems even steeper on the way back up. I remember straining my head up to look at the rocks at the top of the slope and thinking "bloody hell!"

That's the one I think Ratty!

[SoggyFox]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

Sometimes I hear a telephone ringing underwater, even on relatively shallow dives.

trying leaving your mobile in the car next time.

been narked on the Salsette, knew i was a bit la la and made myself look at gauges and concentrate on checks. Nothing bad but could feel my concentration wondering off.

[Buoyant Babe]

Originally Posted by SoggyFox

trying leaving your mobile in the car next time.

I did wonder on one dive in Santorini if someone had taken thier mobile into the water in an aquapac!

[SoggyFox]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

I did wonder on one dive in Santorini if someone had taken thier mobile into the water in an aquapac!

we talked about this once and i wanted one with a Sonar Ping on it, or the music to Jaws.



and having dived alot with guys on inspo's, i'd like a phone with the inspo alarm on it.

[Tunicates are Mad]

Originally Posted by nigelH

Faced with something just a bit out of the ordinary at 30m they really put the brakes on but when asked, back on the boat, what the problem was they deny any problem and think they were running at full speed.

Thats a funny thing about being off your head isnt it? When my dad was a lawyer he had a case where these two guys where tripping their nuts off while driving on the motorway, they were pulled over and the cop asked how fast they thought they were going....".Er....75?" they said. No - try again. "Er.....85? 90? It kind of felt a bit fast to us"
It turns out they were doing 7 mph!

[Woz]

Narcosis tends to affect me in a variable but predictable way.

In the UK heading down the shot I get the willies a bit at 20m (but that's more due to CO2 I reckon) and sometime serious vertigo- as in it feels like I'm holding the line and spinning round it at a speed of about once a second. As I know it's coming, I just hold on and enjoy the ride although the first time it happened it was absolutely fcuking terrifying. As soon as there's something solid to focus on (like the wreck) the spinning stops.

As I head on down at 30m I can feel a slight creeping wooziness that is noticable but not impairing. At 35m it's a definite buzz (say the bottom of Stoney). At 40m it's a good couple of pints of Stella and at 50m in Swithland (cold dark deep silty quarry) I was absolutely tw@tted.

However in good viz (say on the James Barrie in Scapa in 43m) where Garf is peering myopically at his slate wondering who Barrie is, I felt fine if a little woozy.

On the Salsette in 2ft viz it was a thoroughly unpleasant experience and not one I would want to repeat in a hurry. In 8m viz (the 2nd time around) the dive was great- at 42m I felt a little woozy but perfectly capable of repositioning Smudge's shot so he could lift the thing.