Whistling on boats is bad luck, any reason why?

[jlwarlow]

Last week I was diving on a live-a-board for 9 days. Whever someone, well, Alan whistled he was told to stop it as it's bad luck. What's the reason for this?

There seems to be some truth to this as his dry suit leaked every day then one day I found him flat on his back with a few divers armed with pliers trying to unzip him and then on the 3rd to last day one latex cuff cleanly detached from his dry suit. Another diver on the trip had a problem with his front loading zip and so it wasn't fully zipped up and he got a minor flood - fortunately he managed to zip up completely underwater but he did get a little damp. Another diver's front loading zip had a tooth break but luckily it worked long enough to work over the weekend. On the last day while I was diving with a married couple me and the husband managed to lose his wife, we found her after a few minutes, she had sent up a DSMB and was about to ascend, when we reached her we aborted the dive early as she wasn't too happy - not a bother though as the vis was crap and not a good dive.

On the whole though no major incident, but I think Alan will refrain from whistling on the boats in future!

[Dr Stevil]

something to do with whistling up a storm?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c_traveller/super.htm

[jlwarlow]

Originally Posted by Steve W

something to do with whistling up a storm?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c_traveller/super.htm

I wish I knew about the naked women on a boat calm the sea, we could have done with a calm sea on the way out - as it tuned out the four women on board whipped up a right rough trip - we were all out flat trying not to get sick - only one guy threw up half way there.

[Helen F H]

Avoid red heads on the way to a ship as they bring bad luck to the ship.

Does this mean we have to avoid Bren?