Noobi diving Experiance

[MATTBIN]

First ever dive, a try dive in Holland in a pool. Big gob full of water, spit out reg, oh thats bright, now what you gonna breath - water. Er I dont think so, bolt to the surface and breath, well I was only 1m down. Havent done that since.
OW course, apparently the worst weight belt removal/replacement the Instructor had EVER seen, I didnt understand what I was supposed to do with it, do it differently now anyway.
Stoney a few weeks ago, might have been a good idea to attach the dry-suit feed, thanks Buddy for telling me just before I dropped in.

Live and learn
Matt

[abucksdiver]

<font color='#000080'>I've also done the &quot;forget to connect the drysuit hose&quot; thang... but managed to connect it without anybody noticing


abucksdiver

[Bunny]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Steve W @ June 03 2003,12:19)]THey're called avatars go to &lt;your control panel&gt; &lt;personal info&gt; &lt;avatar options&gt;

Don't seem to have &quot;personal info&quot; in my control panel. Maybe on my PC at home... will investigate...

[Jules]

<font color='#736AFF'>arh but what's his email address? Dont know how you attach something to the emails you generate from this forum....
Julia
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[Duiker]

Several years ago the good lady and myself were enjoying our first real diving holiday in Phuket and had just completed our PADI AOW course. As we had a few spare dives we decided to take advantage of the opportunity to take the DSV specialty and had just completed a fairly hairy current dive at Shark Point (at times even the scooter could not swim against the current over the reef). We landed with the scooters in 9 meters of &nbsp;soup, on a sandy bottom, and made sure we were on the lea side of the reef to reduce the current.
I proceeded to produce an SMB from my stab that our Instructor had given us to ensure pick up. The rope attached is also a handy five meters long to take out the conscious effort of a three-minute safety stop. I eagerly inflated said SMB and watched it disappear toward the surface like a bloody rocket (whilst ensuring I tied it to my stab to ensure I didn’t loose it as it wasn’t mine).
Suddenly I was jolted upward like I had been fired from a Polaris sub and surfaced so fast I practically left the bloody water! I was in NINE meters of water!
Lessons learnt? Don’t tie shit to your stab! Don’t be over confident. Don’t worry about kit, you can buy another.

[Dr Stevil]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (bunny @ June 03 2003,14:40)]Don't seem to have &quot;personal info&quot; in my control panel.

<font color='#0000FF'>second from left column, inbetween &lt;Summary&gt; and &lt;e-mail settings&gt;

[Finless]

Even worse than the newbie cock up is the experienced cock up - I jumped in off the boat at Scapa last year with no fins on MUCH to everyone else's amusement - hence the &quot;nom de plume&quot; Finless. Mange tout, Rodney, what a plonker!

Furtunately for me, shortly after someone jumped in with dry suit zip not done up properly (front entry - only himself to blame) so I didn't suffer alone.

[Digger]

<font color='#000080'>You don't have to send it to him to attatch an avatar. You can do it by imprting a photo. That's wha I did, and mine looks ok, except for the ugly bugger in the photo!

It's possible through the personal settings. Took me a while.

Could one of the moderators stick it on the Information board? Someone explained it in detail for me (thanks to whoever that was) a while back, and it's not too complicated. Only problem I had was that the photo I had was high-quality big photo, so I had to scale it down. There was only more sea behind me anyway!!!

How you can jump in without fins is beyond me. Then again, I've jumped in with sunglasses on from the roof of the boat. Result - nearly lost them, and they cost me a good £3!!!

The Diggershades. Best sunglasses I ever bought. Shame they broke so damned easily.

[GUV..]

Ok i will admit to these:-

Doing my open water in Cuba ,due the location of island we had to travel out miles to get the water deeper than 2 metres so every dive was from a boat.Felt like james bond skimming over the water in the powerboat to get to the location.Kit up and sit on the edge of the boat final check and a backwards roll,i hear this almighty rip.I've snagged the shorty(wetsuit not the other thing)on a hook and its got a twelve inch rip in it.i check for blood(sharks) but it is only a scratch but my arse is hanging out the back and to make things worse i was diving commando style ,but i must admit the travel of water was quite nice

Last dive of the two weeks and already passed OW the instructors take me out to more adventurous places have a great dive and as i am getting low on air signal for ascent and they agree.I go into a vertical position to ascend and they do the same but they keep on moving and within seconds dissapear .Ok i am not panicked but began to feel uneasy as i have no watch or computer only a depth gauge ,so i ascend watching my bubbles and depth gauge and counting in seconds(one elephant,two elephant...etc) and eventually get to the safty stop at 5m and start counting again .Every thing around me is getting darker and theres nothing beneath me or around me except dark blue water which seems to be getting darker and darker by the second.I can now hear the boat which is now circling above me which is a real relief but then the boat shoots off, my thinking is its gone to pick up the instructors so it must be safe to go to the surface so prepare for the final asent ,i rise slowly and break the surface and that exact time i here this almight bang .The only thing i can think of is i have been hit by the boat but there is no pain,no blood and i can still see so i look around and realise that we are in th middle of a thunder storm and it was a clap of thunder above me. I can laugh now but at the time it scared me shitless.So over the two weeks of OW i managed to rip the arse out of one wetsuit and shit in another.

Regards,

MAL...

[Diving Dude]

l`ve done the polaris ride the smb bit, early days, trying out smb without a reel or weighted, all this line floating around waiting to snag a diver...well it did.

As l`m getting dragged to the surface all l could think was that my son was alone 15mtrs below me, l dropped back down to 5 mtrs to see him slowly ascending with another one of our group.

Last feb in Kenya l`m the only experienced one on the boat of eight people, l`m diving with one of the guides, having waited 30mins kitted up l was getting a bit frustrated and warm and asked if l enter the water and wait, the guide agreed and l did a backward roll into the water without a reg in my gob.

l didn`t seem quite as cool after that.