Noobi diving Experiance

[Mark Chase]

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Quote[/b] (abucksdiver @ June 03 2003,14:06)]I've also done the &quot;forget to connect the drysuit hose&quot; thang... but managed to connect it without anybody noticing


abucksdiver

Thats not a newbe thing. I do that all the time

My first ever dive was in St Lucia July 1992

We did skills 20 yards off of the beach and then finned out to the reef. It was fantastic. I was J. Causto. Just like I had always dreamed. The sign post nailed in the reef saying National Park Please do not touch the correl was a bit of a downer but there you go.

So dive over and the guide signals up. To my surprise the support boat was over head and it was just a case of ascending and getting on the boat no fin back to shore. Great

Before getting on the boat the divers de kitted strange but that's what they did.

So I was happy to hang back and go last. Then I thaught I would be realy cooool and rather than wait fro the instructor to help me de kit I would inflate my BCD and take it off my self. Great plan apart from forgeting to take the weight belt off.

I remember plumiting tawards the bottom thinking that was a realy stupid thing to do.

I droped the weight belt and finned back up and I seem to remember the dive instructor looking very angry.  

I thaught it was because I droped his weight belt and he had to go an get it. I now realise he thaught I was going to cop it.

All good fun

Mark Chase

[sludge]

<font color='#8D38C9'>definately not a newbie thing.....I took mine off the 1st stage(reason forgotten), then forgot to put it back on...i only noticed after i had jumped in and had to borrow my buddy's inflator.

Another occasion, my buddy was diving with argon, which ran out half way to the hydrobox. I remained blissfully unaware, until we got out after a 40 min dive when he was virtually hypothermic...he didn't abort as it was my first 30m dive Awww &nbsp;note do not lend argon bottle to others unless they refill it &nbsp;

[John Gulliver]

1) Very first pool session. Every time I moved, I rolled over onto my back, couldn't stay on an even keel, spent most of the time upside down looking up at the surface. Thought I'd never get the hang of it.
2) One of my first trips abroad, to the Maldives. Dive guide: &quot;There's a strong current the first few metres, so don't hang about on the surface. Jump in with an empty BC and go straight down to the bottom. We'll meet there.&quot; So John jumps in, sees everybody else way below him but is unable to descend. Oh dear, no weightbelt!
3) Ireland. Jump in with my zip open. Cold as hell and the few metres' swim back to the boat was the hardest I've ever done. The dive afterwards in a soggy undersuit after emptying the water out of my drysuit was probably also the coldest I've ever experienced.