Called the dive before the dive.

[MORGAN]

Speaking of forgetting stuff, a few years ago Tracy and I went to do a dive with a buddy off Split Rock Point in Lake Champlain. We got there and I found that I had forgotten my drysuit. So Tracy and Dave did a dive while I hung out in Dave's new boat - a 14 foot rigid inflatable. After a while I thought: It's a beautiful sunny day with no wind; so what if it's May and the lake was frozen just a few weeks ago. I think I'll go for a quick dip!

So I stripped out of my clothes and jumped in. I immediately regretted it - it was COLD! After swimming around for a moment I decided that I needed to be back in the boat. That was when I found that I couldn't climb in. It had big air tubes and no ladder, and I just couldn't get hold of anything to pull myself up. I pondered my options - stay in the water and die of hypothermia, swim the 200 yards to shore and hang out naked until Tracy and Dave came back, or GET BACK IN THE BOAT!

So I scrambled up the stern beside the outboard motor and got one hand on the transom and one foot on the motor just above the prop. Then I was high enough to see inside the boat and notice the grab handle on the inside of the air tube. I plopped back in, swam around to the side, and managed to heave myself out of the water far enough to get hold of the handle and haul myself in. Now before I jump into the water, I think for a moment about how I'm going to get back out!

[bullfrog]

Mike that is too funny!!!! rotflmao

[Dsix36]

Back in time, when Becky Kagan was filming at Eagles Nest for a TV news report, I happened to be there too. Brett Hemphil was there for an interview along with some other "names" in cave diving. We were geared up and waited for the interview to be over before getting in the basin. We grabbed our scooters and went down to the tree at 30' to hang our O2 and do our bubble checks. I soon realized that I did not have any of my reels. I had left them sitting on the bench. It was rather embarrassing to surface and ask if somone would please hand my reels to me. I am sure that any credability to my name as a cave diver went away right then and there.

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[mwenner]

I love these types of strings! Dumb luck, or no luck at all. I did sit out a dive a couple weeks ago, at TAG (Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia), and that's rare for me. Sure I wanted to dive, but there were two good divers in the water, on a virgin push dive, and I thought about all the times that I was the one holding the reel, pushing. It's nice to hand it over to someone else, and or let the next guy get a shot at it. It's really all about passing on what we've learned, right?

[adam0321]

Good for you. I wish I had done the same a while back. Might still be diving.

[BillGraham]

This is interesting to me because I've spent a lot of time thinking about it. I grew up surfing and I'm still really avid with it. If it's big, it's rare that you aren't thinking about getting dragged over the reef/rocks or pounded or sucked out some inlet as you're getting ready to paddle out and there's always an apprehension level. You're never 100% sure what's going to happen once you commit to it. When I started diving in general, and cave diving in particular, I never felt any kind of adreneline rush before starting a dive because it seemed really calm to me compared to the immediate brutality (paddling out) of surfing. I had to train myself to focus in on how I was feeling physically and mentally and unlearn everything I learned in surfing about blocking out fear, because that's not what you want. I've called a number of dives in and out of the water because I wasn't feeling right, or because one or two things went awry and I wasn't waiting for the next one, or because the dive plan seemed too hell bent for me.

[whodunit68]

I've been with people who have called dives for whatever reason. I have called dives myself before getting there.
so only last Sunday, I was dragging in the morning (so much so that someone asked me if I was ok,) tired at the dive site and even mentioned to my buddies that I might not do the dive.
I did the dive and while it was not a particularly eventful dive. All went well on the dive including a particularly slow ascent and stayed within my conservative 30/70 deco profile. I ended up in the ER that night feeling funny. Turns out not to probably not have been a DCS issue but this is a case where I should have listened. Thankfully it wasn't worse.

[snakedoc]

I've been with people who have called dives for whatever reason. I have called dives myself before getting there.
so only last Sunday, I was dragging in the morning (so much so that someone asked me if I was ok,) tired at the dive site and even mentioned to my buddies that I might not do the dive.
I did the dive and while it was not a particularly eventful dive. All went well on the dive including a particularly slow ascent and stayed within my conservative 30/70 deco profile. I ended up in the ER that night feeling funny. Turns out not to probably not have been a DCS issue but this is a case where I should have listened. Thankfully it wasn't worse.

Dats right, my boy, ya see what happens when you go diving without yo daddy. You be needin sum o dat special voodoo gas, son.

[erglenn]

I had the same problems, but always lucky, my buddies have all honored the golden rule, no questions no repercussions.
Bu t has costed me a couple of beers.....

[thatcampbellkid]

Thats great! A good reminder to the rest of us as we try out all of our new toys in the days to come