What was or is your worst scuba Diving experience.?

Question

Scuba divers ONLY please.

Answer 1

I mooned a glass-bottom boat while skin diving in Catalina and got cited for indecent exposure.

Answer 2

I was spearfishing and shot a large grouper . At about 90 feet . The spear was not tethered . The gun was buoyant shot towards the surface . In a flash i shot after it . Then i realized i was coming up too fast . i stopped at about 30 feet . Burned about 800 psi . then returned to the boat . I had a very small amount of DCS ( Decompression sickness ) in the form of shoulder and elbow pain on the right side . I was very lucky . Now I am a dive instructor and i know how important continuing education is . It keeps this stuff on your mind. In every case i have read . Including mine . It is almost always the diver that errors . equipment failure is generally lack of maintenance .

Answer 3

Diving in Cozumel, just completed safety stop, are was approaching surface (just a few feet). I heard a boat motor, both my buddy and I looked to my left to see a propellor spinning towards us. We pushed off of each other to watch it pass between us in front of our faces. We were only a few yards from our boat and the sister boat from the same hotel had plowed into us so that the "captains" could talk. Complained loudly but nothing was done about it.

Answer 4

Mine was when I was diving for lobster at night on a shipwreck, and got disoriented in 80 feet of water. I couldn't find the boat, so I came up in a free water ascent and drift about a mile from the dive boat, out in the middle of the ocean at night.... I drifted for 45 minutes before they found me....

Answer 5

In my open water dive #5 (back in the old days - I was just barely 15 at the time), my much older dive buddy freaked and I had to two him back to shore. He was frozen and was not helping in any way (at least he was not fighting me tho) -- he even refused to stand up in waist deep water. I had to drag him until his butt was on the gravel in about two feet of water. All this in cold water gear circa 1977 (before most BCs had power inflates and when the big brand was Fenzy).

Answer 6

I was in Jamaica and I was drowsy from the little sleep I didn't get. I went out in the water with my client anyway, since I'm an instructor. Everything went smooth-sailing until I snapped my leg not being careful when I was getting out of the water. My leg was broken after falling on a rock trying to get out of the water. I hurry to much.

Answer 7

well,

It was this time in Australia, when I went diving with a couple of people.

We were going down, and at about 15 meters, I turned around to check for my buddy, when she was twisting around, all surrounded by housands of bubble.

I just had my open water diving license that time, and I was a bit scarred.

I took her up, after giving her my 2nd regulator.

It was a leak in her regulator.

Answer 8

i have had one undesirable journey with diving; chilly water and my kit wasn't truly precise. definite, an uncomfortable difficulty can go away one shaken up. really if it really is somewhat scary. definite, prepare and journey may help plenty. It sounds like you'll do nicely to spotlight being calm and slowing your respiratory down.

Answer 9

my regulator malfuntioned and I could see the o2 levels drop as I watched....I did a controlled emergency surface without my partner...who was searching for coins 20 yards away....the damn fool never looked for me.... I was in the boat.

Answer 10

the bends and a collapsed lung all in one go.