I can relate. On our last group dive, "Larry" dropped his weight belt on my dive computer. His response was, "you don't need that thing anyway, my vintage 1970's pressure and depth gauge is all you need."
I'm a Charter boat skipper, we do get our own back when you're diving! Especially the rebreather divers... just as they queue up ready to jump in, having done their pre breathing, circuit pressure and bail out checks, I ask "Does this large "O" ring belong to anyone?" But what really pisses us off is divers not putting up an SMB at the start of a Drift Dive. I had a rebreather diver.. ( again.....) Alone! diving for nearly twenty minutes, with no bubbles to follow...!!!! Please don't wear a wet dry suit or Wet suit in the cabin, if you want something, just ask the crew or the skipper to get it for you. If you're struggling with something, you're doing it wrong. Ask your buddy or the crew for help. Don't drop your weight belt onto the deck. Ask before diving if it's ok to bring edible creatures back on the boat, there are serious fines and penalties for landing under size or protected species, and seasons for certain species. You can always buy from fishermen if you want a lobster or Scallops to take home, leaving the live ones in the sea where they belong. Don't hold onto the Shotline to pull yourself down, do a weighting check before getting on the boat, and remember to do it with about 30 Bar in your tank so you aren't too light at the safety stop. If you dive in a dry suit and add undersuits in colder waters, you will need to add weight, and if you usually dive in freshwater quarries, you will need to add more weight in saltwater. There are tides in the sea, the water is moving. Don't ascend the Shot line if you're on a temporary shot, send up an SMB. surface under your SMB. If you have never dived in the sea from a boat before, consider doing the boat diver course, drift diver, deep diver, wreck diver and Enriched Air diver courses with a Dive Centre, that's what they are there for!
“Wait....This ain’t my dive boat!!!” As the the boat captain 3 boats down is about to have a stroke looking for the “Einstein” that just climbed on to your boat.
Had it last year. We were getting back to the boat when 2 guys joined us. They belonged to another dive group and that boat was like 500m away... needles to say we dropped them off
When you have a ton of boats in the area, it can be easy to get lost and go to the wrong one. Doesn't speak of your intelligence. People who dive all the time, numerous times every week, regularly misses the mark. However, usually there is only one boat, so you'll just have to swim. But when on vacation, there are many boats, and they all look similar.
No, seriously, I showed this video to my mates at the university of sports in Vienna where we have a huge diving school, however, there are a lot of enthusiastic diving newbies .... but ... all of us, including me, nearly wet ourselves laughing watching this video .... well, into our wetsuits obviously (sorry for my English) 😂😉. Greetings from Vienna 😉. Cheers
Ahhhh Palencar Caves in Cozumel at 2:42, I was there a few weeks ago. Niiiiice! And of course you don't want to hear: "I had a nice tall glass of tap water at the dive shop" while in Mexico (or Belize, Roatan...)
My local dive shop told me it was stupid to test out my gear in a pool if it passed inspection before I dive I’m glad I didn’t listen. One of my hoses had a crack they didn’t catch. ( I’m switching shops)
Of course I have the requisite dive experience for this trip! Yup! I'm SuperDiver! Never mind that I haven't actually been diving in six years...or in this hemisphere...or in salt water...or with one of those fancy air tank thingies...ever.
Story from a fellow instructor/dive guide: Instructor: "So have you ever been diving before?" Diver: "Yeah, I've been diving for 20 years." Later... Diver: "What's this?" point at SPG. Instructor: "A pressure gauge, you've never seen one of those before?" Diver: "No." Instructor: "So how have you kept track of your air?" Diver: "I count my breaths."
@@josephatnip2398 Did you also miss a deco stop? 'Cause that was the point. You may also want to look into survivorship bias. Had you not been fine, you wouldn't be here to brag about it.
I'm in diving for over 20 years now my best advice for somebody going on their first dive boat is when you're diving is done for the day a lot of times Rum gets broke out take it easy nobody wants to put up with a bumbling drunk that likes to ramble on about bulshit and making everybody feel uncomfortable I was stuck on a dive boat with a guy like this and we couldn't get away from him he became annoying if you want to drink go ahead stay in an all-inclusive resort and book a one-day dive trip don't drink on a dive boat
Hello, I'm Gregory from the Canary Islands. :) I will personally start charging a fee for putting back the fins and keeping the cameras of others while they are diving. A buddy wanted to enter the wreck with just one fin, I do not know if he was so excited that he did not realize that he lost a fin or just thought that with only one fin was more than enough hahaha.
Been diving for 30 years and my favorite thing to say on the boat is, how does all this stuff work? I get lots of good looks. One thing that drives me crazy about what you said. I am not a guest on the boat. I am a paying customer. And many times the rules that the boat has does not fit with what I do during a dive. They should accommodate me instead of the other way. I set up my own gear how I want it. I make sure that I have my weights, I make sure that my air is on. All I need from the guy on the boat is to make sure I am happy with the dive. I am always responsible for my own safety.
Or when the captain don't believe you saying "ey mate you can't go now, 2 people aren't up from the dive yet." and he goes anyway. I as the dm had to argue with him for 15 minutes and demand him to count the divers again and he didn't believe me. 15 minutes later, the captain O.o.
@@eldelasmotos3046 There can be multiple groups on the same dive boat, and some divers may want to dive as just buddy pairs instead of going with the crowd, especially photographers.
On the Fling, if you get locked out, your diving is over for at least 24 hours. Nextly, if I find spanish Bullion on the sea floor it will be going in my trophy cabinet until I can find a buyer in the black market or a museum that will procure it from me.
The only thing I usually say on a boat: " I get seasick, let me just curl up in a corner and maybe throw my water bottle at me after I surface. Thank you in advance. I promise to puke in the water!" So far, every skipper treated me with kindness (and pity).
I think the first week of journalism school they should teach them that divers do not have oxygen tanks! I have seen this repeatedly in our local newspaper (Atlanta) even in the Mark Trail comic strip!
Number 3, that's why I self med, no point paying a doctor fee if your gonna just ignore them when they tell you to stop. But seriously though 5 is just depressing
Most of my gear has its first dive in open water and only once had anything fail. Which isn't a problem as I just reverted to my backup and kept on going.
Speaking of faild equipment I have to get my power inflator replaced on my BC it just disintegrated in my hand on my last dive seriously like the button fell off in the spring come out all the air dump out of my BC but all of my equipment is 20 years old now
My first dive trip after getting certified was to Cozumel. The currents were so powerful that it was not possible to stay with a buddy. I did manage, just barely, to stay with the DM. I did not surface when I lost my buddy. Neither did he. I told the DM all this after the dive. He didn't seem to care. It was the same the whole trip. First dive of the day was to 80 feet and there was no way of staying with my buddy. (I told the DM before the first dive that I was just OW and had about 8 or 10 total dives logged and was supposed to stay above 60 feet. His response: "You'll be fine at 80 feet." This was a PADI shop.) I don't think I ever had an insta-buddy who cared if we were together or not. And I definitely never had a DM who expected me to know where my buddy was. I'm an old fart now and I don't scuba dive any more. Shallow freediving only.
Another old guy here. I am getting back into diving and am setting myself up with solo gear, (pony tank separate regulator, two dive computers. A dive buddy is useful for a false sense of security.
How common are the "no gloves" rule in dive boats? I can see that it can discourage grabby hand divers, but I sometimes get a hell of a workout gripping on to the rope barehanded as I do a deco stop and I am like a flag flapping in the wind from the uw currents.
No gloves? Never heard of such a rule, personally if anyone tried to tell me I wasn't allowed gloves when diving I'd be telling them exactly what I thought and it probably wouldn't be polite.
The places we've been with a "No Gloves" rule, it hasn't been the dive boat. It's been the local marine area. Many marine preserves have instituted the rule under the reasoning that gloved divers are more likely to touch coral surfaces, etc. This rule was the case for both the preserve areas in Cozumel and Roatan.
@@Hoomi2 put like that I can see sense in it but personally I still wear gloves on virtually every dive I do, and not so I can touch the reef or whatever I'm diving on.
I wear gloves most dives as well, primarily because I have that great Celtic heritage skin that burns if I even think about the sun. I dive with a full-body rashguard for UV protection, and gloves to block the UV from my hands. I've learned to take Reef-safe sunscreen with us on dive trips, just in case of such rules.
If you wanna reduce your air consumption, small movements, relax and short inhales, long exhales. Buddy of mine burned his entire tank in one dive and I had over half mine left. The local guide and I worked on him and the last dive, he had more left in his tank than I did. Don’t fight your gear, good buoyancy, relax, and try not to use your arms.
One nitpick: Asking permission to come aboard (albeit informally) is still VERY important on dive boats. Before the divers board, hatches are often open. Every captain has a story of somebody falling and hurting themselves. It doesn't take an idiot either-it's remarkably easy to hurt yourself on a boat. The captain's most fundamental job is to save your ass. Help keep their job easy.
"Bloody hell, I'm as rough as toast, you should of seen the drink I got through lastnight!", I imagine that's one. I'm doing a open water course now, and our pool sessions are late on, so, me, thinking I would be fine, inadvertently *cough* ended up drinking far too much the day before... And even though when I got to the pool, I felt fine to a certain degree, when I was doing exercises, boy was I wrong... It was hard, I suffered, I was using air like it was going out of fashion, getting cramp all the time, and the aches I had the next day were surreal... Major lesson learnt there, and if in the future I'm out in open water, and someone mentions they were out the night before, I'll be like "Oh dear"!!!
X2 with that one. I HATE when people won't shut up for 5 minutes. Shows total disrespect for the dive team and the idiots talking are most likely the first ones to need help or to screw up.
Yes, you can get university credits for PADI classes, their website has more details Some schools even offer diving classes and have fisheries and other aquatic biologists doing frequent dives.
"I know we said our dive plan was 40'-60' but I had had to drop down to 120 to look at effectively the same scenery that existed at 50#." My dive buddy didn't say this, but it is what he did. And he KNEW he was at that depth. For over 5 minutes. I'm glad the vis was good because I just floated at 50# watching him and getting more pissed off that he never once looked at or for me. Back on the boat, I kept my cool as best as possible but informed him that I wasn't happy. I told him if he ever blew the plan including completely ignoring me on another dive, I'd never dive with him again. This was like 2 day of 5 on a liveaboard. Happily he did better. He passed away a few years later in a paragliding incident, so I guess I really won't be diving with him again (or getting back the dive book I loaned him :) ).
@@simplyscuba Feeling great! Tomorrow I have my last dive and theoretical exam towards my open water certification! I'm stoked!! Glad I found your channel, great for a newb like me to learn from people with such experience!
Most divers in bad vis places like uk don't come up when losing a buddy as it would make diving a very short experience...every boat & hundreds of dives & almost nobody insisted on returning to the surface if we split.the skipper generally says just go down with someone so he is covered.. Just use a twinset two knives two lights & don't push the limits.i know this isn't safe but it's not practical to spend the whole dive watching each other incase you drift 3 m away & disappear.so if I lose a buddy we just carry on.people who say well I won't dive with you the....good I don't want to void a dive because I lost you unless your under my supervision or very green then I'll stick with you..
Erm, uk diver here and if someone did that on the boat we go out in, the skipper would skin them alive! The only exception to that is if the diver seperated are solo divers and it has been pre agreed on procedure.
Add this one to part two please " hey everyone I just want y'all to know I'm a light weight drinker so my gage is set to one as 30 bars or more is wayyy too advanced, ok let's go diving because I'm ready 💪😊😉😀"!!!!!.
