I sink in fresh water, and I struggle to stay afloat in seawater. Hang a BC on me and/or give me a good mask and snorkel or a full tank and a regulator, and I’m 100% at home in the water. I’m one of the lucky types who have no qualms about sharing a regulator in order to get somebody back to the surface safely. And I haven’t had a tank on my back since 1992, dammit.
I’m one of the lucky types who have no qualms about sharing a regulator in order to get somebody back to the surface safely
I think that’s pretty much a critical point that you have to have for your dive buddy! If they will not share a regulator there’s no need to dive with them.
In fact I’m pretty sure everyone I’ve ever been on a dive boat with would be willing to share a reg at 90 ft if one of them failed.
If you’re going deep. Into a cave/consticteded space. You better have preser spare tanks. And egress. And turnaround. And help on the surface. Directly. Above.
You could not pay me enough to do a cave dive. Never mind the people who do it for fun. Maybe watched too much “scary interesting”/related channels.
Wedging my shoulders into a small tunnel/pipe. Even if it wasn’t under water. Never going to be for me.
@blaineg@chienfou@unksol 45+ years ago, a now-deceased friend arrived at a cave dive site with two other experienced divers, and found a Jeep parked at the access, and no one around. They assumed the worst, shifted to potential recovery mode, and headed down. Very short version, there was one survivor and one fatality. It was a while before he dove that one again.
@blaineg@chienfou@werehatrack I wouldn’t say I’m claustrophobic. But I’m definitely not up for worming my way down a narrowing corridor/squeezing in places. Some other true stories about caves.
And never mind getting lost/ turned around. What if you just can’t go further. It’s a dead end. And you can’t back out.
As an inflatable pooltoy you’d think yes but also maybe no. (I actually am a very competent swimmer, have had my proper sea legs since a very early age.)
I do not know anymore. I cannot remember the last time I tried to swim.
@yakkoTDI yep. Same here.
@yakkoTDI Hydrodementia?
I’d like to swim more but don’t like swimming pools and live to far from the ocean…
I sink in fresh water, and I struggle to stay afloat in seawater. Hang a BC on me and/or give me a good mask and snorkel or a full tank and a regulator, and I’m 100% at home in the water. I’m one of the lucky types who have no qualms about sharing a regulator in order to get somebody back to the surface safely. And I haven’t had a tank on my back since 1992, dammit.
@werehatrack
/showme a person with a tank on their back
@werehatrack
I think that’s pretty much a critical point that you have to have for your dive buddy! If they will not share a regulator there’s no need to dive with them.
In fact I’m pretty sure everyone I’ve ever been on a dive boat with would be willing to share a reg at 90 ft if one of them failed.
@mediocrebot Witness!
@chienfou @werehatrack @blaineg. On an open dive sure.
If you’re going deep. Into a cave/consticteded space. You better have preser spare tanks. And egress. And turnaround. And help on the surface. Directly. Above.
You could not pay me enough to do a cave dive. Never mind the people who do it for fun. Maybe watched too much “scary interesting”/related channels.
Wedging my shoulders into a small tunnel/pipe. Even if it wasn’t under water. Never going to be for me.
/youtube scary interesting cave dives
@blaineg @chienfou @unksol 45+ years ago, a now-deceased friend arrived at a cave dive site with two other experienced divers, and found a Jeep parked at the access, and no one around. They assumed the worst, shifted to potential recovery mode, and headed down. Very short version, there was one survivor and one fatality. It was a while before he dove that one again.
@blaineg @chienfou @werehatrack I wouldn’t say I’m claustrophobic. But I’m definitely not up for worming my way down a narrowing corridor/squeezing in places. Some other true stories about caves.
And never mind getting lost/ turned around. What if you just can’t go further. It’s a dead end. And you can’t back out.
IDK. Def not for me
Why did the vegetarians stop swimming?
They don’t like meets.
Well, I love going down, for bearded clams…
I swim like a rock . . .
@hammi99 Are you a lifeguard?
@macromeh HAHAHAHAHA if only, on both counts!
/giphy dog paddle
@f00l
Actually was once more than a decent swimmer. Prob still could swim around. Would need practice.
And one more in this lifetime …
/youtube once in a lifetime
@f00l Same as it ever was…
I speak fluent dolphin.
Eeeee eeeeeee eeeeeee ee eee eeeeee
@OnionSoup Your accent cracks me up!
I immediately understood the Zaireeka reference because I’m a hippy that used to work in a record store and i had a(4) copy(ies).
@brianebel who visits meh almost daily lol
I grew up in the water. I’m not like lifeguard swimming material but I can hold my own.
As an inflatable pooltoy you’d think yes but also maybe no. (I actually am a very competent swimmer, have had my proper sea legs since a very early age.)