So what have you lost? (add boat dive ladder to the list of mine....argh!
)What have you done to attempt to recover what you have lost? (search patterns rock!)
What do you think is the most often piece of gear lost? (I have my theories...)
A gift to the Dive Gods...
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Posted 15 September 2006 - 03:34 PM
Maybe there are some of those out there who have been so lucky to have never lost a piece of dive equipment - wish I was one of them. But I am not. I have done my fair share of losing items to the Dive Gods. Why just this past weekend my dive buddy and I both delivered our sea snips to the gods. Mine was over a wall and unrecoverable, his was in the shallows of a silty seaweedy bay and just unfindable!
So what have you lost? (add boat dive ladder to the list of mine....argh! )
What have you done to attempt to recover what you have lost? (search patterns rock!)
What do you think is the most often piece of gear lost? (I have my theories...)
So what have you lost? (add boat dive ladder to the list of mine....argh!
)What have you done to attempt to recover what you have lost? (search patterns rock!)
What do you think is the most often piece of gear lost? (I have my theories...)
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
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Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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Posted 15 September 2006 - 03:53 PM
Maybe there are some of those out there who have been so lucky to have never lost a piece of dive equipment - wish I was one of them. But I am not. I have done my fair share of losing items to the Dive Gods. Why just this past weekend my dive buddy and I both delivered our sea snips to the gods. Mine was over a wall and unrecoverable, his was in the shallows of a silty seaweedy bay and just unfindable!
So what have you lost? (add boat dive ladder to the list of mine....argh!
What have you done to attempt to recover what you have lost? (search patterns rock!)
What do you think is the most often piece of gear lost? (I have my theories...)
Mask and snorkle
back-up depth guage
dive knife
compass
goody bag
2 dive lights, (one primary, one backup)
Did a search for the first two, no luck. Did not search for the dive knife, compass, or goody bag because they were not worth the effort. Primary dive light later washed up on the beach 4 months later and was returned to me. The light was no good, but it didn't flood and the batteries ($70 worth) were still good. Back-up light was found and returned to me w/in a couple days. It pays to put your name and phone # on gear.
My guess on the most often lost piece of gear is probably the mask.
Edited by Brinybay, 18 September 2006 - 09:35 AM.
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Posted 15 September 2006 - 04:05 PM
I once reached to unbolt my Sea & Sea MX-5 to take a picture of my son off WPB and the camera was gone, out there in the North Atlantic gire I suppose. The camera is positive but too small to see bobing on the surface.
At a couple of local dives popular with students I find a lot of weights, weight pockets, knifes and snorkels.
I once found an expensive 2nd stage with the LP hose broken off at the threads, back on deck I found the diver, he had dropped his rig on the deck before the dive and the hose came off at 90', the air was gone soon after. Yet another reason for a back up air supply.
At a couple of local dives popular with students I find a lot of weights, weight pockets, knifes and snorkels.
I once found an expensive 2nd stage with the LP hose broken off at the threads, back on deck I found the diver, he had dropped his rig on the deck before the dive and the hose came off at 90', the air was gone soon after. Yet another reason for a back up air supply.
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Posted 15 September 2006 - 04:09 PM
Lol i seem to do this a little more often then i would like. my list includes pins for the slap strap to my mask, 2 spools, 3 sets of find staps, and a nikonos camera body
to recover, back track search patterns, but is hard to do in a muddy bottom and looking for dark colored parts.
most often piece i would say fin straps due to breakage
as for the sea snips, you can get a replacement pair from galls.com for much less then you paid for them
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to recover, back track search patterns, but is hard to do in a muddy bottom and looking for dark colored parts.
most often piece i would say fin straps due to breakage
as for the sea snips, you can get a replacement pair from galls.com for much less then you paid for them
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Posted 15 September 2006 - 04:35 PM
The only equipment I lost is the gear I lent to one of my friends...he still has it.
As for the broken second stage...instead of a backup air supply maybe he shouldn't drop his gear.
As for the broken second stage...instead of a backup air supply maybe he shouldn't drop his gear.
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Posted 15 September 2006 - 05:20 PM
I've never lost anything on a dive... I did sit on a reel once.
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Posted 15 September 2006 - 08:50 PM
I didn't lose the snips on a dive it was when I was taking my gear off I unstrapped my harness and the snips slid off before I could catch them DAR!!!
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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Posted 15 September 2006 - 09:11 PM
Lost my boat some 30 years ago.
Recover it? Why would I want to do something foolish like that?
Well, it's not virginity. My guess is dive knives since I find more of those than anything else.
Recover it? Why would I want to do something foolish like that?
Well, it's not virginity. My guess is dive knives since I find more of those than anything else.
Edited by drbill, 15 September 2006 - 09:12 PM.
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Posted 15 September 2006 - 09:21 PM
Lost a weight pouch and a dive knife in roatan both were recovered 
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Posted 15 September 2006 - 11:47 PM
I lost a fin in the cold murky waters at Clear Springs one year on my check out dive no less.....fortunately the Gods felt bad for me and delivered it to me!! Oh what a lucky girl I am!!
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Posted 16 September 2006 - 12:02 AM
I lost my watch on a dive in Utila earlier this year. I had placed it in my BC pocket while gearing up and forgot to return it to my wrist or zip my pocket.
Looked for it but could not find it. Counted it gone.
One of the other divers returned to the boat.. Asking if anyone with tiny little wrists had lost this ~ pulled it out of his pocket.
Thank you again.. Kevinpo...
I will admit ~ every two years or so the water gods of Puget Sound require me to drop them a cell phone.
I have lost 2 so far. They always let me see it fall.. and allow me to take it back.
Unfortunately ~ they never work after a brief dip in the salty brine.
Looked for it but could not find it. Counted it gone.
One of the other divers returned to the boat.. Asking if anyone with tiny little wrists had lost this ~ pulled it out of his pocket.
Thank you again.. Kevinpo...
I will admit ~ every two years or so the water gods of Puget Sound require me to drop them a cell phone.
I have lost 2 so far. They always let me see it fall.. and allow me to take it back.
Unfortunately ~ they never work after a brief dip in the salty brine.
Edited by gis_gal, 16 September 2006 - 12:03 AM.
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Posted 16 September 2006 - 05:13 PM
I will admit ~ every two years or so the water gods of Puget Sound require me to drop them a cell phone.
I have lost 2 so far. They always let me see it fall.. and allow me to take it back.
Unfortunately ~ they never work after a brief dip in the salty brine.
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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Posted 16 September 2006 - 05:28 PM
This is not a contest where I want to be a winner but...
wrist computer (never found)
wrist compass (never found)
light (never found)
1 fin (found)
knife (found)
Someone located knife but didn't pick it up. I went back, did another dive and found it.
Found fin on beach the next day. Originally lost it due to cold hands walking out of the water. Lost knife due to broken sheath.
Lost wrist compass and computer (2 separate occassions) both were bungeed on, when something bumped compass/computer when I didn't feel it, slipped off unnoticed. Computer loss was when diving off a Zodiac and ungearing in the water before jumping back in (bottom was 180 fsw here). Computer was lost recently during a night dive when several Ratfish bumped me and apparently knocked the compass off.
Lost light after I surfaced in 10' of water. Normally I keep it clipped the entire dive. This time I didn't and let go of the light thinking it was clipped off. It wasn't.
Even if I win this contest I guess it still makes me "the loser".
wrist computer (never found)
wrist compass (never found)
light (never found)
1 fin (found)
knife (found)
Someone located knife but didn't pick it up. I went back, did another dive and found it.
Found fin on beach the next day. Originally lost it due to cold hands walking out of the water. Lost knife due to broken sheath.
Lost wrist compass and computer (2 separate occassions) both were bungeed on, when something bumped compass/computer when I didn't feel it, slipped off unnoticed. Computer loss was when diving off a Zodiac and ungearing in the water before jumping back in (bottom was 180 fsw here). Computer was lost recently during a night dive when several Ratfish bumped me and apparently knocked the compass off.
Lost light after I surfaced in 10' of water. Normally I keep it clipped the entire dive. This time I didn't and let go of the light thinking it was clipped off. It wasn't.
Even if I win this contest I guess it still makes me "the loser".
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Posted 17 September 2006 - 02:55 PM
The dive Gods must have one leg, they took my fin in North Carolina, so far thats all, Some one bring a virgin before it's too late.......... lol
Edited by ereediver, 17 September 2006 - 02:55 PM.
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Posted 17 September 2006 - 03:46 PM
Other than I glove I had caught on a line, I did sacrifice a virgin to the dive gods a few years back. Well she said it was her first time on a dive boat anyway. 
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