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[Mermaid Lady]

I grabbed a guy's fin on a trip and have been known ever since as "finGrabber"!

I grabbed Kimmie's fin in Grenada once.

[Scubatooth]

I have a few nicknames depending on what and where i was at the time.... oh my diving one, yeah well its not because im a dentist as i hate dentists.

my diving nickname came about during my first open water decent. My OW checkout dives where in cold water on a cold November day, and on that first decent i started to have a bit of pain in my jaw that got worse till i got to about 20 feet when it felt like i got shot and I bailed out of the dive screaming in pain all the way to the surface. well when i got to the surface i had everyone on the docks attention as they said they heard the scream from the parking lot a 100yards back. Well that ended that weekend of checkout dives and i saw the dentist on monday morning and x-rays revealed i had suffered a reverse squeeze in a filling that pressed on a nerve causing the pain, and then in the process of surfacing i fractured the filling so it had to be redone. Since then i have been called scubatooth, and its a nick i have used on other dive boards as well.

[hambergler]

http://flickr.com/ph...157603012476634

Mine is related to my motorcycle roadracing leathers (see Racer184). In 20 years of racing, after a while I decided I had to have a custom set of Vanson leathers. First I got Ducati red, then a multicolored suit (aka The Clown Suit), then a set that was alternating black and white 3" horizontal stripes. These last leathers were a big hit at the track, and people started calling me "jailbird" and then "The Hamburglar"; I simply substituted my last name, and I was "The Hambergler".

Interestingly, and within about ten minutes of this photo being taken in 2005, I was on the way to College Station Medical Center with a broken femur and medial malleolus. Five days in the hospital, and I have the titanium and stainless hardware to show for it. Went back to racing until this past year, when another unfortunate spill led to 12 days in the same exact hospital. I am now a retired racer.

Edited by hambergler, 06 February 2009 - 09:55 PM.

[damselfish]

Like i said on the other thread.. just was looking for a girl name and had seen a bunch of damselfish. ~ D

[Scubatooth]

Like i said on the other thread.. just was looking for a girl name and had seen a bunch of damselfish. ~ D

and it fits perfectly for you Belinda

[ASDmike]

Well, I added ASD to my first name for two reasons and then the confusion started. Most people thought it had something to do with SingleDiver, as in something like "a SD mike", nope not that-- plus I didn't know the SD abbreviation for the site at the time. And there is also another funny story about a wrong guess, but I'll have to tell that later.

So the first real reason is a diving challenge I always gave myself not to be. In my early diving days I traveled often with my first dive shop and the group always met afterward for a slide show. (Anybody here remember slides? ) So as part of these get togethers, they would give out "awards". I never did win the trip ASD award, probably only since new divers were rightfully exempt from that one. But the fear of being known as the trip ASD made an impression on me. So I switched my thinking by considering myself the worst ASD and built from there on every dive to learn the skills I saw in the experienced divers.

So getting back to when I joined, I had never used ASDmike before (or since). And while joining a site called singledivers, I then thought of a second reason calling myself an ASD "worked". When I met Kamala some 7 months later, she heard the second reason. Same abbreviation , just another angle. Anyho, figure it out? No, ok... doubleclick here >AirSuckingDog<

[ASDmike]

Like i said on the other thread.. just was looking for a girl name and had seen a bunch of damselfish. ~ D

and it fits perfectly for you Belinda

True. But the other thread had some pretty good posts too. Besides Simon's great explanation, Belinda made some interesting comments on her choosing her name.

Maybe a moderator will help us out by getting out the scissors, moving the "name" posts here where they belong, and leaving an explanation and link there?

[Monkey Diver]

My girlfriend called me that a very long time ago, it stuck, and the name lasted longer than she did. I don't remember exactly why she called me that, but I do remember that it was fun and amusing. You'll just have to use your imagination.

[shadragon]

My girlfriend called me that a very long time ago, it stuck, and the name lasted longer than she did. I don't remember exactly why she called me that, but I do remember that it was fun and amusing. You'll just have to use your imagination.

Thankfully the many suggestions my ex made didn't stick.

I once had a half million volts discharge through my temple when working on some military gear. The nick 'Sparky' was inevitable, but luckily I was posted soon after and no one on the new base knew the story. One of the up-sides was I became mostly psychic. I can tell you the results of a coin flip beforehand almost 50% of the time!

[DiverBabs]

My girlfriend called me that a very long time ago, it stuck, and the name lasted longer than she did. I don't remember exactly why she called me that, but I do remember that it was fun and amusing. You'll just have to use your imagination.

Thankfully the many suggestions my ex made didn't stick.

I once had a half million volts discharge through my temple when working on some military gear. The nick 'Sparky' was inevitable, but luckily I was posted soon after and no one on the new base knew the story. One of the up-sides was I became mostly psychic. I can tell you the results of a coin flip beforehand almost 50% of the time!

So... do tell.... "Shadragon"???? Did I miss something oh psychic one?

[Hipshot]

My girlfriend called me that a very long time ago, it stuck, and the name lasted longer than she did. I don't remember exactly why she called me that, but I do remember that it was fun and amusing. You'll just have to use your imagination.

I don't know if it's the same meaning, but back in the late 70's we had a term "gorilla diver." This was someone who was hell-bent on removing artifacts from sunken shipwrecks, the deeper the better, even if it meant distain for things like no-decompression limits or other common sense procedures. It was sort-of a macho/trophy thing. As one might suspect, however, most gorilla divers didn't practice the "art" for too long.

Rick



I still have the same home. I still drink the same beer. I still use the same pubs in London - usually the public bars because that’s where the action is. And I think I still have the same friends from my broke days - those that were real friends that is.--Patrick McGoohan, on how success hadn't changed him

[shadragon]

So... do tell.... "Shadragon"???? Did I miss something oh psychic one?

You did. Look in page 12 of the 'Shout Out' thread for my nick origin story.

Click here. It might work.


Origin story now post 10 in this thread...

Edited by uwfan, 07 February 2009 - 11:37 PM.
Changed link so we can find the story

[divzac]

My girlfriend called me that a very long time ago, it stuck, and the name lasted longer than she did. I don't remember exactly why she called me that, but I do remember that it was fun and amusing. You'll just have to use your imagination.

Thankfully the many suggestions my ex made didn't stick.

I once had a half million volts discharge through my temple when working on some military gear. The nick 'Sparky' was inevitable, but luckily I was posted soon after and no one on the new base knew the story. One of the up-sides was I became mostly psychic. I can tell you the results of a coin flip beforehand almost 50% of the time!

I had an X wife that was psychic......she knew beforehand every time we were going to have sex........

[Victoria]

I've got a couple nicknames which I opted not to use here for some reason. More often than not, I tend to use ichaseballoons for my moniker, both on email accounts and IM stuff. Before I dove into scuba, I was a hot air balloonist. I served as crew chief for a company in Colorado which catered to the tourism industry, and we had as many as five large balloons up on flyable mornings. It kept me busy, and I LOVED it. I was also a student pilot...didn't finish training for my commercial license before I moved to Texas, and at some point I'll get that done too!

I had an opportunity to buy that balloon company once, but needed a partner I could trust who also had the capital to match my contribution...and didn't find one with both qualifications... More's the pity!

It's ALL about the neutral buoyancy, y'all!!!

[Mitch0129]

I don't know if it's the same meaning, but back in the late 70's we had a term "gorilla diver." This was someone who was hell-bent on removing artifacts from sunken shipwrecks, the deeper the better, even if it meant distain for things like no-decompression limits or other common sense procedures. It was sort-of a macho/trophy thing. As one might suspect, however, most gorilla divers didn't practice the "art" for too long.

What is the saying, Rick? There are "old" divers and there are "bold" divers, but there are no "old & bold" divers ....