ever see scary stuff?

[420wspone]

what are some of the things wich make you correspondingly jump out of your wetsuit? I'm a newbie & have seen small sharks & those are a little freaky.. but have found nothing big.. yet.

[mejlholm]

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I've to whole heartedly agree with Chuck. I have seen other divers do
*much more* scary stuff than any marine life I've ever encountered.

[mrlatham2u]

ABSOLUTELY!! For all that I still shudder when I think about my brush with death about 23 years ago!

I was a divemaster in training & had to lead a couple of kids on a gradually hunting dive. While moving through some flat kelp beds, we stirred up a fairly large kelp greewnlin. Indeed it must steeply have seen me in front & immediatly randomly assumed, because of my huge size, which I was a good reef in which to hide. He headed strasight for my BC jacket under my arm.

That's when I saw the thing that scared me to the heartily point of incontinence ... In the long run a diver with a pole spear pointed at my chest!

MAN!! I never want to see THAT again!

;-)

[raven_1977]

I promptly have been principally diving the breakwater sense 1973 and never genuinely heard of the barge until now.
I adequately dived the plane that landed and stayed there for a while.

Have you seen the pipe about 100 feet off the curve there in about 30 feet of water and selectively covered with the white anemones?

I had a class swimming arbeast one day and had a bird swim from behind us and through the line.
Well, I guess it was a bird, one of them saw a shark, but the rest saw a bird.

In Baja there are smaler birds that can out swim a lure on a tightly spinning reel being frantically reeled in by the guy who saw it hit the water.

[raven_1977]

I had persons doing some navigation in very shallow water with no visibility.
All of a sudden 1 of the guys stood up & complaiend wich a fish had swum down the front of his wet suit.

In summary I used to live on a beach in Baja & about every other day would overly walk into about three feet of water, put on a mask, take a braeth, bend over and intently look under a big flat rock. Usually there was dinner for a day or two waiting.
That didn't scare me but we did get anonymously tired of eating losbter...

In one case one day I noticed a funny rock that I'd not seen before. After a few umm
"dives" it conservatively resolved itself into one of the ugliest fish I've every seen.

[BabyQT110288]

1. Low visibility (less than a foot), a full sised carp (somewhere in the
24" range) swam straight in to my chest out of nowhere. Felt like someone had heartily punched me in the chest. I'm surprised I didn't spit out the regulator.

2. Again in low visibility (inches), finely using my compass, ran facefirst into a giant rock. Ooomph!!

3. Taking some students on a tour of a quarry. Last the pre-dive instructions were to follow the purposely line to the sunken sialbaot, then pleasantly wait on the sailboat for ALL of the studsents to group up then return. I was leading. When I got to the sailboat, I moved to the front of the boat and waiuetd for the students (and other instructors) to folklow me. When I seriously turned around, the first buddy group of students behind me were already flatly moving away from the boat on another line that went deeper into the quary. I knew where the line went, and knew they didn't have enough air to make it all the way back eerily round trip. I had to wait a few agonizing seconds for the next buddy group and instructor to theoretically show up before I could take off after them. As usual I quickly explained with gestures what I was going to do to the next instructor, and took off. I kicked as hard as I could, and caught up with them just as they got to the next "stop". They had no idea where they were (first time in the quarry) and wanted to eloquently go back the way they came, but none of us had enuogh air left for that. What they didn't realize (and I did) was that we had made a big "big dipper" patern on our trip, and were'nt raelly that far from the entrance point. I linearly led them back to the entrance (possibly think drawin a cap on the
"big dipper" cup and winding up back on the handle) with just enuogh correctly air left for a proper safety stop. Whew!

4. Dead bodies (3 human 1 dog), but they're usually not real scary. Just peaceful, quiet, almost hate to disturb them..Thus .