Lizardland
26-11-07, 14:47
On one of my first dives in a drysuit I went diving with a club trip to the SOM. On the first dive I was buddied with the owner of a well known Glasgow dive shop (don't want to break the TOS :D ) who thought it would be good to disconnect my drysuit hose (only slightly, just enough that air wouldn't flow but still looked connected) at the end of the buddy check. I'd checked my suit feed prior to the dive, it worked and was firmly in place, he'd checked it as part of the buddy check, again everything was OK but then at the end he started pissing about with it. I thought it was a bit weird but I thought nothing more of it.
As I was still getting used to my first suit I was overweighted so when we got in the water I deflated my wing and sank like a bag of ****e. Combined with the current and the weight I went down fast and had really lost control of the descent. We were on the Rondo so I'd tried grabbing bits of the wreck but I kept falling more and with the squeeze I had less and less movement in my arms. It was rating about 9.8 on my sphincter scale. I don't know what depth I got it together at but it was close on 40m from subsequent visits, I managed to get my suit reconnected and went up -- I was in agony, I'd feck all air left and my sphincter was in danger of sucking my undersuit in. When I got home I looked like a red and purple version of The Enigma.
Yep it was a stupid thing to do but it's my responsibility, I should've made certain everything was working before I got in the water and in retrospect I shouldn't have been doing the Rondo with only a few dives in a drysuit under my belt or having been so overweighted.
Lesson learned... no-one touches my kit without them asking me or me asking them, when I do a buddy check they can watch me go through it but they aren't putting a finger on my kit. I chucked a cocky cockney little twerp of a divemaster overboard once because he thought I was joking about it :D
And lesson two... I haven't spent a coin in that shop since:cool:
As I was still getting used to my first suit I was overweighted so when we got in the water I deflated my wing and sank like a bag of ****e. Combined with the current and the weight I went down fast and had really lost control of the descent. We were on the Rondo so I'd tried grabbing bits of the wreck but I kept falling more and with the squeeze I had less and less movement in my arms. It was rating about 9.8 on my sphincter scale. I don't know what depth I got it together at but it was close on 40m from subsequent visits, I managed to get my suit reconnected and went up -- I was in agony, I'd feck all air left and my sphincter was in danger of sucking my undersuit in. When I got home I looked like a red and purple version of The Enigma.
Yep it was a stupid thing to do but it's my responsibility, I should've made certain everything was working before I got in the water and in retrospect I shouldn't have been doing the Rondo with only a few dives in a drysuit under my belt or having been so overweighted.
Lesson learned... no-one touches my kit without them asking me or me asking them, when I do a buddy check they can watch me go through it but they aren't putting a finger on my kit. I chucked a cocky cockney little twerp of a divemaster overboard once because he thought I was joking about it :D
And lesson two... I haven't spent a coin in that shop since:cool: