RIB/ boat mishaps

[alexmaclennan]

These are small beer but:

1. I've backward rolled too vigerously, spun round underwater and split my head on the chine of a RIB.

2. Two buddies collided during a backward roll from a RIB in the Red Sea - the Tank valve/ first stage of one spilt the other's head.

3. Getting into the RIB, you need to get out of your gear - first weight belt, then BCD/tank and hand it up to the boathandler. As I was doing this with the BCD/tank, the reg swung on the hose, smacked me in the mouth and I lost a crown.

4. Don't take your fins off before getting back in the RIB - its bloody difficult to haul yourself in if you cannot kick.

5. I lost a TwinJet fin on a Sound of Mull trip last year. We got back on the boat (Gemini Storm). Quite windy but we were sheltered on the bow. Unfortunately the skipper turned to boat to pick up other divers, wind caught my fins and one was over the side in an instant. Fortunately the Chandlers in Tobermory has a couple of sets of fins so I didn't lose a dive. So keep your gear stowed at all times when out in the open on a boat.

alex

[regthing]

3. Getting into the RIB, you need to get out of your gear - first weight belt, then BCD/tank and hand it up to the boathandler. As I was doing this with the BCD/tank, the reg swung on the hose, smacked me in the mouth and I lost a crown.


Just to reiterate the weight belt first bit. I know of a chap who handed up his BCD/Tank first and was only saved from certain drowning by the boathandler hauling him up by the hair!

(obvioulsy not be because you would need tweezers to grab my hair :D )

[Midton]

I've done a few boat dives with Puffin, their skipper Ian claims never to have lost a piece of kit but has seen plenty of kit plummet to the depths!

Basically, if shipboard doesn't say, "I have it", then don't let go!

Ian asks that you don't fiddle with your kit (ooerr!) until he asks you to get ready for boarding. He then asks for weight belt, checks you have inflated your suit :rolleyes: then asks for BCD & cylinder. From there (having remembered to detach hose from suit!) it's a 1 - 2 - 3 fin like fury and haul yourself over the side of the rib.

I saw one lassie ignore Ian's advice and try to be "helpful!", the upshot was that her weights belt lies in 35+m off Bach Island!

[tomy2tums]

These are small beer but:

alex

I dived off a rib, one that we have both used, where my dive buddy once forgot her flippers! I will not mention any names but you could guess who.

[chris]

I regularly dive off most different types of boats and seen all of the above happen, although regularly (including Sunday there) more and more masks coming off on the backward roll. Diver on Sunday lost his completely.

Seen plenty of lunches lost over the side too, but thats usually after lunch :D

[hickdive]

I've nearly been decapitated by an incompetent RIB driver. I won't go into details but suffice it to say I wont pay to go in that RIB ever again.

[Buchaille]

1] Bad gash on a diver's forehead when her camera in Big Housing got jammed between boat and her head on entry. The divemaster had stressed to take camera from the boat crew after entry. I sewed up the head without local anaesthetic [there was none on the boat]
2] about 4 years ago, bad gash to a diver's leg from boat propeller when he entered before OK from divemaster.
3] gave my kit to boat crew; pony tank fell off [retaining strap was ripped off]. Caught it before it fell on my head or disappeared below.
4] a diver dipped his mask in the water to clean it. Boat going at speed, mask ripped from his hand, and lost it...WHOOSH
Last 3 were from Sound of Mull.

[dive granny]

In the Red Sea after the Thistlegorm dive it was a force 4. The boat man tried to help me and grabbed my main reg. It came out my mouth and I fell back in the water. It wasn't funny.