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Originally Posted by BouzoukiJoe
I think the worst part about it, looking back on it all is that my wife was watching it all from her beach chair. I really impressed her with my manly competence that day.
I made the mistake of entering the water with mask off and reg not in my mouth. At least my air was turned on. I bent over to put my fins on between wave sets and I missed one- I stuck my leg through the strap instead of into the fin- while I was trying to correct that a huge wave crashed on top of me. Without a tank and a bunch of weight it wouldn't have been a big deal. Every time I tried to stand another wave would hit me and roll me again. I finally had the bright idea to put my mask on and put the damn reg in my mouth. Doh! When I had air to breath, things started improving. I was able to fix the fin without standing up. I was already exhausted and I hadn't even started to swim out to the wreck. The right call would have been to pack it in. But I swam out to the wreck out of breath with eyes burning from the sea water and sand. If there had been a current running that day, I would have been in serious trouble. We were at least smart enough to watch the foam for signs of current. It was just very slight longshore that day.
I'm glad I did it. I usually learn at least one thing on every dive. I learned a seasons worth on that one dive. In NC I much prefer boat diving, in Bonaire it might be a different story.
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Stop already homeboy
I am downtown here with tears of laughter going down my face.
I'm now officially scared of beach diving. Who knew? I thought I was supposed to be scared of deep diving in current.
Just wait until some of these non Atlantic ocean folks visit Hatteras and try this themselves thinking that surely they won't have such troubles. I'm telling you folks, Mother Ocean is in charge here.