How to fail your open water test

[EuphoriaII]

a. Tell your instructor you will race him to the surface.
b. Lie face down and motionless while holding your breath.
c. Loudly proclaim that safety stops are for "wossies".
d. Show up with a set of tables based on your own
algorithm "that's WAY better".
e. Spit in your wetsuit and pee in your mask.
f. Ask your instructor, which fin goes on which foot.
g. Tell your instructor there is no way you can lift a cylinder
with 2000 pounds of air in it.
h. When asked for your dive plan, you hand over a bundle of
travel brochures.

[terrillja]

Tell them that you read on the internet that the correct way to do the skill is x, and that the instructor is wrong.

[scubasamurai]

have your instructor on your first OW dive zip up your wetsuit while it is on backwards and doesn't notices. and my favorite not removing the forms from your new fins and asking what are these for!!!!!

[reactive]

Originally Posted by scubasamurai

have your instructor on your first OW dive zip up your wetsuit while it is on backwards and doesn't notices. and my favorite not removing the forms from your new fins and asking what are these for!!!!!

There was a guy in my OW class that was complaining that his fins hurt his feet. He had left the forms in. When the instructor told him to check, 3 other students silently took the forms out of their fins as well! haha

[Rileybri]

I handed my partner a rubber chicken from my BC pocket when we did our OOA drills. Our instructor nearly spit out reg from laughing.Does that count??

[DOWNDEEP73]

While under water doing skills....use hand signals to the instructor for a smoke break

[jbanks27]

1. Continuously try to leave the platform and go deeper than the class... The DM's will love you.
2. Continously ask the instructor how deep they have gone and complain that your not going deep enough for your skills (In front of the class).
3. Do your own ESA without the instructor. Holding your breath on the way up.
4. While on the platform, reach over and turn off your buddies air.
5. While breifing the dive, sneak down to the dock, gear up, and go solo diving while the class doesn't know where you are.
6. Between dives, don't go and refill your tank, 750 pounds should be plenty for your dive.

[coral cowgirl]

Originally Posted by terrillja

Tell them that you read on the internet that the correct way to do the skill is x, and that the instructor is wrong.

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Oh boy....yep, that'll do it.

[Charles R]

When your instucter gives to the sign for remove mask and replace rip his off and swim away.

[Scotttyd]

Bring the reeds for underwater basket weaving