What is the dumbest thing you have ever seen a diver do?

[reactive]

Originally Posted by DUnder

Failing to open the tank valve (me)

I've done that too. I've also done the one with forgetting the weight belt and not understanding why I'm not sinking. I like to think these are newbie mistakes and since they've happened to me, I'm more conscious about it when I prep for dives.

[Scotttyd]

Someone once told me a guy tried to use his LP hose as a regulator and did not understand why he could not get any air out of it (the captain ended up not letting him dive)

[thor]

During my search and recovery coarse, one of the instructors assistants thought he had hidden an item too easily, and so he told us he was going to re-hide a weight at about 80 feet. We looked and looked and looked some more and nobody could find it. We started running low on air and abandoned the search. Since the weight belonged to one of the instructors, the instructor started looking for it himself, to no avail. When we all got out of the water and back to the tent, the instructor's assistant was holding the weight. Apparently he never got a chance to hide it.

[coral cowgirl]

Sit down, gear up, try to get up..........nope, forgot to undo bungie. (I've done it twice).

[cowgirldiver]

Originally Posted by coral cowgirl

Sit down, gear up, try to get up..........nope, forgot to undo bungie. (I've done it twice).

I'll have to admit to that one myself (and I think it happened more than twice). Made for some good laughs though.

[Charles R]

I have to say this Forgot I was not in a wetsuit

[unclepooty]

Originally Posted by cowgirldiver

I'll have to admit to that one myself (and I think it happened more than twice). Made for some good laughs though.

Georgia, anything you'd like to add??????????????

[Scotttyd]

Originally Posted by DUnder

Failing to open the tank valve (me)

that is not to bad, I just saw that last weekend I was diving, at least it was shore diving and not boatd diving, (a little harder to deal with then)

[DIdiver]

At a rig in the gulf spearfishing - a diver from another boat tried to submerge head first from the surface. He was in full scuba gear, his fins were out of the water and he was kicking like mad. He also had a speargun in his hand. We left - no way was I gona dive on the same rig as this guy.

[violakat03]

I had a 'duh' moment in a pool session last week. We were practicing counting kick cycles for navigation, and we were supposed to do two laps with mask to get the counts right, then a lap without mask (and with a buddy to guide us) to figure out which direction we naturally veer.

My buddy was doing his return lap and I'd take my reg out to talk to him when we reached the wall. He goes under and starts kicking, I for some reason took a big breath to hold and followed ... and after a while, started realizing what I was doing and put my reg back in my mouth.