Never Quit!! Looking for the flipper
I hit the water yesterday at 6:15 beside the Coast Guard station at Wrightsville Beach. This is a deep channel and even though it was low tide at 15 feet from the shore you are already in 6 feet of water. The sun hadn't broken the horizon it was clear but very cloudy and had just started to rain. I was trying to get my right flipper on when I dropped my left one and it sunk to the bottom. They cost me $80.00 a couple of years ago when a neighbor's lab picked up one of my last last pair and took it somewhere never to be seen again.
I threw the right one on the beach and spent five minutes diving and searching but a dark green fin is hard to see and the current was picking up. I was thinking about giving up but Winston Churchill's admonition concerning quitting came to mind. I widened my search and ten minutes later I found the damn thing. I was proud of my perseverance.[:)]
I threw the right one on the beach and spent five minutes diving and searching but a dark green fin is hard to see and the current was picking up. I was thinking about giving up but Winston Churchill's admonition concerning quitting came to mind. I widened my search and ten minutes later I found the damn thing. I was proud of my perseverance.[:)]
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Congrats Ricci! You have restored my faith in an area of lost stuff which includes left socks, and all the things that come in pairs that we two legger's depend on!
You inspire me to go back and keep looking for those twin gals that gave me their phone # back in '73, which got washed in my old jeans![:D]0 -
those little brown bunnies wouldn't help you????[;)] 0 -
You know why scuba divers fall backwards out of the boat?
If they fell forward they would still be in the boat!
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quote:Originally posted by Brookwood
Congrats Ricci! You have restored my faith in an area of lost stuff which includes left socks, and all the things that come in pairs that we two legger's depend on!
You inspire me to go back and keep looking for those twin gals that gave me their phone # back in '73, which got washed in my old jeans![:D]
Years ago in a small town in Virginia, beautiful magical summer night, my two buddies and I were leaving a rehearsal dinner. We're sitting there in the car, and a jeep drives by full of cute girls and they all wave and hold their beers and wine coolers up. My buddy's wife was leaving him, and he's driving and all bitter, and he says, "Oh, they're just being silly" and turns and drives off the other way.
My other buddy and I STILL give him chit about this, and when I pause and really think about it, I still get damn mad.0 -
Was a freshman in high school, been diving for a while, just got cave certified. Had just spend $250 on a really nice bright cave diving light for primary, moved my old to secondary, and kept my pair or third chances.
First dive, coming up a straight wall from 60 feet, break surface, go to clip light onto D-ring on vest so I can climb out, missed the D-ring and watched the light fall to the bottom. Cave system was like a flask, with a mound in the middle, light rolled down the side and ended up in 80 feet of water in the cavern zone (overhead environment but natural light available).
Fortunately next pair of divers came up holding it a few minutes later... my buddy and I were gonna have to stay top side for 4 hours to gain enough time to bounce to the bottom, find it, and come back up without worrying about decompression stops...0
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