scuba gods must be unhappy

spatman · Post by **spatman** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:07 pm

it certainly seems like there has been a rash of lost gear, stolen gear, flooded gear, broken gear, etc lately...

so who pissed off Poseidon and what are we going to do to appease him?

Joshua Smith · Post by **Joshua Smith** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:31 pm

spatman wrote:it certainly seems like there has been a rash of lost gear, stolen gear, flooded gear, broken gear, etc lately...

so who pissed off Poseidon and what are we going to do to appease him?

I don't have an answer, but, yeah. I've had more than my share of expensive problems lately....

Blaiz · Post by **Blaiz** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:38 pm

a ten-piece crispy chicken sacrifice would be my standard answer, but i'm not sure whether Poseidon would prefer Long John Silver's or something

Joshua Smith · Post by **Joshua Smith** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 6:11 pm

One axiom I coined is this: "The less you dive, the more your gear will break." It's been especially true for me this summer. I've been joking about Poseidon needing a human sacrifice or something. After my aborted dive yesterday, I'm not joking any more.

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 6:39 pm

I can think of a few people the need some sacrificing..... I say we line them up and make them walk the plank.

Josh, if you aren't feeling like I am bad luck charm, let me know when you want to get back out.

Marc

Grateful Diver · Post by **Grateful Diver** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 6:43 pm

Gods generally prefer sacrificial virgins ... unfortunately, I believe that species went extinct sometime back in the '60's ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

mz53480 · Post by **mz53480** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 6:45 pm

Spatman wrote:....so who pissed off Poseidon and what are we going to do to appease him?...

Appeasement never works. I'm going to get medusa's head and finish this once and for all. Oh, and don't look her in the eyes.

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Too late......

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 6:51 pm

Grateful Diver wrote:Gods generally prefer sacrificial virgins ... unfortunately, I believe that species went extinct sometime back in the '60's ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

If you can find one, give her my number!

spatman · Post by **spatman** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:04 pm

cardiver wrote:
Grateful Diver wrote:Gods generally prefer sacrificial virgins ... unfortunately, I believe that species went extinct sometime back in the '60's ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)
If you can find one, give her my number!

so Ron is actually Poseidon?? go figure.

Tom Nic · Post by **Tom Nic** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:46 pm

Only on weekends.

Geek · Post by **Geek** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:55 pm

Blitz wrote:I can think of a few people the need some sacrificing..... I say we line them up and make them walk the plank.

Josh, if you aren't feeling like I am bad luck charm, let me know when you want to get back out.

Marc

I thought we sacrificed you? WTF??

lamont · Post by **lamont** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:38 pm

Joshua Smith wrote:One axiom I coined is this: "The less you dive, the more your gear will break." It's been especially true for me this summer. I've been joking about Poseidon needing a human sacrifice or something. After my aborted dive yesterday, I'm not joking any more.

I tried to appease the Gods of entropy awhile back by cleaning out my garage and doing a bunch of gear maintenance, and I got karmically repaid by having my car broken into...

I seem to have this sphere of chaos surrounding me lately... I tried to help out on a support dive and wound up not getting into the water because the dive teams had a mud dive and called it early...

BASSMAN · Post by **BASSMAN** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:42 pm

I sacrificed a favorite mask last week at Three Tree N. Not exspensive, it just worked well.

Scubak · Post by **Scubak** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 10:00 am

Nobody is diving enough!
I like the reasoning of Josh, "The less you dive, the more your gear will break."
Kirsten

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 10:27 am

BASSMAN wrote:I sacrificed a favorite mask last week at Three Tree N. Not exspensive, it just worked well.

If you need one I have an extra that you can borrow, Keith.

Tom Nic · Post by **Tom Nic** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:40 am

Scubak wrote:Nobody is diving enough!
I like the reasoning of Josh, "The less you dive, the more your gear will break."
Kirsten

Oooo.... +1 for this theory, and I am a major offender.

January I did my usual 8-12 dives, then every month except my Bonaire & Kauai trip I've only done one or two dives. I will promptly begin to make amends by diving like a madman this month!

Sockmonkey · Post by **Sockmonkey** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 12:41 pm

Scubak wrote:Nobody is diving enough!
I like the reasoning of Josh, "The less you dive, the more your gear will break."
Kirsten

Reasoning and Josh.

Two words rarely seen together sans irony.

-Eric

Grateful Diver · Post by **Grateful Diver** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:42 pm

The gods continue their unhappiness ... had to cut my OW class short today when I suffered some equipment failures. First my can light crapped out on me (no notion why ... worked fine after the dive), then my BCD inflator decided to stick open ... which proved to be "interesting" halfway through OW dive #4 with two students ... :angry:

Decided at that point not to wait for strike 3, thumbed the dive and told the students we'll try again tomorrow ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

4ster · Post by **4ster** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 6:09 pm

Poseidon gave up a sacrifice today, he may be having seconds thoughts!

Tangfish · Post by **Tangfish** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 6:59 pm

Could be my fault. I've been skewing the average from "wet" to "dry" these past few months. I'll try to remedy this, just need to find a few available virgins....

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 8:35 pm

Tangfish wrote:Could be my fault. I've been skewing the average from "wet" to "dry" these past few months. I'll try to remedy this, just need to find a few available virgins....

Good luck with that!

BASSMAN · Post by **BASSMAN** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 3:50 am

cardiver wrote:
BASSMAN wrote:I sacrificed a favorite mask last week at Three Tree N. Not exspensive, it just worked well.
If you need one I have an extra that you can borrow, Keith.

Yes, I would like to borrow it, Thanks!

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 6:43 am

BASSMAN wrote:
cardiver wrote:
BASSMAN wrote:I sacrificed a favorite mask last week at Three Tree N. Not exspensive, it just worked well.
If you need one I have an extra that you can borrow, Keith.
Yes, I would like to borrow it, Thanks!

I'm at work until 4 today if you want to pick it up, Keith.

lamont · Post by **lamont** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 7:28 pm

got in enough nitrogen loading tonight to surface with a bent computer...

found 3 GPOs down at/near olive's den in cove2...

Blaiz · Post by **Blaiz** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 10:29 pm

lamont wrote:got in enough nitrogen loading tonight to surface with a bent computer...

found 3 GPOs down at/near olive's den in cove2...

Aha! Lamont found the 3 missing octos from T-Dock!

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