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Want to make me feel better? Tell me about your ruined dive trips. Food poisoning? Forgotten equipment? Earthquakes? What happened to ruin your carefully planned trip?
Damn. Tough break dude.Pez7378 wrote:I had a great dive planned. Had all my gear set up, everything well thought out. I was so excited and I knew it was going to be the dive trip of a lifetime. I just needed a buddy. I called around and everyone was busy. The only person I could get to go out with me was Joe..................................
Yeah, that ruined my whole trip.
Poor Joe.... It must be tough to be everybody's whipping boy....Sounder wrote:Damn. Tough break dude.Pez7378 wrote:I had a great dive planned. Had all my gear set up, everything well thought out. I was so excited and I knew it was going to be the dive trip of a lifetime. I just needed a buddy. I called around and everyone was busy. The only person I could get to go out with me was Joe..................................
Yeah, that ruined my whole trip.
Geez - remind me not to go on vacation with you!!60south wrote:I got in a few dives on that Bonaire trip, most of those at the house reef, so it wasn't a total loss. But the vis sucked. There was so much mud in the water it was like diving in soup. (What do you call it when the visibility clears under a layer of muddy water, a mudocline?) The day before I left the sun finally came out and I got a couple dives out near Red Slave, but that was about the best on that trip. I've been back twice since then and had good weather.
Three more!
Fiji 2001: Mosquito bites did it. Really. Overall this was a great trip, even after slicing my heel to the bone on a mangrove root, so I shouldn't complain. A few bites on my shinbone hadn't healed properly because I was diving so much, and in the last few days of the trip they blossomed into ugly, ulcerous sores. (Well hey, you asked!) So instead of diving I sought out a doctor and spent the last couple days trying hard not to lose my lower leg from infection.
Tobago 2006: A week of live-aboard diving on the Peter Hughes boat. This trip had a lot of interesting misadventures, including the eruption of Montserrat which caused a total FUBAR of my airplane reservations. But the real irritation was a stomach bug in the middle of the week -- I was out of action for a couple days, and on an expensive trip with only 5.5 days of diving that's a lot. Grr.
New Zealand 2008: Doing some dives there was a small part of a larger trip, so this wasn't a disaster, but catching a three-day flu-like virus right when I wanted to dive was very poor timing. Kaikoura is the home of whale watching on the south island, and supposedly a good place to dive -- although I wouldn't know, I spent those days in bed. Next time.
glenn
Ah geeze, that bites! I hear there's diving in Ushuaia, did you have a chance to hit the water there?camerone wrote: Antarctica, March 2008 - got 270 lbs of checked luggage, 60 lbs of camera gear, and all my carry-ons safely down to Ushuaia. Got _onboard_ the boat. Had the crew tell us "there's mechanical problems, the boat's not seaworthy until the Russian authorities in St. Petersberg approve it to go back to sea, we've known for three weeks, and so we're not sailing. Go home." Had no choice but to turn around and come all the way back to Seattle, trucking all my gear home.
There's really only one dive op/guy in Ushuaia, and just about everyone who puts together trips is really a front for that guy. He sucks. It's like $100 (US) for a single dive, and, while I would expect that the Beagle Channel has some awesome sites, they're a bit further out.60south wrote:Ah geeze, that bites! I hear there's diving in Ushuaia, did you have a chance to hit the water there?
Your Socorro experience sounds almost like Norwalk virus. Awful, isn't it? It spreads like crazy. I had forgotten about that one... Vanuatu, 2007, the entire hotel where I was staying got it. I felt immune and somewhat smug, but then I got it last. I thought I was gonna die.
Joe is a pygmy?!Pez7378 wrote:Summer '03----So there I was, in the middle of the jungle surrounded by pygmies.......... :rr:
Did I mention the time I had to dive with Joe?
divernick wrote:Here's my story, the quick version anyway. Back in '99, I think, I was signed up for a trip to either Port Hardy or Campbell River (it was a long time ago, i can't remember which it was) on a liveaboard, the Nautilus 7. This was just after the boat had been sold to some new owners while Mike Lever was having the Nautilus Explorer built. The new owners were some young folks, but everything seemed ok at first. The first day, we got one so-so dive in, and then the problems started. The Nautilus 7 had a skiff they towed behind the main boat that we all dived off of. It broke loose 3 times that afternoon. On the 3rd try at gettng it back, one of the crew got swept off the back of the boat. She didn't get picked up till around 11pm that evening when someone on a cruise ship heard her yelling from the water. The boat pulled into a marina somewhere (I forget where now) and we pretty much all got off the boat for a couple hours, keep in mind it was midnight when we pulled in there. The weather had been pretty bad while we were searching for the lost crew member, so things got banged around on the boat quite a bit. We spent the next day cleaning up the boat, and the remaining crew pulled a bunch of rope off the screw. The following day we all went home. And since the skiff was never recovered, turns out the lost crew member saw it sink, we all lost some dive gear; mainly masks, fins, gloves, hoods, lights, small stuff like that. I kept hearing bad stories about that boat for a couple years after that. I think finally the Canadian Coast Guard impounded it.
whoa, that is NUTS. how long was that crew member missing? did you get your money back for that trip and reimbursed for the lost gear?divernick wrote:Here's my story, the quick version anyway. Back in '99, I think, I was signed up for a trip to either Port Hardy or Campbell River (it was a long time ago, i can't remember which it was) on a liveaboard, the Nautilus 7. This was just after the boat had been sold to some new owners while Mike Lever was having the Nautilus Explorer built. The new owners were some young folks, but everything seemed ok at first. The first day, we got one so-so dive in, and then the problems started. The Nautilus 7 had a skiff they towed behind the main boat that we all dived off of. It broke loose 3 times that afternoon. On the 3rd try at gettng it back, one of the crew got swept off the back of the boat. She didn't get picked up till around 11pm that evening when someone on a cruise ship heard her yelling from the water. The boat pulled into a marina somewhere (I forget where now) and we pretty much all got off the boat for a couple hours, keep in mind it was midnight when we pulled in there. The weather had been pretty bad while we were searching for the lost crew member, so things got banged around on the boat quite a bit. We spent the next day cleaning up the boat, and the remaining crew pulled a bunch of rope off the screw. The following day we all went home. And since the skiff was never recovered, turns out the lost crew member saw it sink, we all lost some dive gear; mainly masks, fins, gloves, hoods, lights, small stuff like that. I kept hearing bad stories about that boat for a couple years after that. I think finally the Canadian Coast Guard impounded it.