diving mishaps

[shamre]

Opening a thread for divers to tell their stupid mishaps or mistakes they have made while diving. The reason for this is so that we can learn from them. And since it is hard to swallow pride i will start off.

Was doing a two tank dive on the madeira and at end of day took our tanks to be filled. since we were only going to do one dive the next day i only took one tank to fill. The next day i hooked up my gear and trucked it all down to the beach and was ready to get in when i looked at my psi gauge and showed 600 psi. whoops! The moral of this story is, if you have a long trek to the dive site, get your gear all setup and check your gauges and gear out before you make the trek down to the dive site. Now this wasn't a critical error but more of an inconvenience, it was my first time diving the madeira and i was excited and forgot to check my air level at the car.

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