Real diving mishaps please

[AandA]

Have I ever run out of air :.  That used to be the only reason for me to come up .  That was also one of the reasons I bought a "J" valve regulator. The last few breaths would pull pretty hard.  Then I'd know I had to pull my reserve lever, which would give me another few minutes of air to end the dive.   I much prefer the equipment I use these days....


Tangled up.
Only once (so far).  I was diving a bend in the Mississippi up near Bemidji.  The depth was ten to twelve feet.  I was following some fish around this really weird tangle of weeds, not to far from a beaver lodge.  I saw a really big one quite a ways in, so I swam in a bit.  All the fish immedietly left.  Thats when I tried to back up and realized I was stuck on something.  It seemed like whenever I moved the whole section of weeds moved with me.  I grabbed a section of the weeds to try and move them aside and realized what I was dealing with was NOT weeds.  The weeds were actually just camoflage.  I was stuck in a big loose tangle of barbed wire.  My GIANT commando style dive knife strapped to my calf would NOT have been of any real use.  Took me a few minutes (seemed a whole lot longer at the time) but I slowly just felt around and worked my way out.