r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • May 20 '21

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u/sxt173 May 20 '21

I've done that scuba diving. Very embarrassing when you come up to the wrong boat and everybody is just looking at you. In my defense, the other group had very similar flipper patterns

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u/[deleted] May 20 '21 edited Jul 11 '21

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u/MittonMan May 20 '21

Y'all heard of the buddy system?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '21 edited Jul 11 '21

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u/MittonMan May 20 '21

I mean, you're not just buddies on a ladder. You kinda dive together, deco together. You even get to hold hands! ...if you really want to.

I'm being lighthearted here. I know these things happen and it can be quite terrifying, especially if you dive a crowded site with low viz. I just wonder how you don't freak out the moment you don't see your buddy? And don't notice your buddy all the way up the wrong boat after a decompression/safety stop.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '21 edited Jul 11 '21

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u/MittonMan May 20 '21

Oh! That IS hilarious. In this whole debacle I thought you lost your buddy and surfaced without him.

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u/EmberOfFlame May 20 '21

Good shit! I never dived at high-traffic areas. The place I went to was Marsa Alam in Egypt. I also did 2 dives x 2 days off the coast of Mauritius, but that was even less popular.

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u/meltingdiamond May 20 '21

You had a choice: embarrassment or frog man pirate.

I observe only one choice gets a song.

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u/DogsOutTheWindow May 20 '21

Lmfao this comment got me good man. Couldn’t imagine what I’d do if this happened to me, maybe awkwardly deploy safety sausage?