“What’s the funniest/most thrilling moment you’ve experienced while scuba diving?”

[Letonpower01]

There are always some unexpected surprises when diving -

It could be being ‘punched in the face’ by a school of fish, or it could be a sudden problem with your equipment scaring your soul out of your body ......

What are some of the hilarious / thrilling / What are some of the hilarious/thrilling/unbelievable diving moments everyone has encountered? Let's talk about your stories

" Who gets it! Finding the wetsuit zipper closed while diving (social death moment +1)

What about your experiences?
Being “molested” by sea life?
Or was it the equipment malfunction/failure to operate moment?
Or was it the underwater spectacle of encountering the opposite side of the world altogether?

Please share! Preferably with a picture/video so I can laugh at you (and envy you)!

 

[Mr. X]

A large seal nibbled my fins while I was spearfishing in Devon, around Burgh Island!

Later, I dived down into a dark gulley, so I could watch fish swimming above me but as I swam down, I startled the large seal that was already laying in the dark gulley; likely it had a similar idea/plan to catch passing fish!!

BTW Many sea anglers pack up and leave if a seal shows up.

I figure they have as much or more right to be there. We're using their "larder" for our recreation, after all.

 

[HooSlayer]

Noty favorite moment but I was once spearing with a new set of carbon fins that was too loose and at the bottom of my dive the fin slipped off and started to sink. I did not have enough air to dive down and grab the fin and swim to the surface with one fin so the i shot the carbon fins with a spear gun as it was sinking. Fin had a hole in it thereafter but worked just fine.