On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:50:32 -0500, Krazy Kiwi <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Wot funny things have you witnessed? Oh, other than watching a certain >somebuddy swim back to the WRONG boat ;-)) >Viv Hey, that's not hard to do! Practically the entire BOAT of divers swam to the wrong boat on that Cayman Aggressor night dive I had written in reply to your last post. :-) That was a dive the Aggressor used to do with the Little Cayman Diver to attract the Manta named Mollie. The two boats would tied to adjacent moorings (about 100 meters apart) and the two groups of divers would congregate at a nearby sand flat, form a large circle and point all the dive lights skywards, to attract the plankton. The plankton, in turn, brought Mollie for her feast. She would scoop up the plankton attracted by the dive lights, right in the middle of circle where the divers knelt to watch, and would do graceful barrel rolls and other aquatic tricks to maximize her FOOD intake with the least effort. :-) This often went on for 30 minutes or so. Then the groups and divers break up to finish the night dive and head back the boat, by looking for the STROBE in the general direction of the boat. We KNEW the Cayman Aggressor had a flashing strobe and didn't know whether the LCD boat had one or not. So, when there was only ONE FLASHING STROBE in the distance ... :-) Mollie was a regular visitor to that site in Little Cayman in 1993-95. That was one of the hightlights of the liveaboard trip that unfortunately is no longer since there are no longer any Mantas sighted in the Cayman Islands in recent years. I guess the episode was FUNNY in a way, to see all the expressions of divers coming up the ladder AFTER they've been to the wrong boat. I missed the funniest part. We were told a couple of divers actually went up to the wrong boat and STILL didn't know they were in the wrong boat. :-) Since nearly ALL of my non-Pacific dives are in well-known dive locations in the Carribean and the Bahamas, frequented by TOURIST divers, the FUNNY incidents are just too numerous to recall or describe. This is a common CLASS of funny sights (fairly often in Cozumel dive boats): Divers are handed tanks to gear up (perhaps they are doing that less and less often), and some diver would put the BCD on the tank upside-down, and when s/he sensed something wasn't quite right, would sheepishly look around with an innocent grin. THAT is funny. -- Bob.