Do not open if you have a delicate constitution.

[tkwinston4]

It's common-ish with SCUBA as the air you swallow at depth expands as you rise, sometimes too fast to burp it away. Other times you are unlucky. In my old club one woman vomited on or just after every dive. If that were me, I'd find another hobby.

You get two choices - you can vomit through your regulator (the ting in your mouth), or take the regulator out. Neither is a fun experience. People seem to have a post vomit reflex to breath in, which means you either get a mouthful of your own vomit back, or you inhale seawater.

On the plus side, the fish love it, and loads will appear from nowhere to feed on the stuff your body no longer wants.

OMG is that really true? I start my course next year and I am dreading it already due to claustrophobia but with that knowledge I am really dreading it now!!!

 

[tkwinston4]

Dogs often do it,but then they also enjoy eating poo,especially if they think they can lick your face afterwards.

Cant stop laughing now!!!

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Worry not tkwinston4

Learning to dive is made really easy and gentle. Trust me, I'm an instructor.

You only go as far and as fast as you want to. And your instructors will recognise and understand your fear - its very common. But once you start, it becomes both fascinating and second nature.

I only get sick underwater because since being a lad, I've been seasick very easily. And I know how to deal with it. (In case anyone wonders, I'd never take students down if feeling anything other than well. I usually only teach in lakes, quarries or from the seashore.)

 

[tkwinston4]

Worry not tkwinston4

Learning to dive is made really easy and gentle. Trust me, I'm an instructor.

You only go as far and as fast as you want to. And your instructors will recognise and understand your fear - its very common. But once you start, it becomes both fascinating and second nature.

I only get sick underwater because since being a lad, I've been seasick very easily. And I know how to deal with it. (In case anyone wonders, I'd never take students down if feeling anything other than well. I usually only teach in lakes, quarries or from the seashore.)

Wish you could come down south and teach me then. I have been paying for the past year for me and the OH to do it. I finished paying last month and its a surprise for the OH's birthday. I am determined to do it because he really enjoyed our try dive. It made me cry like a big fat girl but I really really enjoyed snorkelling in the Maldives and would have loved to have gone deeper to see even more.
I never knew that being sick was something else that could happen - they don't tell you that on the try dive the cheeky monkeys!!!

 

[For want of a better word]

Twinstone 4

Been diving since 1965.... pukeing under water is rare.... but seasickness, particularly on a small dive boat is a real problem.
DO NOT BE AFRAID TO ABORT A DIVE............ I too am a qualified instructor (BSAC) and would never push anyone into diving if they were unsure.
Like keeping bees, take it all in little steps, only a fool would try to eat a whole packet of biscuits in one mouthful, one at a time is OK !
I had ( and still have) made may friends through scubadiving... you are lucky up your way.. Billingshurst( who meet at Crawley pool with Ifield SAC) Crawley (Horley pool) Dorking, Guidford and my old club Cranleigh BSAC branches are all close to you.
Enjoy!

 

[Poggle]

One of the best chuck ups I ever saw was on a Chinook.......We were on Easter camp witht he cadets and getting a free ride in the Chinook was part of the "experience". We also had 4 cadets who reckoned nothing could make them sick, various pilots of Chipmonk air craft had tried and failed. Anyway, we were at around 2,000 foot when the radio guy starts to heave and seacrh for a sick bag. he finds one and proceeds to throw up a good un into it. The four "heroes" just sat there grinning and making "tosser" motions with their hands. The pilot then hands over control to the co pilot, gives the radio man a bollocking, takes the puke bag from him,opens it up, looks in and says "Hey!! Look, carrots and suasages guys!!" He takes a spoon out of his flight suit and proceeds to take some "puke" from the bag and eat it with great relish...........We had four "heroes" puking up a good un LOL!!! It was better being there and seeing it than telling it

 

[For want of a better word]

One of the best chuck ups I ever saw was on a Chinook.......We were on Easter camp witht he cadets and getting a free ride in the Chinook was part of the "experience". We also had 4 cadets who reckoned nothing could make them sick, various pilots of Chipmonk air craft had tried and failed. Anyway, we were at around 2,000 foot when the radio guy starts to heave and seacrh for a sick bag. he finds one and proceeds to throw up a good un into it. The four "heroes" just sat there grinning and making "tosser" motions with their hands. The pilot then hands over control to the co pilot, gives the radio man a bollocking, takes the puke bag from him,opens it up, looks in and says "Hey!! Look, carrots and suasages guys!!" He takes a spoon out of his flight suit and proceeds to take some "puke" from the bag and eat it with great relish...........We had four "heroes" puking up a good un LOL!!! It was better being there and seeing it than telling it

Beef or pork sausages?​

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[Torq]

In my drunken youth i once "borrowed" a pink ladies bicycle to get home after a night and morning on the beer. Half way home i barfed over the handlebars without stopping. Luckily there was no shopping basket on the front, i laughed the rest of the way home and returned the bike that evening.

 

[Vergilius]

Alright, here goes...

Last night I had the unpleasant experience of throwing up in my dad's car - he wasn't happy to say the least - payed my penance though this morning when I had to clean it all up...

 

[Nose Ma]

Worry not tkwinston4

Learning to dive is made really easy and gentle. Trust me, I'm an instructor.

You only go as far and as fast as you want to. And your instructors will recognise and understand your fear - its very common. But once you start, it becomes both fascinating and second nature.

Do your course, and be honest with the instructor about feeling comfortable or scared. There is no shame in being scared - and for most people it's quite scary on the first "outdoor" dive. False bravado is dangerous. I learnt PADI ("Put Another Dollar In") in Bermuda (I lived there for a while). When you first step off the boat and look down, and see there is no bottom, it's quite eerie. We were only in 20 foot of water, but you could just see blue haze below. I remember the first time I put my mask in the water, a sergeant major fish tapped on it and then swam off. I've liked them ever since.
Then, you go through the exercises under supervision and get to the end. Time will fly. Next time, it's easier, and so on. Just listen to the briefing, be familiar with your buddy, and do what you've been instructed. After a while it becomes natural to get buoyancy, and you will burn far less air. As a brief aside, due to the physics of the exercise it is much easier to maintain neutral buoyancy at depth. If you can crack it in a pool at six foot, you will be fine in a quarry/ocean/whatever.

As others note - vomiting is rare. Cold and water trapped in the ears are common.

There is, literally, another world there. Reefs vary by time of day or night (night diving is an incredible experience).

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

many moons ago when I was but a trainee on Her Majesty's cutters another trainee never could get his sealegs one day he was sat at the back of the wheelhouse near the open door to the open bridge when he gave up the urge to fight and threw up into the nearest receptacle (we were always taught to be tidy) the handiest thing available was the commanders seasafe jacket pocket - he told nobody. when it came to docking commander donned his jacket, conned us alongside in a difficult wind then smugly pleased with himself stuffed his hand in his pocket in a classic Noel coward cruel sea pose. Large hands displaced substantial quantity of cold lumpy goo which promptly squirted up his sleve to armpit and thus chest.
Needless to say trainee no longer on the fleet!

Throwing up in your beekeeping veil would probably be akin to what we would call the five finger spread - when you try to hold it in with your hand but never make the toilet in time - the pressure just pushes past the fingers - it's amazing how far it can go (in my case all over the number one's cabin including his best shoes and his open underpants drawer.) My seamanship must have been impressive as he forgave me eventually and we're now firm friends.

 

[For want of a better word]

TKW..
and the best bit of advice EVER..... don't forget to breathe !

 

[oliver90owner]

Still waiting to hear from Cazza again - whether recovering, or if congratulations are in order.

RAB

 

[Cazza]

Hi Rab

Congratulations are certainly not in order and I am raring to go today.
I do not intend to repeat the experience!

Cazza

 

[Poggle]

Beef or pork sausages?​

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Actually, they were pork and they came from the officers Mess so there

 

[oliver90owner]

I am raring to go today.

In that case, glad you are (fully?) recovered!

Regards, RAB