Pixel - 2/18/2009 11:38 AM
Scariest for me was on a qualifying dive and I had to do full mask removal.
There was one hell of a surge and we were 15m deep. The instructor was holding onto my waist and as I took off my mask, I got swept up against a rock, cylinder first. I hit my cylinder really hard and of course I didn’t have my mask on. It took me a second to realize, "don’t panic, you can still breathe even though you can’t see". I nearly freaked. As soon as I had my mask back on, I of course reached back to double check that my first stage hadn’t been damaged.
Used a lot of air up after that trying to get myself back to normal.
Since that day I only use a din connection for my regulator.