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Smash Monkey asks: "what's the creepiest thing you've seen, heard or felt? What has sent shivers running up your spine and skidmarks running up your undercrackers? Tell us, we'll make it all better"

(, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 13:57)
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I once had to go into the water just before dark,
in the middle of the Atlantic. We'd picked up a wayward piece of fishing net (fuck you polypropylene) and it had fouled the prop. Not unusual, but as it was nearly night and the forecast was for absolutely no wind had to get in quick otherwise we'd just be sitting there all night, rolling about and not really moving. No time to rig the scuba gear, I'll just sling on some boardies, take a mask and hold my breath.

Fine, I go over the side, but as soon as I'm in it becomes very apparent that I'm gonna struggle. Can't see shit.

Swim under the boat anyway, finding the propshaft more or less by feel, and start hacking away at the bastard thing caught round it. It's very tight, so I have to have a couple of goes at it, so by the last time it's pretty much pitch black as soon as I put my head under.

This is in about... 3, maybe 4,000m of water? Can't remember exactly where we were now.

That was a fun evening.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 16:43, 1 reply)
that sounds like a situation that could easily turn to panic

(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 17:56, closed)
yeah, really wasn't ideal
Should have waited for morning really, but we had a very tight schedule and couldn't afford to just sit not going anywhere all night.

Meh, it was fine. I was giving myself plenty of time to get back to surface, and I had a fuck-off great knife anyway to get rid of the net, so I wasn't worried about snags. And there was just about enough light to see which way the bubbles went. Plus I'd done a fair bit of this sort of thing, so fairly laid back about it.
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