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Scuba Forum / General / March 2004What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard?
What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? My wife and I are planning on a liveaboard trip to the Anadaman Sea and were just wondering what we should bring for the "after-hours". > What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? > My wife and I are planning on a liveaboard trip to the Anadaman Sea > and were just wondering what we should bring for the "after-hours" I did the Nekton - minimum of five dives a day - including night dives every night. There really wasn't off hours. After dinner one of the crew taught a class on different things, fish id, reef awareness, turtles, etc etc. After that was time for a night dive. After the night dive, clean and hang your gear and may be have a beverage or two, hit the hay. Some mornings we did dawn dives. Check with the live aboard - the Nekton does not provide alcoholic beverages, and once you do have an alcoholic beverage they ask that you don't dive anymore that day. > What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? > My wife and I are planning on a liveaboard trip to the Anadaman Sea > and were just wondering what we should bring for the "after-hours". Depends upon where you fly out of and into... > What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? > My wife and I are planning on a liveaboard trip to the Anadaman Sea > and were just wondering what we should bring for the "after-hours". Play "push-the-button-and-time-the-steward", of course.  Signature"C'mon, you sons of bitches, you want to live forever?" -Sergeant Major Dan Daly dj_google@daum.net (DJ Kim) pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? :My wife and I are planning on a liveaboard trip to the Anadaman Sea :and were just wondering what we should bring for the "after-hours". Delightful repartee with the other passengers. Reading books, most liveaboards have a book exchange. Watching movies, most liveaboards have a video/dvd collection. Making whoopee. Dan Bracuk If at first you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure. The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/ > What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? > My wife and I are planning on a liveaboard trip to the Anadaman Sea > and were just wondering what we should bring for the "after-hours". Sit around and tell lies. Watch each other's video footage. Drink wine and get stupid drunk. Make new friends. All of the above. > What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? > My wife and I are planning on a liveaboard trip to the Anadaman Sea > and were just wondering what we should bring for the "after-hours". Your love for one another seems like it should be enough. If not, bring a good book or two. Lee > > What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? > > My wife and I are planning on a liveaboard trip to the Anadaman Sea > > and were just wondering what we should bring for the "after-hours". > > Your love for one another seems like it should be enough. If not, bring a > good book or two. Gag me with a forklift. > > > What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? > > > My wife and I are planning on a liveaboard trip to the Anadaman Sea [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Gag me with a forklift. Open wide, here it comes. I can't speak for others, but any time I spend with Jayna is quality time. Those that can't have a great time just being with their significant other, in an environment as naturally romantic as a boat at sea, might do well to reevaluate their choice of significant other. Lee > > Gag me with a forklift. > Open wide, here it comes. > I can't speak for others, but any time I spend with Jayna is quality time. Understood, and I am happy for the boat a youse. > Those that can't have a great time just being with their significant other, > in an environment as naturally romantic as a boat at sea, might do well to > reevaluate their choice of significant other. I'll stick with mine. But, we spend more time together than apart, so a liveaboard would only be another dive trip. > But, we spend more time together than apart, so a liveaboard would only be > another dive trip. Sorry to hear that, or more precisely, sorry to hear that any liveaboard trip would ever be characterized as "just another dive trip." That's what you get for getting into the business. Lee "Lee Bell" <leebell@ix.remove.netcom.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :Sorry to hear that, or more precisely, sorry to hear that any liveaboard :trip would ever be characterized as "just another dive trip." That's what :you get for getting into the business. That's what I get for going on so many liveaboard trips. Dan Bracuk If at first you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure. The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/ > I can't speak for others, but any time I spend with Jayna is quality time. > Those that can't have a great time just being with their significant other, > in an environment as naturally romantic as a boat at sea, might do well to > reevaluate their choice of significant other. Yeah, those nights where you're both bending over the rail heaving out the last of the BBQ and beer while swearing that you'll never do greasy BBQ and beer in rough seas again.... Priceless... > > I can't speak for others, but any time I spend with Jayna is quality time. > > Those that can't have a great time just being with their significant [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > last of the BBQ and beer while swearing that you'll never do greasy BBQ and > beer in rough seas again.... Priceless... The source of many future tall tales and shared laughs . . . no matter how bad things seem at the time. Lee > What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? > My wife and I are planning on a liveaboard trip to the Anadaman Sea > and were just wondering what we should bring for the "after-hours". o Sleep o Eat o Drink (in moderation) o Talk with other passengers and crew o Overhear the "boat liar" exaggerate what he saw on the last dive o Show off digital photos, look over someone else's digital photos, watch someone else's video footage. o Sit/lie on deck enjoying the sun, wind, motion of boat, etc. o Read a book o Screw around with gear (the photo stuff is moderately time consuming, night dives are good to take some time on, the rest of the stuff doesn't need much attention unless something breaks) o Have sex In no particular order. Regards, Ross -- Ross Bagley http://rossbagley.com/rba "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -- Helen Keller After-hours???? All I remember is waking-up, eating, diving. Not necessarily in that order. Did I miss something important? HES van Schoonhoven Life is a learning experience ross@rossbagley.com (Ross Bagley) pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: : o Overhear the "boat liar" exaggerate what he saw on the last dive Better yet, be the boat liar. Dan Bracuk If at first you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure. The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/ >What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? go diving. safe diving, bullshark If it is clear and dark (ie. little or no moonlight), borrow the skipper's binoculars, lie back on a deck chair and do some star gazing. If the boat is rocking, skip the bino's. Bart F. > What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? > My wife and I are planning on a liveaboard trip to the Anadaman Sea > and were just wondering what we should bring for the "after-hours". Drink beer and have sex or have sex then drink beer and if its your lucky night drink beer while having sex. MarkW nospam to scuba to reply " If the boat isn't moving to a new location, I myself like to snorkel between dives. Keeps the skin from drying out :-) Don't be shy about asking the crew to motor you over to a shallow spot if you're not anchored close to snorkeling. Also, I read the fish & critter ID books and look at everyone's photos. I was on the Belize Aggressor once with a group of 4 guys from Ohio who played Euchre (a card game) every evening after diving. They apparently plan a yearly trip to dive, play Euchre, and drink beer. > What do you usually do during after-hours on a liveaboard? > My wife and I are planning on a liveaboard trip to the Anadaman Sea > and were just wondering what we should bring for the "after-hours". > If the boat isn't moving to a new location, I myself like to snorkel > between dives. Keeps the skin from drying out :-) Don't be shy about > asking the crew to motor you over to a shallow spot if you're not anchored > close to snorkeling. Yo Becky, One word of caution, if you don't mind. If you're doing multiple dives, day after day -as in 'your regular liveaboard'-the snorkeling bit is O.K., but better skip the free dives. If you're any good at it and do it frequently, it just might compromise your decompression and then there is no dive-table or dive-computer that will safe you from harm. If basic decompression is explained by referring to a bubbly soft drink, for a N2-loaded diver, yo-yo free diving is much like shaking the bottle. Have fun! Stay healthy. HES van Schoonhoven Good point. I don't free dive much myself, but people who do should be aware of the possible risk. I forgot another way to kill surface time if you're on an Aggressor boat--laze in the hot tub. Many years back, I had heard that hot tubbing increased the possibility of DCI , but DAN had this to say on the subject, by e-mail in 2002: <<As far as we know, hot tubbing at 100 F after dives does not cause DCI. To our knowledge, no one at DAN has ever said that it does. There are physiological reasons to believe that sitting in a hot tub (vs. taking a hot shower, or sitting in a hot dry environment) might actually decrease the probability of DCI. Water immersion increases cardiac output, and has been shown to increase insert gas washout (see Balldin UI, Lundgren CE. Effects of immersion with the head above water on tissue nitrogen elimination in man. Aerospace Medicine. 43:1101-8, 1972; Balldin UI et al. Changes in the elimination of (superscript: 133) xenon from the anterior tibial muscle in man induced by immersion in water and by shifts in body position. Aerospace Medicine. 42:489-93, 1971). Since we know very little or nothing about whether hot tubbing actually increases or decreases bends risk, I would be inclined to a statement such as: "We don't think hot tubbing is a problem but we don't know for sure".>> Becky > > If the boat isn't moving to a new location, I myself like to snorkel > > between dives. Keeps the skin from drying out :-) Don't be shy about [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > HES van Schoonhoven |
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