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Helen · December 19th, 2005, 09:48 PM

Quote: (Originally Posted by Gledders)

My five year old daughter has a slightly warped view of diving... told that her Daddy was going to do a try dive in the Maldives she disolved into fits of giggles and said "Don't be silly, Daddies don't dive"

She learned to swim underwater on that holiday and asked me to teach her some "diver language"

I showed her OK, question, all the numbers (one handed of course

) bubbles etc.

She then asked me what the sign was for water.

"Erm... we don't have one for that." I said.

I've been thinking about it since and actually it would be a good sign to have. I'm getting water in my drysuit

or my reg is breathing wet would be quite helpful information to impart underwater.

On Friday, every time I inflated my suit I got a blast of cold water as well. Not a suit flood and so not a reason to thumb the dive but my buddy only found out that I was cold and miserable on the surface some 50 minutes later.

Any thoughts?

I did develop one for "im having a wee" which was all the fingers pointing down and wigging them back and forwards.

The proper sign language sign for water is a flat hand palm down making a wave motion (i used to teach deaf kids). Other than that, i would reccomend the sign for finger spelling for "W" - the fingers of each hand interlocked.

Sorry, im being all sensible....

December 19th, 2005, 09:48 PM	#2 (permalink)
Helen(Offline) "Like a diver... only shorter" Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Scapa Flow, Orkney Posts: 101	Quote: (Originally Posted by Gledders) My five year old daughter has a slightly warped view of diving... told that her Daddy was going to do a try dive in the Maldives she disolved into fits of giggles and said "Don't be silly, Daddies don't dive" She learned to swim underwater on that holiday and asked me to teach her some "diver language" I showed her OK, question, all the numbers (one handed of course ) bubbles etc. She then asked me what the sign was for water. "Erm... we don't have one for that." I said. I've been thinking about it since and actually it would be a good sign to have. I'm getting water in my drysuit or my reg is breathing wet would be quite helpful information to impart underwater. On Friday, every time I inflated my suit I got a blast of cold water as well. Not a suit flood and so not a reason to thumb the dive but my buddy only found out that I was cold and miserable on the surface some 50 minutes later. Any thoughts? I did develop one for "im having a wee" which was all the fingers pointing down and wigging them back and forwards. The proper sign language sign for water is a flat hand palm down making a wave motion (i used to teach deaf kids). Other than that, i would reccomend the sign for finger spelling for "W" - the fingers of each hand interlocked. Sorry, im being all sensible.... __________________ You can dive any way you want to. Just don't expect me to be down there with you....