When were you last really scared?We'd been watching the Shining. We were staying in an old church building. In hindsight, taking the shortcut home after midnight, in the mist, through the old graveyard was a bad idea.
I'm not sure what started it, but suddenly all the hairs on my neck had gone up and I was crapping myself. It was almost as bad as when, after a few cups of coffee too many and buzzing on caffeine, I got freaked out by my own reflection in the toilets.
When were you last really scared?
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chthonic, Thu 22 Feb 2007, 15:43)
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Once going up, once coming down. Both too fast for comfort.That would be a couple of weeks back in Portland, diving on the M2 (WWI submarine at about 35m depth). Not sure exactly what happened, but the dump valve on my drysuit wasn't dumping air properly on the ascent and I was surfacing fast. Too fast. Approaching the safety stop I wedged two fingers in the neck-seal (air goes out, but water comes in) and slowed down. Two other divers caught me and me and me buddy stoped at 6m for a while to let my heart rate slow down to normal speed and to do some decompression. Not nice. Felt like a completel numpty.
Weekend after that, lead climbing in London on a wall. Lots of slack out to clip into the next quickdraw, sliped and fell. Belayer lost her footing and suddenly I'm standing 5m lower down on the floor. More adrenaline than fear at the time, but after a quick break and looking at the wall I realised that actually, that was pretty high up. Eeep!
(, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 10:50, Reply)
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