That time a deckhand tried to 'help' with my umbilical
We were on a harbor job in Seattle, doing some basic hull cleaning on a small ferry. I was about 30 feet down, just getting into a rhythm, when I felt this weird tugging on my air line. I surface to find this new deckhand, maybe 18 years old, trying to neatly coil my umbilical on the deck like a garden hose. He looks up, totally proud, and says, 'Just tidying up for you, man. It was looking messy.' I had to explain, as calmly as I could with my reg in my mouth, that my lifeline is not a rope and you never, ever touch a diver's umbilical unless they ask. He went bright red. We still laugh about it on the boat sometimes. Anyone else had a surface crew member 'help' in a way that almost gave you a heart attack?