A 30-year diver in Galveston told me to check my umbilical before every descent, and I didn't listen

Wren Thomas · 2026-09-17T20:50:02.849793+00:00

I was doing a routine pier inspection in Galveston about 4 months ago and a guy named Ray who had been diving for 30 years told me to always walk my umbilical before splash, and I brushed it off because I was in a hurry. Two dives later my airline was kinked near the manifold and I felt the drag at 40 feet over a muddy bottom, and it scared me more than anything else that month. Does anyone else have a pre-dive check they picked up from an old-timer that you still do every single time?

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