It’s ofishally time… for our first ever Scuba Boo Scary story contest!
Example stories at the bottom of the post!
Join me, the Little Brrmaid, along with Pacific Northwest Scuba Divers for Scuba Boo, a scary story contest! It’s a shore fire way to get in the mood for fall and there are amazing prizes by Getting Salty and I Love Nudis for our top three stories!
Here’s how it works. Starting Sunday September 3rd, look for this post ⬇️⬇️⬇️
It will be posted on @littlebrrmaid and @pacific_northwest_scuba_divers on Instagram as well as the Pacific Northwest Scuba Divers Facebook Group.
Simply comment on the post to enter! On Instagram or Facebook, whichever you prefer.
Want to help us choose the winners? All you gotta do is “like” your favorites. The top three most liked stories across all platforms will win! You can like as many stories as you want.
Any ocean or scuba themed story is welcome!
Had a close encounter with a creature?
Close call with some faulty gear?
Got left by a dive boat a la Open Water?
Ocean themed stories are also welcome, tales of watery graves, shipwrecks, forbidden deep-water creatures… if its spooky, if its watery, we wanna read it!
Again, to enter find this post beginning Sunday September 3rd on Instagram or Facebook and comment below with your story! Like your favorite stories. Top three stories get prizes by Getting Salty and I Love Nudis, and will also be read on my Podcast What We Sea complete with kriller sound effects.
Check out the intro to my latest What We Sea for an eerie example.
Scuba Boo opens Sunday September 3rd! Until then, get your face wet with some watery tales… we hope these will inspire and spook you!
Abandoned at Sea
This happened during my open water certification. I was 16. Our final day of the course was a 2 hour boat ride to an isolated “island”. On my last dive, we performed our CESA, with me going first. The instructor told me to stay on the surface while he went back down to get the remaining students. I waited and waited, keeping the boat in sight despite the increasingly rough waves. Suddenly the boat started its engine. I looked down trying to see my classmates but no one was there and no one had surfaced that I could see. I was terrified the boat was going to leave me and I began calling for help and swimming as hard as I could towards it. Just when I was convinced I was going to be left, my instructor appeared on the deck looking for me. Turns out the boat was almost ready to leave when my classmates noticed I was missing and stopped them just in time. To this day it still gives me chills thinking about how close I was to being left.
Shark Scares
It’s cold. Quiet. Dark. Pitch black. Even your light only illuminates the hazy water around you… past your hands you can barely see anything… the darkness is thick, pressing down on you…yet you know something is there.
You sense the motion, the briefest flash of a body… a fin… a piercing eye and mouthful of serrated teeth…
The sediment has been disturbed… something silver bolts over your head startling you… and as you turn… you come face to face.. With the prehistoric beast you’ve been searching for…
The Lake it Is Said, Never Gives up Her Dead
Lake Superior is known as the Lake Who Never Gives up Her Dead. Numerous ships have wrecked on her frigid waters, taking many brave crew to its dark depths. One such wreck is the USS Kamloops, which sank during a winter storm in December 1927. The freezing cold has nearly perfectly preserved the ship… along with one of the crew trapped below.
Divers who explored the ship report seeing this crew member, and even nicknamed him Grandpa or “Old Whitey” . Old Whitey is said to watch divers who explore the wreck, and following them silently… watchfully.
Old Whitey isn’t just a story… it’s a real preserved corpse of a crewmember of the USS Kamloops. Due to Lake Superior’s freezing temperature, the body has remained preserved since the ship went down.
There Old Whitey remains… eager to welcome divers into the watery blackness…
