What are we suppose to do when we get a cramp underwater?
It happened to someone i know some time back and apparently it was one of the most scariestmoments of his life..whatever mouvement he tried to do, the pain in his leg was too strong and he sank, luckely he wasn't diving alone that day
I had that happen this past weekend. Get bouyant grab your fin and pull. I was diving in low vis (5ft or less) and quickly lost the group I was with. I worked the cramp and monitored depth. When it got controllable I went looking for my buddies. After a couple minutes I surfaced, fully inflated my BC and began swimming slowly back to shore. I had to stop repeatedly to work the cramp. My buddies had surfaced significantly further away. I signaled I was OK. They stayed in the water and monitored my progress. It took awhile but I made it back.
The moral? Make sure you are hydrated even on a cool day.
__________________ Is that the bottom of the quarry or is the vis just really bad today?
I often wear a pull -blow up jacket over my swimming suit, that way if i have a real bad problem, i pull on the cord and the jacket blows up slowly taking me back to the surface. This is a gadget i found during a trip and i thought that it was a realy good idea...just incase
How do you control your ascent? I'd be paranoid. How do you make a safety stop? I'll stick with a BC. I do carry a lift bag as a back up if I have an air bladder problem. (at my age you have to be specific when making bladder references). How do insure it won't deploy inadvertenly?
__________________ Is that the bottom of the quarry or is the vis just really bad today?
i've never had an underwater cramp yet , well not during a dive in the sea, it has happened when i was younger and often would go to the simming pool and that was bad enough for me to remenber it, no doubt that it will happen to me one day but i'm not in a hurry
I remenber having a cramp in my left thigh a few years ago, i wasn't diving, just swimming so lucky enough didn't have the weight of an equipement on my back or anything but i remenber how scary it was as i couldn't seem to take the control over it!
I got a terrible cramp once, i'll never forget. It shot way up my leg and was horrid, i realy thought i was going to die, the pain was so intense that i couldn't think of anything else and even pulling on it didn't do a thing. I nearly did drown!
the only place i get cramps is in bed!
I assure you it's true if i sort of have the bad idea to stretch in my bed during the night i wake up in pain at once!
A cramp!!! 
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