Carrying a pointer stick

[crofrog]

Unconscionable? UNCONSCIONABLE?! Bloody hell. Genocide is unconscionable. Rape is unconscionable. Having physical contact with the environment you're in is unconscionable? Serious? Makes me want to go get a stick. And I don't even know what they're for.

I’m sorry you’re so easily triggered.

 

[pauldw]

I’m sorry you’re so easily triggered.

You're talking to yourself.

 

[Joneill]

Unconscionable? UNCONSCIONABLE?! Bloody hell. Genocide is unconscionable. Rape is unconscionable. Having physical contact with the environment you're in is unconscionable? Serious? Makes me want to go get a stick. And I don't even know what they're for.

That is just the typical SB “holier than thou” attitude. I carry a pointer and use it sparingly and carefully. There is no problem with using one if you are responsible in where and how you use it. Ignore the naysayers!

 

[uncfnp]

As with any tool there is a right way and a wrong way to use one and situations where it is appropriate and others less so. I bought a pointer during a Liveaboard in Komodo after watching the dive guide using one. Came in very handy with the current and at times I would use it almost as a mini reef hook (another controversial tool). In Lembeh it was even more useful, there is a reason some call them muck sticks.

 

[scubadada]

I'm generally OK with divers using a pointer stick correctly and judiciously as per my friend, @uncfnp

I'm currently in Bonaire and went on a boat dive yesterday to one on the really great sites to the north, not accessible from the shore. A diver was sticking his pointer in the reef for nearly every photo he was taking to make up for poor buoyancy control. To make things even worse, he would bang it on his tank for everything he saw, regardless of importance. I had a polite talk with him during the surface interval. He was very defensive and essentially told to mind my own business and to get lost. I pondered asking the guide to speak to him but dropped it at that. Interestingly, he used his pointer only a couple of times on the second dive and quit banging his tank all the time.

 

[Centrals]

No gloves, pointer or reef hook.

 

[crofrog]

I'm generally OK with divers using a pointer stick correctly and judiciously as per my friend, @uncfnp

I'm currently in Bonaire and went on a boat dive yesterday to one on the really great sites to the north, not accessible from the shore. A diver was sticking his pointer in the reef for nearly every photo he was taking to make up for poor buoyancy control. To make things even worse, he would bang it on his tank for everything he saw, regardless of importance. I had a polite talk with him during the surface interval. He was very defensive and essentially told to mind my own business and to get lost. I pondered asking the guide to speak to him but dropped it at that. Interestingly, he used his pointer only a couple of times on the second dive and quit banging his tank all the time.

The difference in the health of the reefs in Bonaire that are heavily dove and rarely dove is extremely telling. DPVing around on west side of Bonaire as you get in between sites were people can’t easily get to it’s often much healthier, and same for the east coast.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

I'm generally OK with divers using a pointer stick correctly and judiciously as per my friend, @uncfnp

I'm currently in Bonaire and went on a boat dive yesterday to one on the really great sites to the north, not accessible from the shore. A diver was sticking his pointer in the reef for nearly every photo he was taking to make up for poor buoyancy control. To make things even worse, he would bang it on his tank for everything he saw, regardless of importance. I had a polite talk with him during the surface interval. He was very defensive and essentially told to mind my own business and to get lost. I pondered asking the guide to speak to him but dropped it at that. Interestingly, he used his pointer only a couple of times on the second dive and quit banging his tank all the time.

interesting. When I was in Bonaire last year, jt was grilled into us no muck sticks, pointers of any kind, and absolutely NO touch anything!. I assumed that rule to be everywhere, not just with the outfit we dived with. I came to the conclusion thats why not many nudi or froggie photos ... No muck sticks, no touching things

 

[mcohen1021]

No gloves, pointer or reef hook.

well then how are you supposed to steady yourself for the next pic / video?

 

[uncfnp]

The difference in the health of the reefs in Bonaire that are heavily dove and rarely dove is extremely telling. DPVing around on west side of Bonaire as you get in between sites were people can’t easily get to it’s often much healthier, and same for the east coast.

Who knew that pollution, global warming and SCTLD could all be cured by banning pointers. Brilliant!