Resort's " New Normal " Rule - No AIR 2 or diving your long hose

[D_Fresh]

I'll agree with you that it was new. And that it will blow over. But it wasn't unprecedented. There have been much greater catastrophes throughout human history. This one will barely even register a footnote in future history books.

The only reason it seems like such a huge deal is because the popular media need something to fill their websites constantly. And that's the reason it'll soon be behind us. People will get tired of hearing about it, so pop media will move on to the next controversy of the week.

Yep, I think you're totally right on that. I'll happily take that correction.

 

[shoredivr]

Is anybody actually reading what Buddy Dive is saying in their “New Normal” page? It’s already been mentioned but Bonaire is part of the EU and has to abide by certain regulations in order to open up to tourist divers.

https://buddydive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/BDR-Safety-Measures-v3.pdf

“During Buddy Dive supervised diving activities (boat dives, guided shore dives and courses) guests
must be in the possession of an alternate air source.This cannot be the alternate air source and inflator
hose combo or “air2’.

• Divers using a long hose are recommended using their necklace as a primary air source so in case of
an emergency the long hose can still be used without any risk.”

If you are shore diving on your own, this doesn’t apply to you.

Recommended is not mandated.

 

[KenGordon]

Bonaire is part of the EU and has to abide by certain regulations in order to open up to tourist divers.

What EU regulations are those?

I ask because I don’t think there are any and this ‘blame the EU’ thing has resulted in the U.K. being run by proper idiots and leaving the EU.

 

[Oldenboldiver]

Why do you think it is being ignored? It is explicitly part of the rules.

The OP:

"During supervised diving activities (boat dives, guided shore dives and courses) guests must be in the possession of an alternate air source. This cannot be the alternate air source and inflator hose combo or “air2’’.
Technical diving is to use neckless as primary source of breathing and leave long hose clipped to D-Ring as an option to give gas this way it will remain clean."

No mention of social distancing on boats there. That's why I think it's being ignored.

 

[tursiops]

The OP:

"During supervised diving activities (boat dives, guided shore dives and courses) guests must be in the possession of an alternate air source. This cannot be the alternate air source and inflator hose combo or “air2’’.
Technical diving is to use neckless as primary source of breathing and leave long hose clipped to D-Ring as an option to give gas this way it will remain clean."

No mention of social distancing on boats there. That's why I think it's being ignored.

There is an entire section in the Buddy Dive document about boat diving.

 

[uncfnp]

There is an entire section in the Buddy Dive document about boat diving.
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I commented on DF’s facebook page when they mentioned the use of gloves and I recommended against this unless they are using some chemical to clean gear and need to protect their hands. They responded that the gloves were the heavy duty gloves they will reuse and sanitize.

My opinion (obviously) again is no gloves otherwise. I can’t even imagine how they might me useful on the dive boat.

 

[Diving Dubai]

You will find references to sources here:

Inch - Wikipedia

Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

The mile one and all it's variants is the best Wikipedia - Mile

But teh original question was what is a metre (meter in american)

and the answer of course is

The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. With a yard being 0.9144 of that

 

[tursiops]

I commented on DF’s facebook page when they mentioned the use of gloves and I recommended against this unless they are using some chemical to clean gear and need to protect their hands. They responded that the gloves were the heavy duty gloves they will reuse and sanitize.

My opinion (obviously) again is no gloves otherwise. I can’t even imagine how they might me useful on the dive boat.

I think the gloves are to protect the staff, not the customers.

 

[beaverdivers]

There is an entire section in the Buddy Dive document about boat diving.
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Nu komt de aap uit de mouw – Now the monkey comes out of the sleeve!

I never mentioned the dive resort or the destination. Isn't it funny that someone could track the resort down from all of the dive resorts in the world?

How did they find the one resort in the world from just my post? " During supervised diving activities (boat dives, guided shore dives and courses) guests must be in the possession of an alternate air source. This cannot be the alternate air source and inflator hose combo or “air2’’.
Technical diving is to use neckless as primary source of breathing and leave long hose clipped to D-Ring as an option to give gas this way it will remain clean."

 

[tursiops]

Nu komt de aap uit de mouw – Now the monkey comes out of the sleeve!

I never mentioned the dive resort or the destination. Isn't it funny that someone could track the resort down from all of the dive resorts in the world?

How did they find the one resort in the world from just my post? " During supervised diving activities (boat dives, guided shore dives and courses) guests must be in the possession of an alternate air source. This cannot be the alternate air source and inflator hose combo or “air2’’.
Technical diving is to use neckless as primary source of breathing and leave long hose clipped to D-Ring as an option to give gas this way it will remain clean."

If this is a real question, then here is the real answer: Put your quote into Google and and the Buddy Dive source pops right up.
Why are you so curious about this?