Safety protocol in Scuba Diving during pandemic

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Jay_Fish

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Location
Olivehurst-California
# of dives
200 - 499
As much as I wanted to scuba dive again after more than a year waiting. There are a lot of factors that make the scuba diving can be a new cluster of covid infection due to the nature of Scuba itself where we have to breath in Oxygen from a tank that had to be handled by someone else, either by the Scuba Shop, Dive Guides and people in between. Also there are a lot of communal activities where divers share room, camera room, changing room, rental units (especially regulators), boat, drinking water, etc etc.

Does anyone worry about all of these and what do you do to prepare and what kind of safety protocol that we have to follow for:

(1) Diving Services and Diving Gear Hygiene,
(2) Diving Trip Safety,
(3) Diver Training Safety

I am sure the procedures will be different from one dive resort to another. We want to scuba dive and have fun but we dont want to get sick due to lacking of safety protocol at the resort.
 
the nature of Scuba itself where we have to breath in Oxygen from a tank

Are you a reporter for a newspaper / magazine?

I'm not sure if many dive centres are operating in Indonesia, I'm sure SB members there will clarify their local situation.

Personally I'd be using my own regulators anyway but if I had to rent one then I'd be cleaning it throughly prior to using it, and making sure that nobody else would be using it during the period I am staying there.

Maintain normal procedures for Covid-19 such as washing hands frequently and liberal use of sanitiser when appropriate as well as wearing a mask and vaccination before any travel.
 
I assume you're vaccinated?
 
As much as I wanted to scuba dive again after more than a year waiting. There are a lot of factors that make the scuba diving can be a new cluster of covid infection due to the nature of Scuba itself where we have to breath in Oxygen from a tank that had to be handled by someone else, either by the Scuba Shop, Dive Guides and people in between. Also there are a lot of communal activities where divers share room, camera room, changing room, rental units (especially regulators), boat, drinking water, etc etc.
What is the difference from eating in a restaurant?
The only time I use Oxygen is at 6m(deco stop) otherwise it is COMPRESSED AIR most of the time.
 
The air inlet for those big compressors is usually not in the same location where the guys filling up the tanks are so theoretically even if they would cough their lungs out near your tank that does not mean COVID will get in there... especially considering air compressors have very good filters as required by law.

Other than that, regular protocols should be followed (mask, distancing when possible, washing hands) and you should be good.

Rinse & disinfect gear if its not yours, get a vaccine and hop in the water.
 
I am vaccinated, currently diving at a location where Covid is hot, people from all over the world are unmasked for the most part on land and dive boats, little to no social distancing, and I have no idea who is vaccinated or not. In addition, the dive op is pretty limited as to what they can do to make me feel safe on the dive boat. With all of those concerns, the handling of air fills (other than no CO in the tank, and availability of a Nitrox analyzer) is not even a digit on my worry meter.
 
Are you a reporter for a newspaper / magazine?

I'm not sure if many dive centres are operating in Indonesia, I'm sure SB members there will clarify their local situation.

Personally I'd be using my own regulators anyway but if I had to rent one then I'd be cleaning it throughly prior to using it, and making sure that nobody else would be using it during the period I am staying there.

Maintain normal procedures for Covid-19 such as washing hands frequently and liberal use of sanitiser when appropriate as well as wearing a mask and vaccination before any travel.
No not remotely close to being a reporter haha. I was just curious what other divers would do and have done if they have visited dive resort lately.
 
No not remotely close to being a reporter haha. I was just curious what other divers would do and have done if they have visited dive resort lately.
It is absolutely incredible that anyone claimed to have 200-499 dives could not tell the difference between oxygen and compressed air.
BTW, when was the last time you dived with an O2 tank?

Why this "general" question was specifically raised in Indonesia sub-forum?
The MOD should move it to "covid and pandemic discussion" which is more appropriated than here.
 
Why this "general" question was specifically raised in Indonesia sub-forum?

Because some people are just bad at geography :rofl3:
 

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