Boat Etiquette...

[ClassAction]

During a recent dive trip to Aruba (and my first series of boat dives), I noticed one diver climb into the gear-rinsing barrel with his suit on. Yuck! As if I'd like his pee etc. on my first stage! Is this normal/accepted? The barrel is for gear, not your dirty body! (Right?)

 

[RICHinNC]

That was very rude and the boat captain should have said something. Sometimes being cute.....just isnt.

 

[Warren_L]

That was very rude and the boat captain should have said something. Sometimes being cute.....just isnt.

You mean the dunk tank? That shouldn't even be for gear - it should be for camera equipment! The last thing anyone needs is to have a leaky dive light dunked in the tank and leak some acid to destroy the housings on some significantly more expensive cameras.

 

[ClassAction]

Well, there was a camera dunk tank and a gear dunk tank. The idiot assumed that a quick dip in the gear tank could save him a shower that night. Incidentally, there was a fresh water shower on the boat. But no, he insisted that he soil everyone's first stages...

 

[matt_unique]

During a recent dive trip to Aruba (and my first series of boat dives), I noticed one diver climb into the gear-rinsing barrel with his suit on. Yuck! As if I'd like his pee etc. on my first stage! Is this normal/accepted? The barrel is for gear, not your dirty body! (Right?)

Man I would not rinse my gear let alone take a dunk in any rinse barrel's I have seen in the tropics. Maybe they just changed the water on your charter boat. I think this guy was beyond rude, it was more strange. I thought you were kidding when I first read the post.

--Matt

 

[Gary D.]

Put a sign over the tank.

"We don't swim in your toilet so please don't pee in our pool" :54:

Gary D.

 

[christopher1260]

Or...
"Welcome to our ool. Notice there's no P in it."

 

[scubasean]

During a recent dive trip to Aruba (and my first series of boat dives), I noticed one diver climb into the gear-rinsing barrel with his suit on. Yuck! As if I'd like his pee etc. on my first stage! Is this normal/accepted? The barrel is for gear, not your dirty body! (Right?)

Want to bet that your first stage has seem harsher things in the ocean?

I'm not an advocate for dunking your gear in someone's "stuff", but dead fish, pee, and much worse is in the ocean...But, nature has a way of making this work out....

As for the inconsiderate slob using the dunk tank, why didn't the other divers give him a blanket party?

 

[Jester]

Man, it's been a long time since I heard the term "Blanket Party." What are you, some kind of swab? LOL!

 

[WreckWriter]

Its common practice. Those of you who are complaining simply don't take boat rides with people who take a lot of boat rides. Dry suit divers do this regularly, its the best way to rinse a drysuit.

WW