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Keeping it on decreases the odds even further, or that's at least the operators' thinking.
Are you helpless without fins?
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sschlesi
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er ... favourite colour.
Those Brits and their sneaky u's. As a Canadian I'm in favor of tossing the u's and the Queen.
Forgive me if I rehash, but after reading about 1/2 of the thread (arbitrary pages after the first couple and last couple) I want to say that one thing I noticed from scanning this thread and from my experience operating a boat in the Caribbean, MANY divers choose to disregard the instructions of the crew during the dive briefings.
Our policy was to have people hang on the surface tag line and take fins off before arriving at the ladder, pass them up once they grasp the ladder and then come up the ladder in full kit using BOTH hands.
We had this procedure for a reason. We briefed ALL divers on this for a reason. We explained our reasons. Still guests would invariably insist on doing it their own way. If you have issues with the boat's policy, all I can say is discuss it with the crew before hand!!! I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that "your" unique situation or requirement probably is not all that unique. We had seen a number of either look really stupid or put themselves into harm's way by not following our directions. In our case, the warm water meant that **most** divers were wearing full foot fins. Those with open heels were more than welcome to wrist their fins, but we did REQUIRE that guests have BOTH hands available for climbing the ladder since the typical day for us involved 2-3 foot chop crossing on top of a 5-6 swell...
Again we had seen most ways possible to screw up getting back on the boat. So its not always tip scrounging service, or DM's trying to impose their wills, but often a boat policy IS based on how things actually work or don't work. Except for one collosal **** of a local DM, we all had no problems explaining the why or how, and if your needs don't fit, there was no reason not to communicate and find something that WILL work
Why some people insist on trying to reinvent the wheel I will never know.
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sorry guys.. long day offline... I needed to vent
Our policy was to have people hang on the surface tag line and take fins off before arriving at the ladder, pass them up once they grasp the ladder and then come up the ladder in full kit using BOTH hands.
We had this procedure for a reason. We briefed ALL divers on this for a reason. We explained our reasons. Still guests would invariably insist on doing it their own way. If you have issues with the boat's policy, all I can say is discuss it with the crew before hand!!! I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that "your" unique situation or requirement probably is not all that unique. We had seen a number of either look really stupid or put themselves into harm's way by not following our directions. In our case, the warm water meant that **most** divers were wearing full foot fins. Those with open heels were more than welcome to wrist their fins, but we did REQUIRE that guests have BOTH hands available for climbing the ladder since the typical day for us involved 2-3 foot chop crossing on top of a 5-6 swell...
Again we had seen most ways possible to screw up getting back on the boat. So its not always tip scrounging service, or DM's trying to impose their wills, but often a boat policy IS based on how things actually work or don't work. Except for one collosal **** of a local DM, we all had no problems explaining the why or how, and if your needs don't fit, there was no reason not to communicate and find something that WILL work
Why some people insist on trying to reinvent the wheel I will never know.
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sorry guys.. long day offline... I needed to vent
Most of my diving is in the Caribbean, and the tag line is my favorite place to take my fins off. It's that or hang on to a possibly-bouncing ladder, and I'm not fond of that at all.
I'll only climb the ladder with both hands, don't worry about that. Everyone I know uses open heel fins and dive boots, so when we take our fins off, they go on the wrist. I can't imagine trying to get up some of the ladders I've had to climb without BOTH hands.
Actually, I'm a huge fan of having all my gear fastened to me in some fashion at all times, and hands don't count because they can be unreliable
I never want to be in a situation where something of mine can be fumbled or get loose and drop to the bottom or float away.Similar threads
