bad habits to avoid?

[irishsquid]

Using the thumbs up to mean you're having a great time. God I hate the Scuba hand signals. Couldn't you just use your index finger to point upward? Gosh...

I'm with you on this one. Thumbs up meant All OK in the Navy. I worked the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and was a "Final Checker" before the aircraft launched. I had to give a thumbs up or down before the aircraft could launch. Too many years of military training/discipline is darn hard to modify. I try tho'

 

[CAPT HOOK]

Worrying about MOF!

 

[billtodive]

Touching/messing with other peoples gear.:no

 

[Minipinny]

I am slowly learning to keep my hands quiet. And just started tweaking my safety stops. As for my bouyancy I am much better now at 21 dives under my belt than when I first got certified. I moved from 31 lbs down to 22 lbs and hope I can take off a couple of more pounds to the max.

I have a beef when diving with others cos I don't seem to get a "textbook style" of preplanning with my buddy. I am learning to just ask brief important questions that make the dive safe and fun. Make sure there is oen communication between you amd your buddy to make sure expectations are the same.

 

[trucker girl]

To echo Jocasseegirl and deepblueme a little:

Bravado and talking down to people. Two bad habits that really rub me wrong.

Speaking of MOF did anyone see The Guardian? Do Coast Guard resue divers really put their masks on their foreheads (how the heck do you spell forehead? forhead? I'm too lazy to check it) or is this another Hollywood oopsie? I kept thinking "they have GOT to have a CG consultant on the set somewhere and any one of us would be like "hello- mask OFF for(e)head already." There were some other things too.

Sorry- I don't want to hijack the thread or anything but this is bad habit territory.

 

[ae3753]

Thinking that you're better than or above the dive.

Humans are not supposed to be underwater, we can't forget that.

 

[Divrdug]

Never get too big for my britches on a dive. There are old divers and bold divers but not many old,bold divers

 

[wulvrine74]

AMEN RJP!
Sometimes I forget to go through my things before I go on a dive and I end up forgetting something. I thought I put it back after it was cleaned out from the last dive, but it really wasnt.

For new divers, I have noticed a lot of belly rubbing on the coral... STAY OFF THE CORAL! And dont waste your energy by trying to kick fast, slow down and enjoy the dive.

 

[nymbus]

Not logging dives. How wonderful would it be to have an outline of all of those dives, sac rates, weighting changes, gear servicing, buddy phone numbers...
besides all the interesting stories I would actually have proof of. A computer can log a dive and print it out... but it won't tell you the stories itself.

 

[scubafool]

Bringing up MOF/NMOF on ScubaBoard.

Seriously, of all the actual real bad HABITS, not lack of skill or unsafe attitudes, but actual habits, the one that I have seen the most and seems to be really hard to break is swimming with your hands.