Dive boat attire and etiquette

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tparrent:
I wondered about labeling gear. Do people use a waterproof permanent marker on gear?
Yeah, put my name on your gear for me in permanent marker...it's spelled C......what? oh, you mean your name?!? sure, go ahead.
C-Dawg
 
VaDiver:
Great ideas from everyone!

One thing I might add: once you jump in, turn around and take a look at the boat from your new water-level perspective. Pay attention to the color and note any identifying characteristics. This will help if you surface from your dive and you have to pick your boat out from others at crowded dive sites.

Not that there's anything WRONG with boarding the wrong boat! :)

Enjoy your trip!!
It would be nice if dive boats would paint their names on the hulls. :confused:
 
I take a compass reading on the anchor and hope they don't move the boat.
 
Scubakevdm:
Ooh. Charlie, you forgot 10!

10. Introduce yourself to the crew and passengers by performing a haunting interpretive dance piece in total silence.


Trust me, I know dive boat etiquette.


I take it that would be a soft shoe?
 
redhatmama:
I take a compass reading on the anchor and hope they don't move the boat.

Yes I'm back to haunt ya again! Ok lets extrapulate on that statement: If you take a compass reading on the anchor and your dive takes you along that reading or the reciprocal and you reverse it to get back to the boat thats fine. Or do you find a piece of structure at depth and take a reading from there to the anchor so that once you find that benchmark you can then determine which is your boat? Or are you good at underwater math and you count your fin kicks and add 90 deg to your headings 3 times and get back to the boat that way?:06:
I'm really not taunting just curious??
 
I do know boat captains and crews to be uptight about the bannana-bad luck. However...
Wasn't it also considered bad luck for women to be on board as well? It's only a matter of time before the bannana thing goes down, EQUAL RIGHTS FOR BANNANAS!
 
es601:
Yes I'm back to haunt ya again! Ok lets extrapulate on that statement: If you take a compass reading on the anchor and your dive takes you along that reading or the reciprocal and you reverse it to get back to the boat thats fine. Or do you find a piece of structure at depth and take a reading from there to the anchor so that once you find that benchmark you can then determine which is your boat? Or are you good at underwater math and you count your fin kicks and add 90 deg to your headings 3 times and get back to the boat that way?:06:
I'm really not taunting just curious??


I use waypoints. Start from the anchorline and swim out to a prominent structure. You can either take a compass reading on waypoint and the anchor would be the reciprocal or take a compass reading on the anchor from the waypoint. No, I don't use kick cycles, but I try to keep a mental map of where I have been and how to get back.

I was diving in Florida in pretty bad viz and couln't find the anchorline on my compass heading, back and forth we went looking for it. Finally surfaced downcurrent of the boat and the captain says, "I saw your bubbles right under the boat and you just kept swimming." And I said, "I don't know how I missed the anchorline because I took a compass reading on it." "Anchor pulled out and I had to reanchor.." Duh! :banghead:
 
slingshot:
Here's my newbie tip: if the tank valve is being held by a bungie, as they often are, undo the bungie before attaching your 1st stage. Not that I've ever done that!

So you attach your 1st stage and re-bungie for the trip out cause the DM says "always keep those tanks bungied." Just remember to unhook that bungie before you slip into your BC for the dive, or you will wonder what made your tank so blasted heavy when you try to stand up. After having the bungie yank me down a couple of times, I realized what was holding me back.
 

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