sapphire
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Mo2vation:
ROFL Ken!!
Dive Boat Etiquette on SoCal Boats
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ROFL Ken!!
JustinW
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Mo2vation:
When the day is done, you still live in so-cal, where visibility is a concern for everyone, I mean above water, trying to peer through the brown muck thats in your air, while you drink the water that flows out of Lake Shasta and our other Nor-Cal lakes
D_O_H
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Ahem... let's not get too full of ourselves, shall we?:
Jen, did you hear something?
I swear, it sounded like a NoCal tear hitting the empty season seat in front of him. Either that, or the crying agony of people breaking limbs jumping off the Oakfrancisco Baseball bandwagon. Yeah - the playoffs will be stopping in Frisco real soon.
Friggen Yancy-get-a-real-name throws 98, and Bonds hasn't even suited up.
12-2. Deal with it. :10:
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Ken
I swear, it sounded like a NoCal tear hitting the empty season seat in front of him. Either that, or the crying agony of people breaking limbs jumping off the Oakfrancisco Baseball bandwagon. Yeah - the playoffs will be stopping in Frisco real soon.
Friggen Yancy-get-a-real-name throws 98, and Bonds hasn't even suited up.
12-2. Deal with it. :10:
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Ken
JustinW
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Haha, now I see why the Socal and NorCal boards are separated. You can have your sports teams, I will take my wide open spaces and breathable air.
Ahh I jab at ya, but what would we do without you, if we didn't have SoCal, we wouldn't have Ahnold as the Gov
Ahh I jab at ya, but what would we do without you, if we didn't have SoCal, we wouldn't have Ahnold as the Gov
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Someone earlier recommended arriving with a full tank. I dive out of Ventura and Santa Barbara, and I rarely arrive with a full tank. One boat charged me $4 for an initial fill, but no one ever seemed to mind.
I don't think it's rude, do you?
The whole reason I bought a tank was so I wouldn't have to stop by the dive shop before taking off from SLO to SB, LA, or Ventura.
I must say, I'm surprised at how many people don't tip at least 15%. The crew feeds you, fills your tanks, checks your air and general set up before you enter the water, takes roll after each dive, briefs you on each site, will jump in the water to save your life, store your forgotten gear in lost and found, and will often be very friendly.
I don't think it's rude, do you?
The whole reason I bought a tank was so I wouldn't have to stop by the dive shop before taking off from SLO to SB, LA, or Ventura.
I must say, I'm surprised at how many people don't tip at least 15%. The crew feeds you, fills your tanks, checks your air and general set up before you enter the water, takes roll after each dive, briefs you on each site, will jump in the water to save your life, store your forgotten gear in lost and found, and will often be very friendly.
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Don't talk loudly in the bunk area on overnight trips or when people are sleeping.
part. Heresy!! I just finished a fine Balvenie 21 so I am down to the 18yr Glenmorangie. 
Reeveseye
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I wouldnt have thought it necessary to add this to the discussion, but last Sundays experience aboard The Great Escape proved me wrong. To put it bluntly,
TAKE THE POST-DIVE ROLL CALL AS SERIOUSLY AS EVERYONE ELSE DOES!!!
We finished our first dive, and the divemaster called everyone to the rear of the boat so he could conduct an audio/visual roll call before heading to the next site. Theyd made it perfectly clear earlier that they expected you to be present for roll call, and not just yell Here! from the depths of the boat or have someone else answer for you. Almost immediately, the roll call was held up while they started looking for someone who didnt answer up. After a few minutes of repeatedly calling his name, someone managed to dredge up this scrawny fifteen-year old kid who shuffled out onto the rear deck, looking annoyed at being inconvenienced by the divemasters insistence on actually seeing him. He finally piped up with a surly Here! and a roll of his eyes. I wanted to backhand the little snot, then go find his parents and smack them as well for raising such a dimwit.
Please bear in mind that there are very good reasons for divemasters insisting on hearing AND seeing you. If youre new around here or new to diving, you may not have heard of some incidents in the last few years involving divers getting left behind by dive boats (please dont hijack this thread with arguments about whose fault those incidents were that's irrelevant to our discussion here). Any divemaster worth his C-card doesnt want that to occur on their watch, and neither do the boat captains. No matter whose fault it is, its their arse in a sling if anything like that happens. So please cut them some slack and get with the roll call program, even if your teenage attitude has you convinced that youre too cool to answer up.
Of course, this is sound advice for ANY dive boat, not just the ones in Southern California.
TAKE THE POST-DIVE ROLL CALL AS SERIOUSLY AS EVERYONE ELSE DOES!!!
We finished our first dive, and the divemaster called everyone to the rear of the boat so he could conduct an audio/visual roll call before heading to the next site. Theyd made it perfectly clear earlier that they expected you to be present for roll call, and not just yell Here! from the depths of the boat or have someone else answer for you. Almost immediately, the roll call was held up while they started looking for someone who didnt answer up. After a few minutes of repeatedly calling his name, someone managed to dredge up this scrawny fifteen-year old kid who shuffled out onto the rear deck, looking annoyed at being inconvenienced by the divemasters insistence on actually seeing him. He finally piped up with a surly Here! and a roll of his eyes. I wanted to backhand the little snot, then go find his parents and smack them as well for raising such a dimwit.
Please bear in mind that there are very good reasons for divemasters insisting on hearing AND seeing you. If youre new around here or new to diving, you may not have heard of some incidents in the last few years involving divers getting left behind by dive boats (please dont hijack this thread with arguments about whose fault those incidents were that's irrelevant to our discussion here). Any divemaster worth his C-card doesnt want that to occur on their watch, and neither do the boat captains. No matter whose fault it is, its their arse in a sling if anything like that happens. So please cut them some slack and get with the roll call program, even if your teenage attitude has you convinced that youre too cool to answer up.
Of course, this is sound advice for ANY dive boat, not just the ones in Southern California.
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