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Dive boat etiquette - when to turn the dive on a charter?
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but when @johndiver999 comes down and rips my arm off like I'm an axolotl, I'm swimming away, but I will demand my Perdix AI when I do make it back on the boat.
If you come up to check on my air let along try and grab my arm, you're getting a palm straight in your face. If you're not my buddy, leave me alone and let me do my dive. If I'm following the boat's protocol, which I always do by the way, nothing about my dive is any of your business. My air, my NDL, my ascent profile. Nothing.
easy there Francis. John was joking. Just as I was about letting him rip my arm off and swimming away.
Good to know. Not sure what happened to that laughing emoji? Oh yea, it's right there.
People say all kinds of ridiculous things on here. Without some sort of an emoji, it's hard to know when a series of posts are joking with each other. My bad. But still ... don't come check on my air. I'm fine!
BTW ... I LOVE that movie!!!
johndiver999
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wow talk about selective quoting.. I said I was not being serious. LOL.
I always thought these people who spend $1000 more than they need for a computer would be happy to show it off to everybody who cares to looked at their colored display, bar graphs, G factors and who knows what the heck else those things do. Can you tell I'm a little jealous?
I see it more as an attempt to deescalate the debate we were having.
Would it have been preferable for him to make rude comments about my mother instead?
Yea my bad for not fully catching up/reading fully the new posts in context.
johndiver999
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And in all seriousness, if (which doesn't really happen anymore) I find myself as a customer on a recreational dive boat and another customer is acting strangely and the DM is not in close proximity, I would, if not doing anything else particularly engaging, check up on them.
If it was at the end of the dive and a straggler might be acting in an unusual manner, I would probably just swim down in front of them, maybe 8 ft away, turn and look at them and see what their eyes look like and then give them the OK sign. If I can't read their air pressure from 6 feet away (often I can see it pretty well) I then might show them mine and see if they will reciprocate. I probably wouldn't even tap their shoulder unless they seemed unresponsive or I was getting way low on air or I was in a big hurry or something.
Physically moving someone toward the surface... I've only had to do that twice that I can recall and it was due to serious emergencies, not a straggling sightseer.
If it was at the end of the dive and a straggler might be acting in an unusual manner, I would probably just swim down in front of them, maybe 8 ft away, turn and look at them and see what their eyes look like and then give them the OK sign. If I can't read their air pressure from 6 feet away (often I can see it pretty well) I then might show them mine and see if they will reciprocate. I probably wouldn't even tap their shoulder unless they seemed unresponsive or I was getting way low on air or I was in a big hurry or something.
Physically moving someone toward the surface... I've only had to do that twice that I can recall and it was due to serious emergencies, not a straggling sightseer.
I ignore the other divers during a group dive. I like to stay behind them, since groups typically move to fast. I stay close enough to see their bubbles at the surface, but out of sight from the group. I let a possibly assigned 'buddy' know that he or she should seek other companions, though I usually tell the DM that I will not accept a buddy. I go slowly enough to enjoy things that interest me, and move quickly past things that do not. In short, I convert the dive to a solo event. No redundant gear, just stuff I've been using for years. On some deeper or more challenging dives I might have a small bail out, enough to easily reach the surface.
There is a kind of balance, an equation, between safety and minimalism. I favor the sleeker minimalist approach and accept the very small risk, just like driving at speed on the highway in the rain or sky diving.
Though I ignore the other divers, they don't always return the courtesy. If DMs ask for my tank volume I let them know, though I'll ignore their gestures to follow them. I understand that most divers are at a kindergarten level and think the DM is their teacher. I'm not and I don't. I am pretty old, so I understand why they tend to peer closely at me from time to time to see if I've died yet. I don't mind as long as they don't try to get me to follow them or interfere with my activity.
There is a kind of balance, an equation, between safety and minimalism. I favor the sleeker minimalist approach and accept the very small risk, just like driving at speed on the highway in the rain or sky diving.
Though I ignore the other divers, they don't always return the courtesy. If DMs ask for my tank volume I let them know, though I'll ignore their gestures to follow them. I understand that most divers are at a kindergarten level and think the DM is their teacher. I'm not and I don't. I am pretty old, so I understand why they tend to peer closely at me from time to time to see if I've died yet. I don't mind as long as they don't try to get me to follow them or interfere with my activity.
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