2airishuman
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I was in Coz earlier this year and dived with my trilobite, because I never dive without it. Nothing was said, and I had no idea they are supposed to be prohibited.
Dive knifes still not allowed?
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AZNetEng
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We (dive ops) don't make the rules, it's simply our job as stewards of the park to enforce the rules or risk very large fines if one of our divers misuses these tools.
You would be very surprised at what people do with them. There are a lot of poorly trained, reckless and irresponsible divers out there unfortunately. So again, our job to enforce the rules with some reasonable and appropriate discretion.
As goproeck said above - small blunt nose knives discreetly attached to your BCD or cutting sheers are not a problem, but if you try strapping a big Bowie knife to your leg, you'll be called out on that.
In re gloves - if a diver needs them for thermal or medical reasons, we allow them. However if you start grabbing onto things at will - you'll be asked to remove them.
And goproeck- just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't monitoring - there are quite often "secret shoppers" from the marine park on board the larger boats and underwater watching groups, particularly when there have been complaints about certain ops or DM's. The MP also sends out lists to the ops of DM's or Instructors who are suspended from providing services.
Again, don't shot the messenger, we don't make the rules but it is our responsibility to enforce them with reasonable discretion as stated above.
You would be very surprised at what people do with them. There are a lot of poorly trained, reckless and irresponsible divers out there unfortunately. So again, our job to enforce the rules with some reasonable and appropriate discretion.
As goproeck said above - small blunt nose knives discreetly attached to your BCD or cutting sheers are not a problem, but if you try strapping a big Bowie knife to your leg, you'll be called out on that.
In re gloves - if a diver needs them for thermal or medical reasons, we allow them. However if you start grabbing onto things at will - you'll be asked to remove them.
And goproeck- just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't monitoring - there are quite often "secret shoppers" from the marine park on board the larger boats and underwater watching groups, particularly when there have been complaints about certain ops or DM's. The MP also sends out lists to the ops of DM's or Instructors who are suspended from providing services.
Again, don't shot the messenger, we don't make the rules but it is our responsibility to enforce them with reasonable discretion as stated above.
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As Christi indicates, keep it stowed, keep it discreet, use common sense, for goodness sake! I've never had problems with such items in Cozumel, because I don't put others in an obviously embarrassing position of having to call me out on anything.
AZNetEng
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Thanks for the explanation Christi. Sounds like they have had issues with divers misusing them. Ill consider myself fortunate to have not encountered anyone to date doing things like that.
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