Keeping dive sites a secret

[FinnMom]

Re pillaging from wrecks
I can't see the attaction as a diver because my reaction as a wife is so strong. Want a happier wife? Don't bring home what most people would pay to have taken to the dump.

 

[KeithG]

Gold and silver are coming up. I'll make no apologies to the next person.

Ah. That's different. You are just picking up loose change. No harm in that. Cleaning things up a bit.

 

[Storker]

Want a happier wife? Don't bring home what most people would pay to have taken to the dump.

There's no way in heck I'd ever start scavenging wrecks. My wife has enough issues with all the other crap I have in the garage. It would be a very bad idea to add a bunch of underwater garbage.

 

[dberry]

+1. My basement is a testament to various hobbies / passions of the past several decades, as my lovely wife is constantly pointing out. There's barely room to squeeze between the blacksmithing and ferrier's equipment, collectable old handtools, lathes, stationary power tools, racks of hardwood, etc. etc. Fortunately my daughters were in college when I started diving so a bedroom became the SCUBA gear storage locker.

 

[Searcaigh]

Too often I dive with brass collectors who pull portholes, instruments and anything green they can find and tell me to keep the site a secret until they have removed as much as they can.

You dive with BSAC divers ?

 

[blac86]

In florida you absolutely have to keep dive sites a secret. In say Seattle, fishermen don't fish the dive sites, but in florida if a fisherman sees a dive flag somewhere that means it's game on for him.

Not to mention the shocking number of Florida boaters that think a dive flag means "get as close as possible."

There's an artifical reef in the sarasota harbor that no one fished until I started Diving it with kayaks all the time, now it's constantly fished, and I can't dive it without risking entanglement, forget about depletion it's a safety issue.

 

[Schwob]

In florida you absolutely have to keep dive sites a secret. In say Seattle, fishermen don't fish the dive sites, but in florida if a fisherman sees a dive flag somewhere that means it's game on for him.

Not to mention the shocking number of Florida boaters that think a dive flag means "get as close as possible."

There's an artifical reef in the sarasota harbor that no one fished until I started Diving it with kayaks all the time, now it's constantly fished, and I can't dive it without risking entanglement, forget about depletion it's a safety issue.

Interesting point / fact & a shame...

 

[BoltSnap]

In florida you absolutely have to keep dive sites a secret. In say Seattle, fishermen don't fish the dive sites, but in florida if a fisherman sees a dive flag somewhere that means it's game on for him.

Not to mention the shocking number of Florida boaters that think a dive flag means "get as close as possible."

There's an artifical reef in the sarasota harbor that no one fished until I started Diving it with kayaks all the time, now it's constantly fished, and I can't dive it without risking entanglement, forget about depletion it's a safety issue.

Very similar situation for us in Libya except it is dynamite fishermen/criminals.

 

[joe10540]

That could make things interesting

 

[Schwob]

Very similar situation for us in Libya except it is dynamite fishermen/criminals.

Ouch...
I liked the funny reply following your post, but of course it is not really funny at all, just from afar...