Last Day - A Few Observations

[Gray Diver]

4. The greatest part of diving freedom is also a problem - I saw MANY divers, unsupervised, bashing the reef. I guess this goes with the territory, but if there were true “checkout dives” where your buoyancy skills were evaluated perhaps the damage could be limited.

Unfortunately, I doubt that buoyancy skills are the full story, (don't get me wrong, it is part of the problem), but in the past month, diving on Bonaire, Curacao, Statia and now in Antigua, I've watched divers with excellent buoyancy skills touching and grabbing onto everything from tube and barrel sponges to running the soft corals thru their fingers. Some people just have to touch things.