strikeshield
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My dive club does the Conestoga in Cardinal Ontario quite a bit for our check out dives. The last dive of the second day is a "treasure hunt" for the new divers. Now I don't feel good about having colored rocks placed inside the wreck for the new divers to find. Divers scrounge around the inside of the wreck and probably contribute to aging it a bit. Nevertheless, I was more dismayed to spot during our dive, that someone had actually attached a cyalume stick to the bow of the deck and attached it with, of all things, a freakin tie-wrap. Now the stick was obviously dead and had been placed there probably days or weeks before, but the idiot who did this, never went back to remove it. Without pliers, the Tie-wrap cannot be removed.
I also agree with the other posters especially GDI (since he was my instructor...) that seeing instructors take their students down to the silt and kneel or stand in it is discouraging. I am not very experienced, but GDI drove the idea of proper trim and buoyancy into us at the outset of the course and explained the reasoning for it. I agree wholeheartedly with the recommendation. I am still amazed, however, to see PADI "AOW" divers diving in a quasi vertical position finning into the silt. I was in Maui a few months ago and the dive masters at Lahaina Divers briefed us on not standing on coral etc. before we jumped into the water. First thing I saw in the water was one of their "master" divers doing exactly that during a dive.
I am saddened to see that many divers just don't give a crap. It is not a difficult concept to grasp, "enjoy your dives, touch nothing and leave only bubbles" so that many more people can enjoy the site or wreck. It's like letting your dog crap on the neighbour's lawn and not pick it up.
Just my $0.02 anyways.
Great discussion.
Christian L.
I also agree with the other posters especially GDI (since he was my instructor...) that seeing instructors take their students down to the silt and kneel or stand in it is discouraging. I am not very experienced, but GDI drove the idea of proper trim and buoyancy into us at the outset of the course and explained the reasoning for it. I agree wholeheartedly with the recommendation. I am still amazed, however, to see PADI "AOW" divers diving in a quasi vertical position finning into the silt. I was in Maui a few months ago and the dive masters at Lahaina Divers briefed us on not standing on coral etc. before we jumped into the water. First thing I saw in the water was one of their "master" divers doing exactly that during a dive.
I am saddened to see that many divers just don't give a crap. It is not a difficult concept to grasp, "enjoy your dives, touch nothing and leave only bubbles" so that many more people can enjoy the site or wreck. It's like letting your dog crap on the neighbour's lawn and not pick it up.
Just my $0.02 anyways.
Great discussion.
Christian L.