My "Places I Won't Dive" List (and yours...)

[DandyDon]

San Antonio river. Although, you could just stand up on the bottom, take off your mask, order a drink at any number of places, put your mask back on, and head down river, take off your mask again, order a few enchiladas, etc.

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[ScubaMike14]

Lake Pueblo, Colorado.

 

[Scuba Jerm]

just watch out for critters

Good point, perhaps the free golf won't be worth it?

 

[tracker]

Anywhere my ex-wife knows people

 

[Ben_ca]

San Antonio river. Although, you could just stand up on the bottom, take off your mask, order a drink at any number of places, put your mask back on, and head down river, take off your mask again, order a few enchiladas, etc.

:LOL: The river walk would be a blast!!! surface right in front of Dick's wiht a speargun

 

[victor]

Wow! On a more serious note, Crocs are certainly dangerous. One recently grabbed an American doctor out of a canoe in Botswana. He'd moved there in an heroic effort to help the country fight a 40% Aids rate. Crocodile Kills Medical Professor

In Africa humans are part of the natural food supply for large crocs. They will take anything that comes to the riverside to drink or collect water. Very few fatalities get reported in the local press never mind in the international papers.
No one knows how many people are taken every year but I would expect it to be measured in hundreds.
Hippo are very dangerous to fishermen in boats and curious tourists wandering the banks in the evening. The difference is the hippo will kill you by accident where as the croc will actively hunt you for dinner.

 

[String]

Any site that involves shore diving is off my list.

 

[DennisW]

I don't do deep dark holes.

 

[Ironcat]

Hippo are very dangerous to fishermen in boats and curious tourists wandering the banks in the evening. The difference is the hippo will kill you by accident where as the croc will actively hunt you for dinner.

Hippos do not kill people by accident. Hippos are quite intent on the killing they do. They are large, territorial animals, with foot long tusks. The hippo is extremely aggressive, unpredictable and unafraid of humans, upsetting boats sometimes without provocation and chomping the occupants with its huge canine teeth and sharp incisors. Most human deaths occur when the victim gets between the hippo and deep water or between a mother and her calf.

Another reason not to dive with hippos is that they poop a lot.. I mean A LOT... and they blow that poop, mixed with urine, into the water and use their tail like a propellor to shower the surrounding area.

 

[PhotoTJ]

Well, I was gonna say I'll dive anywhere, but now I'll say anywhere with at least 2' of viz, something to look at, and no hippos or crocs.

I mean, if there is nothing to see, or you are going to be eaten, why dive it?