Fair warning: I may not like perfectly nice people that when wet transform into noismaking nuisances all that much. I can live with them just fine afterward, but would really wish they could be convinced to drop the annoying habit.... or go to a waterpark instead..., ... Some thoughts:
If it's an actual, real emergency, I would think that either working the emergency or swimming to the buddy might be more productive then a noise maker. Yes, you could get tangle yourself up in a fishing net. Try not to, but if you really do, allright, make noise... but otherwise, why? Why oh why?
If you are diving with a buddy that actually is one and just must have his / her attention, pinch him /her touch the shoulder, calf, anything inbetween,... but why noise?
If you are same ocean buddies and were not giving each other attention to begin with, why does noise have to precede a temporary change of heart? Or what is so much more important in what you just noticed than in what your buddy swam away from you for in the first place?
If you need my octo, take it or take my primary, no need to make a racket first... Be prepared to get asked at the surface so as to how come that need arose.
Herding cats underwater? OK, use that noisemaker around the training platform. Yeah OK, and on your regular training reef patch if you absolutely must. Make whatever noise you think you cannot live without as instructor / DM there. But then drop the habit when you bring your cats transformed into divers elsewhere. Please...
If you're in some museum and you quietly talk to the person next to you, that's one thing. Would you holler across the room or hallways "hey come over here look at this painting I am looking at right now, immidiately, this second, because it's so much more rectangular than the one you are looking at"?
If not, then why would you use a noise maker underwater?
Are you a believing person maybe? Would you believe the reef is my church? (One of them anyway and I suspect I am not alone in ... in some way... feeling that way) Could you keep the noise down ... please... especially if serves no actual purpose anyway?
Do none of these thoughts have any effect?
How about this:
Why settle for merely annoying, 1, 5 or 15 divers at a time with your loud communication needs underwater? Take pictures or video, silently. Ascend, use youtube, facebook or even scubaboard. You have the opportunity to annoy thousands ... worldwide ... so much more efficient!
Sufficiently annoyed?
Sorry.
No, not really.
If it's an actual, real emergency, I would think that either working the emergency or swimming to the buddy might be more productive then a noise maker. Yes, you could get tangle yourself up in a fishing net. Try not to, but if you really do, allright, make noise... but otherwise, why? Why oh why?
If you are diving with a buddy that actually is one and just must have his / her attention, pinch him /her touch the shoulder, calf, anything inbetween,... but why noise?
If you are same ocean buddies and were not giving each other attention to begin with, why does noise have to precede a temporary change of heart? Or what is so much more important in what you just noticed than in what your buddy swam away from you for in the first place?
If you need my octo, take it or take my primary, no need to make a racket first... Be prepared to get asked at the surface so as to how come that need arose.
Herding cats underwater? OK, use that noisemaker around the training platform. Yeah OK, and on your regular training reef patch if you absolutely must. Make whatever noise you think you cannot live without as instructor / DM there. But then drop the habit when you bring your cats transformed into divers elsewhere. Please...
If you're in some museum and you quietly talk to the person next to you, that's one thing. Would you holler across the room or hallways "hey come over here look at this painting I am looking at right now, immidiately, this second, because it's so much more rectangular than the one you are looking at"?
If not, then why would you use a noise maker underwater?
Are you a believing person maybe? Would you believe the reef is my church? (One of them anyway and I suspect I am not alone in ... in some way... feeling that way) Could you keep the noise down ... please... especially if serves no actual purpose anyway?
Do none of these thoughts have any effect?
How about this:
Why settle for merely annoying, 1, 5 or 15 divers at a time with your loud communication needs underwater? Take pictures or video, silently. Ascend, use youtube, facebook or even scubaboard. You have the opportunity to annoy thousands ... worldwide ... so much more efficient!
Sufficiently annoyed?
Sorry.
No, not really.
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