Pet safety peeves--no debating

[Cacia]

ok, might be valuable. the idea is to post your top two safety concerns that you see when diving. The rule is you cannot debate! the idea is to post and move over, Rover. You are allowed two sentences (if you must) beyond your two itemized "safety infractions". Remember, pick ones near and dear to your heart. you are allowed to repeat posts because this will give us an idea how prevalent the problem is.

I'll go first:

1. divers surfacing in big seas with no markers, safety sausage. DM's letting them.

2. Extremely unfit divers in current with split fins. (oops)

 

[Diver Dennis]

-divers who have no buoyancy skills that trash reefs or stir up so much sand it is like the desert in a wind storm

-"Super Divers" who brag about diving everywhere and having so much experience to impress the other folks on the boat and when in the water are as I described above.

 

[Robert Phillips]

1. Divers who spend WAY too long in the surf zone.

2. Divers who cannot reach their tank valves.

 

[Michael Schlink]

1) Poor skills in general, that are visually obvious
2) Poor phyisical condition

 

[do it easy]

1. Divers who don't manage or keep track of their gas supply.

2. Divers who defog their mask and then float with the mask below the surface and all the defog washing off.

 

[onfloat]

1) Failure to plan your dive
2) poor attitude

 

[Cacia]

1) Failure to plan your dive
2) poor attitude

like the ODA loop?

oh...I heard one the other day from an excellent no gear (metal cam) diver, he said the most important peice of gear is a snorkel. He does not even have an alt. reg.

 

[dbg40]

Divers that post here with 16-50 dives, and hold court teaching, or critisizing others skills.

Diving over your head (skill level) before your ready, just to fit in.

 

[TheRedHead]

1) Divers who lie about their experience to get on the advanced boat and limit everyone else when they can't handle it.

2) Divers who ask you about your diving travels for the sole purpose of recounting their more exotic trip, "You know after a while, all those Caribbean sites look the same. On our last trip to Timbuktu, he had to load canoes and paddle for 3 days upriver..." Yeah, yeah.

 

[Cacia]

safety issues only kiddies. no people problems. okey dokey? that was pretty funny redhat!