Pet safety peeves--no debating
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Fish_Whisperer
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dherbman:
Damn straight!! WHOO-HOO!!
JeffG
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My only pet peeve about in the water stuff is
The buddy that likes to travel behind and above me.
The buddy that likes to travel behind and above me.
catherine96821:
You know, Catherine, I was thinking the very same thing. PM me you're email address.
I'll do the first 60 posts if you do the rest and I'll mail you the results and you can post it and/or make a sticky thread or article out of it for posterity sake. After all, it's your thread. You deserve the credit.
R..
I think attitudes bother me more than most of the others. A lot of my peeves have to do with the way things happen on boats or divers damaging the reef and I think reef damage may be an attitude of unawareness or disrespect. When I was a newbie, I always tried to stay several feet off the reef.
I usually don't get peeved with people on a dive trip. I'm much more likely to get peeved on the internet.
I usually don't get peeved with people on a dive trip. I'm much more likely to get peeved on the internet.
Storm
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As I am a new diver I really shouldn't comment ( according to those who say diver , with only 16 -50 dive don't count) but from my limited experience:
1) DI's who through their arrogance, lead new divers on "trust me" dives, cut corners and then when something goes wrong (as what happened on my AOW deep dive -- we got thought it but it scared the hell out of me), try to gloss it over by saying that my buddy and I did fine, given the circumstances.
2) New divers. like myself, who allow themselves to fall into the "he/she is a DI, is professional, and I should be able to trust them" trap (did that once will NEVER do that again.
3) 1000+ UBER divers who have fogotten what it was like to be new and therefore have no patience with new divers and thus do not even try to help out us newbies.
1) DI's who through their arrogance, lead new divers on "trust me" dives, cut corners and then when something goes wrong (as what happened on my AOW deep dive -- we got thought it but it scared the hell out of me), try to gloss it over by saying that my buddy and I did fine, given the circumstances.
2) New divers. like myself, who allow themselves to fall into the "he/she is a DI, is professional, and I should be able to trust them" trap (did that once will NEVER do that again.
3) 1000+ UBER divers who have fogotten what it was like to be new and therefore have no patience with new divers and thus do not even try to help out us newbies.
Bobbin-along
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As a new diver I am very clear as to my skills when going out with others, so the expectation is set before we commit to a dive together. That's just good manners. But if people still want to go out, then they have to understand that I am slower to gear up (which is why I show up earlier and start prepping sooner), from time to time I may not have perfect bouyancy, and I may be anal retentive about the pre-dive discussion where I ask a million questions.
It's not fair to assume that people like me will never dive in public until we have mastered skills in our bath tub. Besides the obvious difficulties of transitioning from 12 inches of tap water to 50 degree salt water, there are finer nuances of actually propelling yourself and maneuvering.
So with that caveat my safety pet peeves are:
Senior divers who are too comfortable.
Divers who blow off safety things like checking to make sure you know each other's gear before going out. With so many different models and styles of gear it's important to know how each other's works. For example, I don't have a standard yellow safety second reg I use my Air2 module on my BC. So it's good for people to know that they would get my reg rather than try to find my emergency reg. Same thing about where is their knife, how weights, BC or BP/W comes off, etc.
Divers who don't talk about how y'all like to be buddied up (side by side, top/bottom, in-line). That becomes a point of annoyance that makes a seemingly fun dive miserable and if you aren't looking in the right place you won't ever find your buddy in bad vis.
Not looking around for your buddy.
Embarassing someone into pushing their comfort zone.
It's not fair to assume that people like me will never dive in public until we have mastered skills in our bath tub. Besides the obvious difficulties of transitioning from 12 inches of tap water to 50 degree salt water, there are finer nuances of actually propelling yourself and maneuvering.
So with that caveat my safety pet peeves are:
Senior divers who are too comfortable.
Divers who blow off safety things like checking to make sure you know each other's gear before going out. With so many different models and styles of gear it's important to know how each other's works. For example, I don't have a standard yellow safety second reg I use my Air2 module on my BC. So it's good for people to know that they would get my reg rather than try to find my emergency reg. Same thing about where is their knife, how weights, BC or BP/W comes off, etc.
Divers who don't talk about how y'all like to be buddied up (side by side, top/bottom, in-line). That becomes a point of annoyance that makes a seemingly fun dive miserable and if you aren't looking in the right place you won't ever find your buddy in bad vis.
Not looking around for your buddy.
Embarassing someone into pushing their comfort zone.
lead bottom
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Playacar dive operations that have boat crews that would rather socialize with each other than watch for divers on the surface.
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