Red Foreman
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1. Bring your certification card, do NOT count on being dive checked ANYWHERE in the world. If the power is out or the internet is down it may not be possible for you to be dive checked. If you have lost your c-card then get a new one.
2. Pack for the boat. While your bag may be great for an airplane ride, get a mesh bag for ease of transport. This will save you wear and tear on a nice piece of luggage in the long run. Make sure you have everything you need, some dive operators do not have spare gear on the boat but also don't bring a bunch of extra crap you don't need.
3. If there is a name tag on your gear bag, then USE IT, if there isn't a name tag then GET ONE AND USE IT. Lots of gear bags look alike and it is likely yours is NOT UNIQUE. Use the name on your gear bag that you book with, not some nick-name no one but you knows you have. Finally, keep your stuff under your seat and not in the aisle where people will trip over it.
4. If you are going on a trip have your gear serviced before you go and make sure you have a new computer battery.
5. Show up on time. Don't be late. Bring your own towel, according to the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; "A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have." So bring your own.
6. Listen to the dive site briefing, in spite of what some people on this forum may think most dive guides actually do know what they are doing and will make sure you dive safely. It is not in their interest to have you run out of either air or no deco time. If you don't want to dive safely then get your own boat.
7. If you have a camera, hang on to it and keep it with you, don't leave it in your gear bag.
8. Space on the boats are limited. Sit where your gear is or where there is no gear, don't lounge in someone else's assigned spot.
9. Don't hang your mask on a tank, clip it to your BC or put it someplace where it won't be stepped on or otherwise broken.
10. Last but not least, if you don't know if you get sea sick, then take some thing the night before and the morning of. Talk to your doctor about it, it's not like this is ED or something... Or just bring some ginger ale, ginger candy (with real ginger) or ginger pills since if you are already sick it's too late to take anything else.
2. Pack for the boat. While your bag may be great for an airplane ride, get a mesh bag for ease of transport. This will save you wear and tear on a nice piece of luggage in the long run. Make sure you have everything you need, some dive operators do not have spare gear on the boat but also don't bring a bunch of extra crap you don't need.
3. If there is a name tag on your gear bag, then USE IT, if there isn't a name tag then GET ONE AND USE IT. Lots of gear bags look alike and it is likely yours is NOT UNIQUE. Use the name on your gear bag that you book with, not some nick-name no one but you knows you have. Finally, keep your stuff under your seat and not in the aisle where people will trip over it.
4. If you are going on a trip have your gear serviced before you go and make sure you have a new computer battery.
5. Show up on time. Don't be late. Bring your own towel, according to the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; "A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have." So bring your own.
6. Listen to the dive site briefing, in spite of what some people on this forum may think most dive guides actually do know what they are doing and will make sure you dive safely. It is not in their interest to have you run out of either air or no deco time. If you don't want to dive safely then get your own boat.
7. If you have a camera, hang on to it and keep it with you, don't leave it in your gear bag.
8. Space on the boats are limited. Sit where your gear is or where there is no gear, don't lounge in someone else's assigned spot.
9. Don't hang your mask on a tank, clip it to your BC or put it someplace where it won't be stepped on or otherwise broken.
10. Last but not least, if you don't know if you get sea sick, then take some thing the night before and the morning of. Talk to your doctor about it, it's not like this is ED or something... Or just bring some ginger ale, ginger candy (with real ginger) or ginger pills since if you are already sick it's too late to take anything else.
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