Safety Risk for Children on dive boats

[adurso]

I don't know what kind of boats some of you are diving on, but most of the ones I dive on don't have any extra space for day care and non-divers taking up space and getting in the way.

Some of the cattle boats in the Keys have plenty of space, they are what I think of when I mention taking younger kids out to snorkel.

 

[gcarter]

Some of the cattle boats in the Keys have plenty of space, they are what I think of when I mention taking younger kids out to snorkel.

In that instance they are paying customers getting in the water - which I don't have an issue with.

 

[Lorenzoid]

This all boils down to the expectation that the crew will babysit sub ten year old children.

That is not reasonable.

Taking young children out on a dive boat to snorkel without leaving them at all is a different matter.

Personally I would not have left my children in the care of some strangers on a dive boat when they were that age...

I'm thinking that even if a boat were to require a non-diving adult (not crew) supervising the child at all times, it's HARD to keep a kid from moving around. And now TWO seats are taken by those non-divers on an already cramped boat. As I have said in my previous comments, unless we're talking a BIG boat, with an interior salon or upper deck, I just don't see how it's feasible.

 

[T.C.]

Oops

Did not have my contact lens in.

No worries.