DiveLikeAMuppet
Contributor
(nevermind, just saw it's related to Florida)
General red flags:
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General red flags:
- Unsafe skippers - someone who would drop divers in the water without the ability to pick them up later due to weather.
- No safety equipment on the boat or safety equipment that is clearly broken (radios, life vests, O2, ...)\
- Sloppy operation or safety culture,
- Skippers who miss wrecks and/or slack.
- Skippers or crew who lie to divers - about the dive sites, weather, plans, tides, safety, available gases,...
- Skippers who are just far too strange or funny in the head - all of them are characters but some are more than others, far too burned out, alcoholics etc.
- Overly dirty boat, faulty engines etc.
- No cabin to hide from the weather.
- Limited runtimes (unless there are really good reasons).
- Weird booking systems, dives announced last minute.
- No or limited parking nearby, difficult access to gas.
- Boat full of hammer & crowbar spidge hunters who strip the wrecks clean.
- Cliquey boats where you just don't feel welcomed due to a strong prevailing "boat culture" - unwritten rules or types of people who are the regulars.
- Boats that attract unsafe divers (usually goes hand in hand with the previous two).
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- Guided dives with DMs ?
- Tipping culture ??
- Crew touching my gear ???
- No dive lifts ?????????