Wizard Wand for a Scuba Stick?

[Michael Fripp]

Any reason to avoid using a Harry Potter-style wand as a scuba point stick?
(Other than the laughter from muggle divers and the envy of other divers)

It would not be difficult to modify a wizarding wand to enable it to be clipped to your body. The wand can be made from copper or from hardwood, so they would not decompose quickly. And they are about the same length as a standard scuba pointer stick.

Anything that I am missing before I allow my teenager to use a wizarding scuba stick?

 

[Zef]

There is a tendency that when folks start carrying a stick as a pointer, they start poking with it and use it as support instead of using good buoyancy skills. I can't imagine a scenrio where the average diver, yet alone your teenager, is better off carrying a pointer stick, and highly recommend not diving with one.

That being said, one is free to use whatever they want as their chosen stick to point with, be it a wand from the world of Harry Potter, or a black and white magician's wand. Probably the only detractor for the wizard's wand is the cost...often stainless steel pointer sticks can be bought for a couple dollars from vendors along the waterfront at just about any dive destination around the world. I purchased one with a small carabiner for about $2US, a short handful of years ago while diving in the Philippines....but after using it for a few dives I reallized how much of a crutch it had become and it has been collecting dust in a bin ever since.

-Z

 

[tursiops]

ANY kind of pointer is disallowed in many locations.