Georgia bubble blower
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I realize this is a bit long but maybe you'll find it a bit interesting if you take the time to read it. I was thinking today. My wife and I have been going down to Key Largo to dive every summer for quite a few years and about 4 years ago we decided to start taking our own boat down which we use to dive from. Before we actually took our boat for the first time I tried to educate myself as much as I could about boating on the reefs and the etiquette that goes along with that. I didn't find a whole lot. Especially something comprehensive and all in one place. I found a little here and a little there. A lot of it was on this forum actually. I took what I read and what I had learned from going out on dive boats and from watching others on the reef and kind of combined them to come up with my own plan. We will be making our trip down this June and as I was already trying to get things planned out I started thinking about posting this. I figured maybe we could get a good post going and maybe we could all learn something. Most of all me. After all, we all want to have a good time on the reefs and not inconvenience anyone else. I don't. Especially if it's because I didn't know something that I should have known. For example...proper technique for approaching and departing the mooring balls. Deploying a long current line or granny line or whatever you may call it. I mean...is it ok to just let your 50 foot line stay out behind the boat while you dive? We all probably have our own way of doing things but is it the right way? I certainly don't want to ruin someones trip to a reef because I was ignorant and didn't know the do's and don'ts and I especially don't want someone ruining mine. This can be boater and/or diver etiquette. So...what ya got? I know that there are a couple of recent threads on these subjects (I did a search) but I figured what the heck. The purpose of the forum is to learn and to share so why not put it together in one. Maybe it will be great and make sticky status. You never know what you might say that just might help someone. And I realize I misspelled Don'ts in the title. Sorry about that.