How is YOUR diving etiquette?.......

[SkimFisher]

I have to disagree with this. The dive is more important, but I enjoy the company of my fellow divers, almost always. All it takes is one obnoxious guest to really detract from the whole experience, especially on a liveaboard.

I'm not saying I don't. I would just rather you be a jackass on land than in the water.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Why be discrete? All divers know they are likely to have a messy face after a dive, I just tell you that you have brains on your face. I don't care who hears me. As the old saying goes, "You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose."

I just tell 'em they're "smuggling a nudibranch" ... and if they're someone I consider a friend, I might take a picture of 'em with their pet nudi ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[FireInMyBones]

Be on time, Be polite, Keep a clean space, Help when help is needed, Stay off the bottom, Be aware of your surroundings, Put the seat down, Respect others but feel free to have an open discussion, don't be a d--k.

 

[Walter]

Put the seat down

Screw that, put the lid down. Otherwise you are flinging poop all over the room when you flush. Think about that next time you brush your teeth.

 

[Blackwood]

Oh also say 'goggles' for mask too

Try 'snorkel' for 'regulator' sometime.

flip·per

   /ˈflɪp

ər/ Show Spelled[flip-er] Show IPA
–noun1.a broad, flat limb, as of a seal or whale, especially adapted for swimming.

2.Also called fin. one of a pair of paddlelike devices, usually of rubber, worn on the feet as an aid in scuba diving and swimming.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

flip·per

   /ˈflɪp

ər/ Show Spelled[flip-er] Show IPA
–noun1.a broad, flat limb, as of a seal or whale, especially adapted for swimming.

2.Also called fin. one of a pair of paddlelike devices, usually of rubber, worn on the feet as an aid in scuba diving and swimming.

Flipper ... (yes, that's me scratching his melon) ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[mikemill]

Flipper ... (yes, that's me scratching his melon) ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

You are out of trim

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

You are out of trim

I'll say ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[diverdoug1]

You are out of trim

That's the good thing about trim, if you are out of trim, you can always go out and find more trim

 

[jmasin]

Yes, it's almost predictable ... human nature, perhaps. At about 50 dives, people start getting comfortable with what they learned in their initial classes and begin to think they've got it all figured out. At about 100 dives, they start to realize that they don't know it all just yet. And by 500 dives they are well on their way to developing an understanding of how much they have yet to learn.

I've got ~50, and I still think of myself as new. That's what sort of makes me laugh about some of the cert levels.

You can get advanced after what, 25? Master after 50? I forget exact #'s, but I wouldn't consider myself a few classroom hours away from really being a "master diver" but I could certainly pay my $400 and get the card that says so...

Of my 50, maybe a little more than 1/2 have been open ocean dives. Others have been local lake (which here means large pond at 30', I don't mean large lakes). I have learned something from every dive but I can't, and wouldn't, really claim my experience level to be "master"ful...

I frankly think the experience bar should be higher for advanced levels of certification. This may help to quell the know-it-all 50 dive guy.

JMHO.