ScubaSteve
Wow.....what a DB
Thank you for posting here Scott. It is great to know that the ABMP is still going strong. I would appreciate it if you coul do me the favour of posting a link to the page where people can sign up to become a ABMP sponsor. I am interested in this but because anything to do with Dive Flags has been buried deep within the OUC website, it is not obvious how to sponsor that specific program.
While I think it is great that people can sponsor this and get a couple signs to put up, I am a firm believer that until there is a fundamental change from our government, all the education in the world will only scratch the surface. Too many boaters will feel "put out" or "inconvenienced" by the dive flag and will only resent divers for being there and will rebel by not respecting our safety. If these were LAWS with actual consequences, I am sure more boaters would respect the flag more (I realize you will never get 100%). Hopefully the absence of rules changes. Today there is no implicit instructions to the boater on how to behave around a dive flag (obviously I do not feel "steer clear and drive slow" are imlicit instructions) which makes the wishy washy existing law pretty much useless (nothing more than a way for lawyers to make money at some point).
Please post that link so those who wish to support this can. The issue of Dive Flag Awareness seems to have been put aside (by everybody) and perhaps change can happen if it gets put up front again.
EDIT: Since you are a new member, you can PM me the web address and I can post it (or you can get your post count to past 5 so that you can post the address). Either will work.
While I think it is great that people can sponsor this and get a couple signs to put up, I am a firm believer that until there is a fundamental change from our government, all the education in the world will only scratch the surface. Too many boaters will feel "put out" or "inconvenienced" by the dive flag and will only resent divers for being there and will rebel by not respecting our safety. If these were LAWS with actual consequences, I am sure more boaters would respect the flag more (I realize you will never get 100%). Hopefully the absence of rules changes. Today there is no implicit instructions to the boater on how to behave around a dive flag (obviously I do not feel "steer clear and drive slow" are imlicit instructions) which makes the wishy washy existing law pretty much useless (nothing more than a way for lawyers to make money at some point).
Please post that link so those who wish to support this can. The issue of Dive Flag Awareness seems to have been put aside (by everybody) and perhaps change can happen if it gets put up front again.
EDIT: Since you are a new member, you can PM me the web address and I can post it (or you can get your post count to past 5 so that you can post the address). Either will work.