EireDiver606
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If you aren’t inclined to touch the reef, and they still won’t let you wear your gloves, stow them in your pocket, put them on underwater and take them off before ascending
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My preference is for 3M Comfort Grip work gloves. Very thin, excellent dexterity, very 'grippy' on wet metal and skin tight.
These give an excellent grip on metal boltsnaps (I dive tech and sidemount),when climbing boat ladders etc... They also protect from skin abrasion, cuts and stings... all of which can happen without going anywhere near coral. When fingers get water-soaked and wrinkled they easily get damaged... and that can lead to infections etc.
If you aren’t inclined to touch the reef, and they still won’t let you wear your gloves, stow them in your pocket, put them on underwater and take them off before ascending
Because of stings and other things in tropical (or any) waters, I think the majority would disagree and vote in favour of gloves.Most of the dive sites in SE Asia do not allow gloves. That is not to say that everyone abides by it and I still see some ppl with gloves during my dives.
There is really no point wearing gloves in tropical waters.