Scuba Club DM Busted

[mcohen1021]

You know if we wanted to go to a "show" we could go to a zoo or an aquarium. Personally, I dive to enjoy the underwater world as naturally as possible.

Seriously... If I could strangle someone, this guy and his customers would top my list.

Corales Vivos Cozumel

 

[jlyle]

The dive guide shown and the person harassing the toad fish are not the same person.

 

[tridacna]

Which DM is that? I've dived with them many times and have never seen that kind of behavior.

 

[kelemvor]

The dive guide shown and the person harassing the toad fish are not the same person.

I agree, the guy on the boat is quite a bit bigger than the guide shown underwater.

 

[formernuke]

Can someone put this into better context? Are is the tool described? Etc

 

[kelemvor]

Can someone put this into better context? Are is the tool described? Etc

Google "tickle stick". It's a rod about 12" long with a handle and a wrist strap. DM's use them to point stuff out and to bang on tanks. Apparently lobster gitters use them to coax lobsters out of holes, too.

 

[mcohen1021]

IDK, that is all I read... I wasn't sure if anyone else had heard of this.

i'd kill to experience the 1990 cozumel I fell in love with again

 

[tridacna]

It’s a muck stick - not a tickle stick. Tickle stick usually has a bent tip. Muck stick is used to anchor yourself in the sand.

 

[Perryed]

Read the comments on the link. NOT the dive guide. Scuba Club wouldn`t put up with that crap. Once a guy posted a pic after a dive guide teased a Splendid Toadfish out of his hidey hole and posted it on Facebook. Scuba Club found out about it and the DM got a royal chewing out. Almost fired. These are good jobs on Cozumel and no DM is going to jeopardize that for a photo op.

 

[Mike Walker]

There seems to be some link to this conversation with the later photos:

Possible southern reef closure

That Facebook post does seem to point the finger in the wrong direction if you just glance at the images.... and don't speak Spanish.