What are your biggest pet peeves?

[mlsantos]

I'm a dive cop here where I live.

If I see some douche standing on a coral head (what's left of them) posing for a picture, I will get in his face. If I see him tearing up the soft corals with his fins (as I often do) because of poor trim and buoyancy, I will offer advise (not always well received). If I see him riding a turtle..well let's say that enrages me. I crossed the line once or twice, but now I catch up to them and give them the finger wag.

I've done SCUBA here and in the Keys since the early 70's. The destruction of our reefs by an over abundance of careless divers is very obvious to me. You'll see it as well in your part of the world I suspect in the next decade or so.

As for the turtles, riding them can injure them, can cause them to fear divers and I'm told will cause females to drop their clutches.

Rant off.

Hi Tim,

Everything you talked about is necessary and I scold divers too when faced with actions like that... have even grounded them for a few dives for repeat offenses... those are just things that i think divers should have been taught from the start. Given that we have mostly advanced to extremely experienced divers from the west we dont see much of that though... The people i'm talking about are those that complain about the petty things... like someone being too loud... or someone hogging the tv (which they would've never wanted to watch anyway)... or someone taking too much time photographing a subject... or someone smoking a cigar (duh hes smoking in the smoking area, if you dont like it dont hang out there)... people coming up with less than 500 psi... stuff like that... im talking about the people who walk around the boat and dive the dive sites watching other people and finding faults to tell about... they're really annoying...

 

[DivemasterDennis]

MLSANTOS, you are spot on. I'd like your take on the "Talk Only When and How Appropriate" section of Chapter 3 of the "The Scuba Snobs Guide to Diving Etiquette," which by the way include all or our pet peeves. If you haven't gotten yet, its on amazon and lots of other web sites as a paperback or e-book. I think you'll get a laugh. But you won't agree with all of it.
The Scuba Snobs.

 

[paul madox]

My peeves are reverse drift diving:mooner:

 

[findingbode]

Divers that approach you at a local spot, read you their entire dive log trying to impress you, explain to you how there is better diving elsewhere, than repeatedly ask (or beg) you to escort them to the wrecks. If you do not assist them, you get bad mouthed at the local dive store........so annoying......

 

[TSandM]

I think I've decided my biggest peeve is dive gear that decides it doesn't want to go diving, but not until you have arrived at the dive site without a spare of whatever it is.

The other day, I had a light battery, a heater battery/canister, two deco regs AND my computer go down on the same day. THAT's a peeve!

 

[vladimir]

Divers that approach you at a local spot, read you their entire dive log trying to impress you, explain to you how there is better diving elsewhere, than repeatedly ask (or beg) you to escort them to the wrecks. If you do not assist them, you get bad mouthed at the local dive store........so annoying......

I guess you'd have to be pretty annoyed to join Scubaboard and dig up this year-old thread just to vent. I hope that guy with the dive log is here to read about himself.

Oh yeah, welcome to Scubaboard.

 

[Hank49]

I think I've decided my biggest peeve is dive gear that decides it doesn't want to go diving, but not until you have arrived at the dive site without a spare of whatever it is.

The other day, I had a light battery, a heater battery/canister, two deco regs AND my computer go down on the same day. THAT's a peeve!

Two REGS !?? That's some serious bad luck. I don't think I'd dive for a month or so until that bad juju passes.

 

[jaycanwk]

Not a pet peeve per say, rather an amuzing annoyance sometimes.

I'm just a regular diver with AOW, that stays within NDL's and above 130ft, but I dive a singles rig with a 5ft hose and a BP/w, and sometimes sling a pony.

Quite often there will be either a DM or insturctor, a shop owner, or another diver that will insist I'm diving and "techinical" or "Advanced" setup lol

 

[diverdoug1]

"Wow that is a beutiful underwater photograph, YOU MUST HAVE A REALLY GOOD CAMERA"

or

Noob divers saying that U/W photographers are the worst divers. Then later, while I am taking shot, perfectly hovering in an inverted position so don't mug the reef, the same noob comes along, kicking up silt off the bottom.

or

Divers who have so little going for themselves in the rest of their life, get all their self worth by trying to tell everyone what great divers they are. Especially the ones that try to tell other divers what to do (usually the divers being lectured have more experience and are better divers than the braggart).

 

[Scuba Mom of Two]

... people who think they have the right to decide what's "best" for someone else's kids ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

You got that right, Bob!

Until I ask the OP to buddy with my kids (who, by the way, are excellent divers) he has no right to say whether or not they participate in the sport.

I always, ALWAYS, hire a dive professional to buddy with my kids. This way they don't have Mom or Dad hovering, doing for them, etc., etc. They enjoy the dive more; I enjoy the dive more; they become better divers with each dive completed.

Now, to my pet peeve: people putting their CRAP in my space. I cannot set up my gear or don it if your fins and mask are sitting on the bench in front of them. MOVE IT!!