Basic Scuba Diving Pointers

There are a few things a diver should always take into consideration when descending into the underwater world. Here is some basic etiquette which should be followed when diving.

• Wearing scuba diving gloves does not give one license to touch anything. It is as easy to be stung through them and essential to respect fragile aquatic organisms.

• Your diving knife is for cutting loose netting in wrecks and the like, expressly not for harming anything in the marine kingdom.

• Some aquatic life is extremely fragile and certain can be very dangerous, it’s best to avoid environmental contact for your own and the benefit of the organisms. Nothing underwater will attack you unless it’s provoked or if you have entered into the realm of its reproductive cycle and its trying to protect its young.

• The silt and bottom composition of the ocean is more susceptible to your movement than you think, one can never be too cautious so as not to disturb the sediment. Make sure you are streamlined with your buoyancy as well as neatly tucked away equipment.

• Make sure you are constantly streamlined and that all your equipment and regulators, SPG’s etc are neatly ticked away and don’t drag on the bottom disturbing the silt or the marine life. Buoyancy remains a key.

Remember that in the ocean, you are the guest and as such should behave appropriately.

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