Diving Etiquette

Yesterday whilst taking a group of students through diving equipment cleaning procedure I thought about the etiquette of diving. An open water course will teach all the written rules of diving but what are the unwritten rules? I am not referring to any life threatening errors that people may make but more over the way to behave around other divers in a diving community.


Whilst washing diving equipment there are some important steps to maintain the equipment in correct working order. Soaking the regulators in fresh water for 10 minutes to dissolve any salt, flushing out the BCD bladder with fresh water, drying and storing equipment out of the sunlight, all help to maintain your diving equipment. But what are the rules that help you maintain your diving community? For example washing boots last of all, after everyone else has washed their wetsuit. Not peeing in your wetsuit, or if you do have the decency to wait until last before dipping it in the tub .

Any other ideas for the 'unwritten rules of diving'? I am sure there must be many that seasoned divers take for granted that new divers would be well advised of.

Here are the pictures from this weekend

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