Underwater view often gives very amazing and breathtaking to the divers. The reef, coral, marine life is natural view that you can see during your diving. Some Asia countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia are having excellent underwater view.
However underwater conditions may vary significantly from one region or even site to another. Seasonal changes can significantly alter any site and dive conditions. This differences influence the way divers dress for a dive and what diving technique they use.
Before you go to dive or snorkeling, you have to prepare equipment for diving or snorkeling. Although you can hire those equipments, but many divers prefer to bring their own equipments, like mask, snorkel and fins. But before you dive, please follow the guidelines to ensure a safe diving.
Pre-dive guidelines.
- You should posses a current diving certification card from a recognized scuba diving instructional agency; this is if you are scuba diving.
- Make sure that you are healthy, physical and emotional should be fit before you go diving. Do exercise, like as stretching, walking, just to make your body relax and feel comfortable before you go diving.
- Learn the local regulation about undersea life and environments in your dive-area, like as fish, extinct species, reef, which protected by local law.
- You should consult to professional dive master regarding condition, environments, who exactly known the dive-area for your safety.
Tips for good and responsible diving.
- You should not touch any marine life, even you would like to. Avoid any contact to those species with your body, some species could have poison. Remember Aussie guy who just got poison during his diving, and then not survive.
- You should control your movement, major accident could be happened by divers descending too fast then colliding with the reef. Check your weight belt positioned correctly, so that you always stay horizontal. Actually if you haven’t dived for so long, you should practice on a pool before you go diving. Initially you may experience difficulty to breathe, but few days later you will breathe easily.
- You should not use anchors on the reef, and don’t ground your boats on the coral. If there are no moorings on those dive-areas, you may ask dive operator to provide permanent moorings on dive-areas.
- You should not feed the animal or marines life, because could disturb their habit and health. Let them free, don’t feed, don’t touch, and just watch as this will keep their habitat. Even you would like to ride on turtle, please leave them alone, because if you ride on them, could cause them anxiety, and could disturb their health.
- You should not collect or buy any corals or shells for your souvenirs, because this could damage the ecology site and depletes the beauty of the sites. Please respect the integrity of sites, actually many sites protected by law. If you would like to have souvenirs about that site, buy human made souvenirs only.
- You should take back all your rubbish, even any litter that you may find on the sites. Especially plastics are big problem to marines life, turtle sometimes sees plastic like a jellyfish then they eat it. This could danger their health.
