Anything special needed to dive off your boat?

[bawla47]

Someone told me you were required to have a ladder on your boat, but besides that , just need a dive flag. Is this true? Anything else i might need also? <br /><br /><br />Thanks in advance guys!<br /><br />Jay D<br /><br />ohh, im in FL also, dunno if theres dif rules in dif places.

 

[Darrendude]

Re: Anything special needed to dive off your boat?

make sure you have a wide, long ladder. It can be dificult to get back in the boat loaded down with dive gear.

 

[qaztwo]

Re: Anything special needed to dive off your boat?

A large swim platform is nice, I normally inflat my bc and take it off and throw it on the swim platform then climb up. Here's a web site that list state by state rules for flag size and there are addition links to that states laws reguarding boating and diving.<br />www.dive-flag.com<br /><br />be carefull, not everyone stays away from a dive flag.

 

[Chris1956]

Re: Anything special needed to dive off your boat?

It is also probably smart to have a way(radio,cell) to contact a decompression chamber and an emergency medicine center, and research an evacuation method (heliocopter)to get there, just in case of accident.

 

[cuzner]

Re: Anything special needed to dive off your boat?

Depending on the conditions your diving in.If your in any kind of current invest in a floating dive flag + 100 feet of floating line( a ski line works well).A light you can attatch on your anchor line is a good idea also.Personaly I won't dive from a boat that doesn't have a working vhf radio.too many things can go wrong, and you will not be able to get an injured diver on the boat if there is only 2 of you.I'm jealous though...... 4 months before I'll be able to back in lake erie.<br /><br /> Jim

 

[swist]

Re: Anything special needed to dive off your boat?

make sure you have a wide, long ladder. It can be dificult to get back in the boat loaded down with dive gear.

Amen on this one. Lots of boats come with these "1/2 platforms" with an area of about 2 sq ft - even without gear the so-called ladders will swing under the platform. This setup is a joke - barely adequate for swimming - totally inadequate for diving.

 

[JustMrWill]

Re: Anything special needed to dive off your boat?

I have a full swim platform on my boat but what I do to make it easier is I have a couple of nylon ropes tied off to boat with big spring clips on the ends. First I clip my lobster bag (full - of course) to one rope. I clip the other rope to my bc...inflate it a bit more and remove it...hold on to ladder and remove fins...they get tossed to boat deck. I then can climb up the ladder easily...retrieve the bc when I get onboard.<br /><br />Required by law..well that changes by state...here you need a dive flag on the boat and I believe you have to drag one with you....not sure...if BOTH are required.<br /><br />-JustMrWill

 

[swist]

Re: Anything special needed to dive off your boat?

Required by law..well that changes by state...here you need a dive flag on the boat and I believe you have to drag one with you....not sure...if BOTH are required.

And then all you have to do is teach the large number of boaters who don't know what a dive flag means. Of course these are the same people who also don't know what "no wake zone" written in English means, so it's probably pretty hopeless to get them to recognize a flag.

 

[LTC Birkett]

Re: Anything special needed to dive off your boat?

Deep Water might be nice too...<br /><br />Couldn't resist...