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    The Scuba Snobs' Guide to Diving Etiquette: -------
    The Scuba Snobs' Guide to Diving Etiquette: -------
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    The Scuba Snobs' Guide to Diving Etiquette: -------

    By Debbie and Dennis Jacobson

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    The Scuba Snobs Guide to Diving Etiquette is filled with humorous to hilarious stories illustrating the need for rules of etiquette for scuba divers, above and below the water. The tips for divers are spot on, the stories entertaining, and the net result is a delightful little read that anyone, not only divers, can enjoy. From packing to puking, swim wear to story telling, boats to buoyancy, the authors stories and rules illuminate every facet of diving and dive travel. This book is fresh, insightful, entertaining and not too long. And it is, in fact "Seriously Funny! and Mostly True!"
    just like the cover says.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJun 3, 2011
    ISBN9781463403461
    The Scuba Snobs' Guide to Diving Etiquette: -------
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    Debbie

    Between them the authors have over 22 years of recreational diving experience, including hundreds of dives in the Caribbean, pacific, and for Dennis, fresh water venues. Dennis has held the professional rating of Divemaster since 2000. Debbie is a former English and journalism teacher who, when not travelling to dive or writing, now works in and manages Dennis’ law office. Dennis practices law and works part time out of our favorite dive center, Underwater Phantaseas of Lakewood, Colorado. Someday Dennis and Debbies hope to be full time Scuba Snobs, or scuba bums, or just retire near warm saltwater dive sites. They are, as of publication date, still in their 50’s. That may or may not be true as of the purchase date. Learn more about them in Chapter 1 of The Scuba Snobs Guide to Diving Etiquette. They really are nice people. Ok, Debbie is a nice person. Dennis is kind of nice. Sometimes.

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      The Scuba Snobs' Guide to Diving Etiquette - Debbie

      The Scuba Snobs' Guide to Diving Etiquette

      Debbie and Dennis Jacobson

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      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      ©2011 Debbie and Dennis Jacobson. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 5/31/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-0347-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-0346-1 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011908248

      Printed in the United States of America

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Scuba Snobs is a Registered trademark of Dennis J. Jacobson

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      How We Became Known As The Scuba Snobs

      Chapter 2

      Qualifications To Be A Scuba Snob

      Chapter 3

      Rules Of Etiquette On The Day Boat

      Chapter 4

      Liveaboard Rules Of Etiquette

      Chapter 5

      Dress Code

      Chapter 6

      Underwater Etiquette

      Chapter 7

      Special Rules of Etiquette for Night Diving

      Chapter 8

      Punctuality- the Ultimate Expression

      of Good Manners

      Chapter 9

      Après Dive Rules

      Chapter 10

      Dive Talking

      Chapter 11

      Apology

      Chapter 12

      Take the Scuba Snobs Quiz

      Chapter 1

      How We Became Known As The Scuba Snobs

      Debbie has been a certified diver since 2002, and has over 150 ocean dives. Dennis was certified in 1998, earned his professional dive master credential in 2000, and has over 500 dives, of which two thirds are ocean dives. We both love diving, and we love meeting divers. We are active divers, averaging at least two dive destination trips per year. Dennis gets another thirty to forty dives per year while training and instructing in local reservoirs. We both make it a point to mark a little pool time before dive trips if we have been out of the water more than ninety days.

      Our daughter does not dive (yet) but has heard us talk of dive trips and been with us on some. A few years ago after hearing one of the stories in this book she looked at us and said, You guys are really Scuba Snobs. She was right. We are not only avid divers who love everything about diving, but we have worked hard to acquire and maintain those skills that competent divers exhibit. What makes us Scuba Snobs is not that we have those skills and habits as active divers. What makes us Scuba Snobs is that we expect other divers to have them too. When we find ourselves diving with those who don’t, we have a tendency to talk about them, and not in a good way.

      New divers are usually a delight on a dive. They have retained the skills they were taught, they are likely to practice what they were taught, and they seldom overestimate their own skills (though it happens). Active divers, who themselves may qualify as Scuba Snobs are also appropriate on dives (usually). Unfortunately there are a whole lot of divers out there who have either (a) never learned good diving habits, or (b) forgotten them somewhere along the line, or (c) are just plain jerks. As a favor to them, but mostly to the divers who do know how to behave above and below the water, we offer this handy guide.

      We hope you will have a good laugh and be amused, but we also hope you (or the person you’ve really bought this book for) will be a better diver and dive companion for having read it. Good manners are always appropriate, regardless of a diver’s skill level.

      This book is for recreational divers. It presents our rules of etiquette for recreational diving. It is not about commercial diving or technical diving. Being a commercial diver or technical diver doesn’t qualify you to be a Scuba Snob. You might qualify, but not because of some certificate or license. Scuba Snobs can be those with only a basic open water certification, or they can be divers with professional

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