In Reply to: The regs don't say "a reasonable distance" posted by Chuck Tribolet on July 18, 2005 at 23:17:41:

The only thing that is clear in this reg is that it is illegal to have your dive flag up if you aren't diving. How many of us take their flag down immediately after diving? The law is totally useless for divers. The best we can do is still fly our flags in the hope that most boaters will respect them and learn good navigation skills so you can go down and come up via your anchor line. Also listen and stay down if you hear a boat. When surfacing, stick your pole spear up first if you have one. Free divers are very hard to see and they stray away from their boat on the surface. They should tow a float with a dive flag on it. I came very close to a free diver the other day because he was over 1000 ft from his boat and was not towing a dive flag. I noticed his head in the water and at first I thought is was a sea lion.

Our law should be more like Florida which nequires a dive flag and requires boaters to stay away. With the over abundance of regs in California, it escapes me why our dive flag law is so lame.

• Re: Re: The regs don't say "a reasonable distance" Sumit 16:17:53 07/19/05 (0)
• You want to be required to tow a float through kelp? Chuck Tribolet 15:04:37 07/19/05 (2)
  • How about this one lobsterdon 21:57:14 07/20/05 (1)
    • It still isn't going to tow through a kelp bed. Chuck Tribolet 12:52:43 07/21/05 (0)
• can you say "boating lobby" Chris 10:44:17 07/19/05 (4)
  • Grey Davis vetoed a law to require a boating safetly course. Chuck Tribolet 15:06:23 07/19/05 (0)
  • Re: can you say "boating lobby" lobsterdon 13:39:03 07/19/05 (2)
    • The flipping regs need to change Elaine 14:18:48 07/19/05 (1)
      • Re: The flipping regs need to change lobsterdon 22:10:17 07/20/05 (0)