Almost Run Over By a Boat - Spearfishing First Time Seeing this!!!

[Spearfishing Life]

Almost Run Over By a Boat!!!

Those Rental Boats are certainly the biggest danger to us spearos during the summer months!

So after managing to not get run over by a boat, during one of my ambushes, something came at me that i had never seen before!!!

 

[rafav]

Do a boater need a license to rent a boat in Greece? Here in South Florida being run over is my biggest concern, I'm amazed how boaters here have no clue about navigation rules and markers, signs or flags meaning. Not long ago a small boat doing 20+knots passed between me (I aways cary a floater w/ a small dive flag) and my boat (Florida reg dive flag high on bimini top), despite my yelling and waving, I was less than 100 feet away from my boat. This week a spearo out of Key Biscayne went missing, it seems he was using a paddle board and the Coast Guard shared a picture of it somehow deflated, I'm still praying he is safe but I can't not think about a possible run over. Since COVID I'm back at the dock before 11am on weekends, after that the ocean alcoholic levels make things really dangerous here. Any ideas on how to fix this? I thought about fixing information cards or bumper stickers at marinas and boat ramps w/ a divers down flag a "keep 300 feet away" message, but my friends believe its a waste of time and money, thoughts?

 

[Mr. X]

I normally hear rather than see boats coming. Also, always dive with a big orange marker buoy, with the appropriate "Diver Down"-flag (red & white in USA or blue & white alpha-flag in most of the rest of the world*).

*I've used a USA flag in GB - not recommended - but it is not recognised (or even less so than the appropriate Alpha flag), so I bought and fitted a bigger new alpha flag, at least some boaters heed that