It's called Obstructing Navigation....
Had you called the MPs they would have closed off the entire area and waited for the divers to run out of air. Once the divers were safely out of the water they would have written them up for obstructing navigation…
Well, not really, they most likely would have just sat them on the back of the boat and endeared with a lengthy lecture about them being a hair’s breath from doing hard time for this infraction of the law. I know, I’ve heard it on more than one occasion. However, I got to say that only the Mexican Federalizes knows how to really put the fear of God in you. These MPs on the lake are like your eighth grade teacher busting you for running in the hallways.
The last time I endured this lecture, I pressed the lake MPs to write the summons so we could actually test this in a court of law, but he declined and ranted on for a few more minuets before cutting us louse to go chase down someone who zoom past us to close. I think they would rather use it for tool to imitate people and not louse it all together.
If I need to dive in high traffic areas, always do it at sun up or I dive without a flag and surface only near the dive boat… On more than one occasion I have parked my flag in some obscure place while I explore another area. This works for me because I have honed my underwater navigation skills to get me where I need to be and back. My dive buddies on the other hand, are lost as soon as they put their faces in the water and have to keep surfacing to see where they are.
It’s too bad a few can put a bad name to so many good ones…. What this lake needs; is a few good Mexicans Federalizes to patrol our waters for the summer… It certainly would be interesting to say the least.
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