- Don't touch anything under water - also not animals they look harmless
to you. Don't think that sea animals like your touch - that's naive wishful
thinking and has nothing to do with reality. They are no pets and not used
to get touched. Even if sea animals seem to like your touch, you destroy
with your hands the thin layer on their skin which is protecting them from
parasites.
- Never forget that corals are living animals as well even if they look
like plants or stones.
- Don't take anything out of the water, even if it seems to be dead - it
belongs to the sea.
- Don't throw anything in the water that doesn't belong in it - the sea
is no trash can. For example cigarette filters are extremely toxic and can
get swallowed by fish - they don't survive that!
- When your diving place your equipment in a way that you don't touch anything
inadvertently.
- Practise neutral buoyancy so you can easily hover in the water and do
not have to hold on or to touch anything unnecessarily.
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- Don't buy any gifts like shells, corals, tortoiseshell, pufferfish, shark
jaws, jewellery with shells or other products made out of sea animals.
- Don't collect shells on the beach and leave them where they belong to.
Also hermit crabs grow and have to search now and then for a new home or
in other words for a bigger shell.
- Don't throw any trash on the beach - please put these things in the trash
can and regular waste disposals.
- Only eat or buy fish, when you know that it had been caught in an appropriate
way. By fishing with driftnets a lot of fish get caught but only some will
be sold and a lot will be left dead in the sea. Also reefs get damaged by
certain kinds of fishing. So when you're not sure, keep away from it. Or
even better, don't eat anything at all anymore that comes out of the sea.
- Support different organizations who do activities to protect the underwater
world - they are dependent on any help.
- Share your knowledge with others - many people do not suspect at all
that they do harm to the underwater world with their behaviour.
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