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Words of Advice for Divers and Dive-Curious People

SCUBA diving is a wonderful hobby that people routinely safely enjoy with the proper training, conditioning, and application of common sense. The choice on whether you should be diving at a particular dive site at a particular time depends on many factors including but not limited to: 1) your skill level, 2) your current physical condition, 3) your equipment, 4) environmental and site conditions, 5) and other factors not listed. You must make your own judgment about the diveability of any particular site or situation. No one else should or can make that determination for you. You can use references such as SCUBA websites (such as this one), SCUBA magazines, local dive shops, dive professionals hired to guide you at a specific site, dive buddies and SCUBA friends, and other resources but you remain ultimately responsible for your own safety. This is the nature of SCUBA diving. You and only you must decide if it is safe for you to don your gear and enter the water. Only when you have total confidence in your decision to enter the water and dive safely should you go forward and proceed with your SCUBA diving endeavors.

SCUBA diving is a real joy and pleasure for us and if you are reading this, no doubt you also love to go diving. It is a fun hobby that can enrich your life and bring you closer to the natural world. Please dive responsibly.

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OregonDiveSites.com has endeavored to provide the most accurate information on diving sites reasonably available to it. However, OregonDiveSites.com’s presentation of this information does not constitute a representation, promise, or guarantee that the depicted diving sites and related information will be as they appear nor as they are described herein. OregonDiveSites.com cannot and will not be held responsible for any errors, omissions, or changes in the information contained herein. In no event shall OregonDiveSites.com be held liable or legally accountable for the contents of information stored in or transmitted from this site, nor for any events occurring or caused by your reliance on or use of information stored in or transmitted from this site. The entire risk of acting on information obtained from this site, including the risk of any and all property losses, personal injuries or deaths, detriments, economic losses, costs and damages of any kind are risks that are borne by those who choose to act on such information and not by OregonDiveSites.com.

There is always a risk that natural or human events may cause the diving sites, access routes, and other oceanic, aquatic, terrestrial, and other conditions to change from the conditions depicted and described herein. Users of OregonDiveSites.com are encouraged to call locally knowledgeable persons at contemplated diving sites before any trip in order to determine the extent of any changes in these conditions. It is prudent to purchase short-term travel, cancellation and accident insurance. You should discuss insurance with your insurance and travel agents.

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Summary

As one of our friends once said:

Don’t be an idiot in the park.

It’s your responsibility to be safe when diving.  Don’t trust us or rely on OregonDiveSites.com.  We aren’t your babysitter and cannot be held responsible for you doing anything or not doing anything.  If you get yourself or others hurt or killed, or you lose money, it’s your own fault.