Following these simple guidelines won't water down your fun.
To assist our visitors, we have compiled a short list of recommendations that will help to keep you within the bounds of the laws, while helping us in our management efforts.
• Don't touch living corals when swimming, snorkeling, or scuba diving. The lightest touch of a finger, fin, dangling hose, camera, or of sand stirred up can cause damage.
• Don't reap corals from the sea or buy black or white coral jewellery or other coral products. It is illegal to take or possess black or white corals in Jamaica.
• Leave in place all plants, corals, animals, fish and shells whether they are alive or not. An empty shell will soon become the home of a crab or small fish.
• When snorkeling or scuba-diving, view fish but do not feed them: indiscriminate feeding destroys their natural eating habits.
• Watch out for swimmers, snorkelers, and scuba-divers when operating a boat and stay at least 100 metres from the red and white diver's flag when it is displayed on a float or boat.
• Tie up boats to mooring buoys so that anchor chains do not touch, damage or crush the corals, sea grass & mud. Anchor use in non-designated areas is illegal.
• Do not use plastic and Styrofoam containers. They are not biodegradable and they litter the sea floor and kill marine animals.
• Dispose of all waste properly, whether on land or at sea.
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