{"id":29,"date":"2026-09-25T12:13:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scuba-diving-pro\/2026\/09\/25\/a-divers-guide-to-reef-etiquette\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T12:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:13:56","slug":"a-divers-guide-to-reef-etiquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scuba-diving-pro\/2026\/09\/25\/a-divers-guide-to-reef-etiquette\/","title":{"rendered":"A Diver&#8217;s Guide to Reef Etiquette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A healthy reef is the reason we all dive. A few simple habits keep it that way for the next diver \u2014 and the next generation.<\/p>\n<h2>Master your buoyancy first<\/h2>\n<p>Most reef damage is accidental: a fin kick, a knee on the sand, a dangling gauge. Good buoyancy and a streamlined setup prevent almost all of it.<\/p>\n<h2>Look, do not touch<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Coral polyps are living animals and a single touch can damage them<\/li>\n<li>Keep at least a metre from the reef and from marine life<\/li>\n<li>Never chase, ride or feed turtles and fish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Photograph responsibly<\/h2>\n<p>Frame your shot from a distance, never rest on the reef to steady yourself, and switch off strobes around sensitive animals like seahorses.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Take only pictures, leave only bubbles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buoyancy, distance and why you should never touch coral, even for a photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,14,13],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-life","tag-buoyancy","tag-conservation","tag-reef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scuba-diving-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scuba-diving-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scuba-diving-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scuba-diving-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scuba-diving-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scuba-diving-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scuba-diving-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scuba-diving-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scuba-diving-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scuba-diving-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}