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I'm professional diver with a AOW license to dive. I was planning on going here to dive and have a stamp (those who have a license will know this). When I arrived I was shocked and confused because they wouldn't allow me to dive because I'm deaf and they need to communicate underwater by talking? I'm really confused by this part because you use sign language underwater and they assumed that this will be the issue. In all the places that I dived around the world, I didn't had any problems with buddies. On Contrary, everything was perfect and there was no communication issues whatsoever. In this place, however, this was an issue because for some reason they cannot use sign language underwater and they're communicating by other means, maybe ultrasounds like whales, I don't know? :D
On serious note, Imagine you have a person who wants to dive but who doesn't speak English, Spanish, German or whatever language you can imagine. Would you also not allow him to dive because you can't communicate with him? Sign language is also a foreign language, why was I treated as a disabled person if it's only a language barrier that can be easily conquered? - via 