Scuba diving fish signs guide

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Scuba diving fish signs guide

Deprived of speech underwater, we have to rely on a series of gestures and signs to communicate! Whereas the official safety signs are quite universal, divers can become quite creative when it comes to signs for fish identification! I have come across a lot of variances within South East Asia, at each dive briefing fish signs can be introduced. Sometimes, the dive master can invent for you a sign that will be only for this particular dive as he wants to show you something specific!

Since memory can fail us as we keep on getting new diving knowledge, I have started my own small collection of doodles about fish signs! I don’t recall ever seeing one in any of the dive centers I have spent time.

With these doodles, I have created images, a PDF guide and a memory card games that can be downloaded below.

Scuba diving fish sign images:

Barracuda scuba diving fish signs — Barracuda

Box fish scuba diving fish signs — Box fish

Crocodile fish scuba diving fish signs — Crocodile fish

Cuttlefish and squid scuba diving fish signs — Cuttlefish & squid

Leaf fish scuba diving fish signs — Leaf fish

Lion fish scuba diving fish signs — Lion fish

Moray eel scuba diving fish signs — Moray eel

nudibranch scuba diving fish signs — Nudibranch

Pipefish scuba diving fish signs — Pipefish

shrimp or crab scuba diving fish signs — Crab or Shrimp

trigger fish scuba diving fish signs — Trigger fish

turtles scuba diving fish signs — Turtle

Blue spotted stingray scuba diving fish signs — Blue spotted Stingray

Napolean or bumphead parrot fish scuba diving fish signs — Napoleon wrasse or Bumphead parrot fish

Lobster fish scuba diving fish signs — Lobster

Grouper fish scuba diving fish signs — Grouper

Hammerhead shark fish scuba diving fish signs — Hammerhead shark

I spend some time creating and drawing these – they are free to use following Creative Commons, share alike, non-commercial use and I would like to be credited for the work if you share it or modify it. You must credit a link to my website (https://thattravelitch.com/en). Thank you !

So without further due - Here you go ! Ready to use tools and nice new graphics made by yours truly, to play and learn together!

The ready-to-print scuba diving fish signs guide

This is PDF is two pages and can be printed both sided – I would recommend on a thicker paper. Then laminate it so it can sit with your fish Identification books.

Download the PDF here

The scuba diving fish signs card game

Whether it’s at home freshening up our knowledge or after a dive with a good fresh beer in hand, why not playing some simple and silly memory games ?

These are ready to print in square format. Print them double-sided on a relatively thick paper, take a trip back to childhood and cut them nicely following the grey lines. Finally, to make them durable, laminate them. You could even go further and add a little round hole with an eyelet and a string so they can be attached together!

Download the PDF here

More scuba diving fish signs ?

I am always game for more ! My knowledge is not infinite and if you want to see one new fish sign that I have not yet drawn added to these pages and card game, please send me an email !

In the email you would ideally share:

The name of the fish
A photo or short video of the sign that needs to be drawn
If you have a real nice underwater photo of the fish that I can use to illustrate the doodle? That would be helpful. This photo would need to be accompanied with the credit name & link and the copyright mention if any. For the active links, I do add interactive link in the PDF only as it’s where I use the fish photos or if I share it on my instagram, then I can mention your handle (if any) in the post.

If an email is not convenient – send me a PM on facebook messenger so we can exchange further or even hit me up on Instagram to start discussing!

I hope you will have fun with these new pictures – I enjoyed making them !