New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE
Chapter 5 - STATE PARKS AND RECREATION
Part 2 - PARK VISITOR PROVISIONS
Section 19.5.2.19 - SKIN OR SCUBA DIVING
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. Skin or scuba diving is at the diver's own risk and is prohibited within 150 feet of marinas, fishing piers, docks, ramps or dams except for official activities and in other areas the superintendent designates. Skin or scuba diving may be subject to more stringent laws or rules or regulations of a landowner (e.g. United States department of the interior, bureau of reclamation) from which the division leases the land or reservoir.
B. The division permits scuba diving only in groups of two or more divers. An additional scuba diver or competent diver-tender shall remain above water at all times.
C. Equipment such as tanks, weight belts, etc. shall be equipped with quick-release fasteners.
D. Scuba divers shall be equipped with a buoyancy compensator. Scuba divers shall only use self-inflated, air supplied canister, or tank inflated, direct connection to the tank supplied air.
E. Divers shall use a diver's flag to mark the point of submergence. Divers shall fly the diver's flag from a boat or flotation device while diving. The flag shall be red with a white diagonal stripe running from the upper left corner to the lower right corner.
F. Boats or vessels shall stay at least 150 feet away from a diver's flag and shall exercise special care in the diver's flags' vicinity.
