2006 Code of Virginia § 29.1-734.1 - Skin and scuba divers

29.1-734.1. Skin and scuba divers.

A. No person shall engage in skin diving or scuba diving from a boat in thewaters of this Commonwealth which are open to boating, or assist in suchdiving, without displaying a diver's flag from a mast, buoy, or otherstructure at the place of diving; and no person shall display such flagexcept when diving operations are under way or in preparation or display adiver's flag in a location which will unreasonably obstruct vessels frommaking legitimate navigational use of the water.

B. The diver's flag shall be square, not less than twelve inches on a side,and shall be of red background with a diagonal white stripe, of a width equalto one fifth of the flag's height, running from the upper corner adjacent tothe mast downward to the opposite outside corner.

C. No operator of a vessel under way in the waters of this Commonwealth shallpermit such vessel to approach closer than twenty-five yards to any structurefrom which a diver's flag is then being displayed.

(1987, c. 488.)