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Fun & Safety Signing Student Manual www.SeaSigns.com [email protected] Copyright SeaSigns, LLC 2013

Understanding Hand Shapes

Finger Names

Hand Shapes Basics

Hand shapes that are only hand shapes

Hand shapes that are also letters and/or numbers

When describing how to make a sign most ASL references use terms like index or ring finger which may beconfusing to a person from a culture that does not use the same terms. To avoid that confusion SeaSigns optedto use the simple system shown to the right. Finger Names are often used along with the hand shapes todescribe an action needed to make a sign.

This manual shows ONLY the hand shapes used to make other signs or to indicate subgroupings within groupingsof organisms or objects. All the large hand shape drawings are shown from a READERS viewpoint. A smalldrawings near a main drawing in a finer line width show details of how to make the sign from the signer’s view-point. This is because exactly how to make the sign may not be obvious from the reader’s perspective.

When hand shapes are only hand shapes their orientation in a drawing is not important. What is important is that you see all the characteristics of thehand shape. We have chosen to use what we feel is the most easily understandable name for a hand shape that we could find.

When hand shapes are used as letters and numbers their orientation is important. This manual shows letter and number hand shapes in the orientationmost easily read under water.

Hand Shapes Only

Bent Claw Flat O ( )Closed AndFlat Object

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Standard Edition Diver’s ManualFun & Safety Signing and Safety Signing Diver

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Letter and/or number hand shapes

Letter and/or sign hand shapes

Some hand shapes may be letters, numbers, or letters AND numbers in addition to being hand shapes used in making other signs. Certain letter-number combinations, which may be distinguishable at close range above water, are not distinguishable under water due to distance or visibilityissues. These signs include D & 1, F & 9, O & 0, V & 2, and W & 6. For the purposes of SeaSigns therefore we consider them as one shape. Theirmeaning must be implied from context just as people distinguish two, to, and too in spoken English.

In rare instances for the same reasons a hand shape may stand for a letter and a sign like as with letters and numbers. G & small are the only com-bination we use although we mention X and question..



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V & 2 Five

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X & ? Y

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Importance of signing exactly as described

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* Make EXACTLY as described. Making the sign in another manner may have a meaning which you do not intend.* Do NOT shake the sign trying to emphsize it when using the letter and number signs as letters or numbers for 2 reasons:

- The letters or number may mean something different than you intended (see blue, green, and yellow).- Even if the shaken letter or number does not mean anything different, it still makes the sign difficult to to read.

Additional information about the sign = Additional information about how NOT to make the sign & why

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Wow 1. Hold your right your right flat hand bent atyour wrist over your shoulder.

2.like you are EXCITED!

VIGOROUSLY rotate your hand & open youreyes wide

Look

1. Hold FLAT O hands upraised & PALMSFACING.

2. Touch fingertips to thumbs twice.Be sure reader can see SPACE BETWEENyour thumb & fingers as you sign.

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Request: Tell buddy "Wow, look at the lobster."Signed: Wow, look, lobster.

Lobster

Word & Sign Action Written Memory AidVisual Memory AidDetailed Written Description

A lobster opening & closing his clawswith the claws held so the spacesbetween claw sections are visible to thescared little snail.

A male fish expressing AMAZEMENTat a female fish’s doodily whoppers.

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1. Hold your right 2-hand palm down, with fingersSPREAD and pointed OUT near your eyes.

2. Move your hand in the direction to look.TILT your hand as needed to make it easy foryour buddy to read the sign.Pointing to eyes is an ASL sign for SEE.Pointing to eyes & pointing out is an ASL signfor GLANCE.

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A male snail bugging his eyes outogling in the direction of a curveyfemale snail.

Some Lobster typesClawed = C Spiny = SFurry = F Slipper = SLReef = R

(For more on doodily whoppers see thesarcastic fringehead section in icthyo-logist Milton Love’s“Probably Morethan You Want to Know about Fishes ofthe Pacific Coast.”)

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I, me, my Point to yourself by LAYING your-hand AGAINST your chest from

1. The bottom as women often do given theirshape.

2 Or from the side as men usually do.Do NOT point straight at yourself as it isdifficut to interpret from many angles.If diver uses L hand instead of 1-hand to makesign ask if he is saying he is a loser. (Not realmeaning but makes diver aware of hand shape.)

WHOLEeither direction:1

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Photograph,camera

1. Pretend to hold a SMALL camera in front ofyour face.

2. Pretend to press an imaginary shutter buttonwith your RIGHT 2nd finger ONLY.I HOLD your MASK to keep yourother fingers motionless.

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You, your Point the 2nd finger of your right 1-hand towardthe RIGHT side of the person with whom you arecommunicating

Do NOT point your finger DIRECTLY AT thereader. This makes the sign DIFFICULT forthat person to read.

Request: Tell buddy you will photograph him and the lobster.Signed: I photograph you, lobster.

Indicating yourself to fish by pointingto yourself by laying your 1-hand onyour chest with your 2nd finger pointingto you sternum.

The mystery hand pointing at a startledangler fish who is sure he did not dowhatever the mystery hand is accusinghim of.

An adult octopus holding a camera infront of its face and pressing the shutterbutton to take a picture of a wigglingbaby octopus which he is holding stillat the same time.

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Beautiful 1. Hold your right FLAT O hand with fingertipsUP UNDER your chin.

2 CIRCLEyour face.

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SPREAD your fingers into 5-hand &

Hold your right FLAT O hand with fingertipsUP UNDER your chin

1. Hold your right forearm at a 45 degree angle toyour body.

2. Hold your right B hand with palm left.3. Tilt your hand backward at your wrist.4. Rotate your hand back & forth like a queen

waving in a parade.

Blue

1. Hold your right FLAT hand with yourTHUMB RAISED & palm in.

2. Move your WHOLE right ARM forward in awavy motion at about a 45 degree angle infront of your body.Remember to keep your THUMB RAISEDfor ease of reading the sign.Do NOT wiggle your fingersor wrist. Thatmakes the fish appear to be swimmingBACKWARDS!

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Fish

Request: Tell buddy to look at the beautiful blue fish.Signed: Look, beautiful blue fish.

A nudibranch holds it gills close to itsbody to climb up handle of hand mirror.Then it flares its gills as it crawlsaround the mirror to see how beautifulit is. Then it holds its gills close to itsbody to climb down the mirror’s handle.

A fish trying to copy the mystery B handrotating to shake B for blue.

A fish with

swimming forward in a wavy motion.

its dorsal fin raised copyingthe mystery hand copying the fish

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Some Fish types*

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See the signs for Shark & Ray inthis classBecause of the number of fish typesand their distribution please see ourNaturalist courses coming soon.




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Shark 1. Hold your right FLAT hand with your fingerspointing UP.

2. Move your arm forward in a large side-to-sidewavy motion at about a 45 degree angle acrossthe front of your body.Do NOT put your Flat hand to your foreheadwith

mistaken for,or mean BASTARD.

your fingers pointing up. Depending onhow you make the sign it can be

1. Hold each BENT hand about a foot in front ofits side of your body.

2. Bring your hands together at about a 45 degreeangle keeping your thumbs raised.

Do NOT move your hands directly together.The sign is difficult to read underwater whenmade in this way.

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Sponge 1. Hold your right FLAT hand, palm up in frontof your body.

2. Close your hand into an S shape, as if you weresqueezing a sponge.If the reader is lower in the water than you are,hold your arm to your side before making thissign.

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Request: Tell buddy there is a shark near the sponge.Signed: Shark near sponge.

A mystery hand from nowhere squeezinga rather disconcerted sponge.

Two fish with their dorsal fins raisedcuddling up near each other at an angle.

A shark swimming in a wavy motionwith his dorsal fin cutting the water’ssurface scaring a little fish.

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Some Sponge typesBall = BEncrusting = ERope = RTube = TVase or barrel = V


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Some Shark typesAngel = ABullhead = BHCarpet = CPCat = CTCow = CW

Nurse = NRequim = RSmoothhound = SHSandtiger = STWobbegong = WB

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In 1. Thrust your right FLAT O hand into your leftC hand.

2. Hold the position for a second or two.3. Drop your hands to your sides.

At the SIDE of your body touch the finger tips &thumb tips of BOTH your C hands at a 45 degreeangle.

DO make this sign at the SIDE of your bodyto avoid any chance of misinterpretation.Do NOT use the hole sign found in many oldersigning books so as not to offend anyone.

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Hole

1. Hold both of your hands in the C shape.2. Bring your RIGHT C hand UP through your

left C hand a SHORT distance.3. Pull your right C hand back DOWN through

your left C hand.DO hold the eel’s head so that the reader cansee the eel’s open mouth.The eel does NOT bite, move its head side-to-side, or come further out of its hole.

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Request: Tell buddy there is an eel in the hole.Signed: Eel in hole.

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An eel looking at the hole made by themystery hands & wondering why thehands are signing hole that way.

A fish going into hole to see what isthere and spending several secondsadjusting to the darkness.

An eel sticking its head out of a hole toquickly check outside the hole & thenpulling its head back into the hole.

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Some Eel typesConger = CG Moray = MCusk = CS Snake = SGarden = G Wolf = W


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1 TURN your HEAD at an angle2. Move your right OBJECT HAND rapidly &

EMPHATICALLY down in arc from yourchin.ALTERNATELY you may move your handdown at an angle WITHOUT turning yourhead.

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Touch 1. With your palm down curl the 3rd finger ofyour right 5-hand.

2. Touch your right 3rd finger to back of yourleft S hand for a couple of seconds.In the MIDDLE EAST use your 2nd fingerfor touch.

1. Hold your left S hand against body, palm in.2. Place your right C hand on back of your left,

palm left.+ IF you have trouble making coral

1. Place your right C hand with palm facing lefton top of your S hand, palm facing down.

2. Rotate both hands OUT90 degrees .

(towards the signreader)

Coral

Request: Tell buddy not to touch the coral.Signed: Not touch coral.

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angler fish which lives in VERY DEEPwater.

SNORKLER at the water’s surfacerefusing to believe that he sees an

An octopus touching a sad appearingstargazer fish (who looks fearful ofbeing eaten) with the tip of his tentacle.

C for coral sitting on top of a rock.

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Some Coral typesBlack, see sign for BlackHard, see SeaSigns NaturalistHydro = H (Fire + F & Lace = L)Octo coral =8

Gorgonian - see GorgonianSea Pens = PSoft = STelestaceans [palm/tree fern] = T




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Go

1. Turn your head at a an angle2. With your right FLAT O hand tap twice on

your lips or regulator using LARGE move-ments (as if you are picking up and eating theitems of food one after the other).You may also look straight ahead but makesign at an angle.

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Eat

Request: Ask buddy if he will go eat with you.Signed: Question, you, I go eat?

Make a question mark as with the 2nd finger ofyour right 1-hand as if you were writing on a black-board.

You may include the dot at the bottom, if youwish.

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+ The X hand shape, which is another sign forquestion in American Sign Language (ASL) isalso used for question by many cave divers.

1. Hold your 1-hands with 2nd fingers up & yourpalms facing.

2. Move your hands downward in an arc in thedirection you want you and/or your buddy togo.

An eel tracing a question mark in thewater because he wants to know whythe flat fish is lying on the bottom.

Two gobies going away from a fishwith a big mouth they fear will eat them.

A crab picking up & eating two nudi-branchs, one after the other.




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8. Demonstrate the communications from Practice Reading Intro-ductory using signs from the Fun Signing section and have thestudents translate.

a. Signed: Question, you photograph me?

b. Signed: Look, lobster in hole.

c. Signed: Wow, beautiful blue sponge!

d. Signed: Fish eat coral.

e. Signed: I not touch eel.

f. Signed: Shark go near coral.

Meaning: Are you photographing me? OR dependingon timing. Did you or will you photograph me?

Meaning: Look at the lobster in the hole.

Meaning: Wow, what a beautiful blue sponge!

Meaning: The fish is eating the coral. OR dependingon timing, A fish ate the coral.

Meaning: I did not touch the eel. OR depending ontiming I will not touch the eel.

Meaning: The shark went near the coral. ORdepending on timing, The shark is going near thecoral.

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G. Discuss Basic Safety Signs

1. Show the slide about each sign.2. Demonstrate how to make each sign.3. Discuss each sign’s written and cartoon memory aid.4. Discuss the sign’s action figure and description for signs5. Work with students on learning each sign and making it

correctly6. Demonstrate each communication7. Work with students on signing communication correctly

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1.Wear a color thatcontrasts with yourhands or gloves.

2.Wear solid colorsto make readingsigns easier.

3.Get your buddy'sattention by

ortappingbeforestarting to sign.

wavingthem

4.Make each signclearly.

5.Make most signsin an area thatincludes yourhead and chest.

6.Keep your handssteady whilesigning unlessthe word beingsigned requiresotherwise.

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Signing wearing Gloves or MittensTo make your hands more visible to the reader(s) there are several things you might consider* Wearing light weight gardening gloves which are different colors on the front and back.* Paint the front and back with different colors of rubberized (from a scuba supply store) or acrylic paint (such as used for tee shirts)

Do NOT paint the whole surface -- just outline the finger and the palm of the glove or mitten. Then paint spots on the palm.* Order custom made gloves or mitten from the manufacturer.

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10.Practice signingwhenever you dive.

9.Practice signing withmany different people.

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7.Practice making andreading signs in amirror.

8.Practice signing withyour dive buddy.

DisclaimerUnderwater activities and other endeavors associated with underwater activities are inherentlyhazardous and dangerous and require proper training, supervision, and execution, therefore:

* Fun & Safety Signing Standard Edition is for demonstration purposes only.* Producer of this manual assumes no liability for persons making or reading signs

incorrectly under any circumstances.

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