Scuba diving?

"blktauna;c-17133334" wrote:
I'm a mermaid and all the bouys I find are greyed out. I don't ever get the dive gear option and as a diver, thats kinda important.

As far as I've seen, mermaids can only freedive and spear fish on those buoys. Might be more, but I'm not in game to check atm. They don't scuba dive (or buy the diving gear as far as I know) or snorkel.

Where did you find a red one?

If nothing else just find dark water (it means it's deep). Any buoys there should be red.
Easiest to spot is the one straight north from Pier Perfection, between Sims Simolion Beach and Reef Finery in the St. Taz neighborhood .

As @historicgal pointed out above and I missed..

If it can help anyone

"Kathykins;c-17129372" wrote:
I've only found one so far. Travel to Calder Camp on Mua Pel'am, go down the hill and out to the empty lot on the island ahead. There's a fishing post there also. A bit further out there is a red diving buoy. (look out for fins in the water...)

Faster to just travel straight to the empty lot on the little island with the fishing sign. :)

I have found the 3 buoys - but I don't get the scuba option - it is greyed out - what do they have to do to scuba?

"blktauna;c-17133334" wrote:
I'm a mermaid and all the bouys I find are greyed out. I don't ever get the dive gear option and as a diver, thats kinda important.

Forgive me, this question is very much like asking "What would God need with a starship?" But I have to ask it anyway. What would a mermaid need with diving gear?

"kalaksed;c-17173096" wrote:
@GalacticGal unfortunately, mermaids do need to buy diving gear (except the rebreather). no, i don't know why...but they can't dive for shells, treasure, or fish until they buy the gear associated with it. though they can freedive and potentially get shells or treasure

(...also, every time one of my sims went spearfishing, all they caught was guppies. that's...some impressive spearing. or some tiny spears)

I don't get why this is a problem? Seems completely logical to me. The ONLY gear they don't need is the re-breather. As it should be.

I'm still lookin for it so I can buy the treasure tool. Somehow my sim can only find the snorkeling one