1. Characterizing the composition of divers visiting different diving areas could help to design marine citizen science (MCS) projects that support biodiversity monitoring and marine conservation.
2. Recreational scuba divers mostly prefer warm and clear waters with coral reefs, and based on the Duffus and Dearden’s wildlife tourism framework we hypothesized that a more popular diving area is visited mostly by generalist divers, whereas in a less popular diving area a higher proportion of specialist divers would be found.
3. Recreational scuba divers were surveyed in diving centres at two diving areas, Rapa Nui (more popular, with warm and clear coral‐reef waters) and the Chilean mainland (less popular, with productive and temperate–cold waters), to determine their diving profile, visiting profile, marine species knowledge, and interest and participation in MCS.
4. Support for our hypothesis (generalist divers on Rapa Nui and specialist divers on the mainland) was weak, but recreational divers on Rapa Nui were mostly foreign visitors who come for single visits, whereas divers from the mainland were predominantly Chileans who return repeatedly to the diving area. In both diving areas the divers expressed a strong interest to be trained and to participate in MCS, but divers from Rapa Nui were interested in brief pre‐dive inductions, whereas divers from the Chilean mainland preferred intensive training courses.
5. Based on these findings we recommend specific MCS strategies for divers in both types of areas, e.g. simple protocols in more popular diving areas, with short pre‐dive briefings for divers, and medium or long‐term programmes in areas where most divers are local with high return rates. In these latter conditions more extensive training will be useful, which allows divers to gain more experience and assume higher responsibilities within an MCS project.

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让休闲潜水员参与海洋公民科学：根据潜水区的受欢迎程度而有所不同

1. 确定前往不同潜水区的潜水员的特征，可以帮助设计支持生物多样性监测和海洋保护的海洋公民科学（MCS）项目。
2. 休闲潜水员大多偏爱带有珊瑚礁的清澈海水，根据达菲斯和迪尔登的野生动植物旅游框架，我们假设通才潜水员最常去的潜水区，而在潜水员较少的地方，专业潜水员的比例更高。潜水员将被发现。
3. 在两个潜水区的潜水中心对休闲潜水员进行了调查，分别是拉帕努伊（Rapa Nui）（比较受欢迎，有温暖和清澈的珊瑚礁水域）和智利大陆（不那么受欢迎，有生产力和温带-冷水域），以确定他们的潜水概况，访问资料，海洋物种知识以及对MCS的兴趣和参与。
4. 对我们的假设（拉帕努伊岛上的一般潜水员和大陆上的专业潜水员）的支持很弱，但拉帕努伊岛上的休闲潜水员大多是外国游客，他们单身来此游玩，而来自大陆的潜水员主要是智利人，他们反复返回潜水地区域。在两个潜水区中，潜水员都表示有强烈的兴趣要接受培训和参加MCS，但是来自Rapa Nui的潜水员对简短的潜水前介绍感兴趣，而来自智利大陆的潜水员则更喜欢强化培训课程。
5. 根据这些发现，我们为两种类型的潜水员推荐具体的MCS策略，例如，在较受欢迎的潜水区提供简单的协议，为潜水员提供简短的潜水前简介，以及在大多数潜水员都在当地的地区进行中长期计划高回报率。在这些情况下，更广泛的培训将是有用的，这将使潜水员在MCS项目中获得更多经验并承担更高的责任。