The Diving Concepts drysuit boot soles have a well deserved reputation for wearing smooth quit quickly. Mine are as smooth as a baby's bottom (well...).
No big deal, except that one of our popular dive locations has a slope to climb after the dive, and it's now covered with slippery ice and snow. While all the other divers, with there boot traction in tact, make it up just fine, it is quit the precarious climb for me and my doubles. Twice now I have fallin' to my knees on the snowy rocks in my doubles and had to crawl to the top. Even the slick parking lot is a slapstick, ice skating adventure for me.
So, someone suggested that I mix gritty sand into some aquaseal and paint it on the bottom of my soles to restore traction.
Sounds like a good idea to me. Any thoughts or other ideas? No use replacing the boots - these things wear fast and I'd soon be back in the same situation.
No big deal, except that one of our popular dive locations has a slope to climb after the dive, and it's now covered with slippery ice and snow. While all the other divers, with there boot traction in tact, make it up just fine, it is quit the precarious climb for me and my doubles. Twice now I have fallin' to my knees on the snowy rocks in my doubles and had to crawl to the top. Even the slick parking lot is a slapstick, ice skating adventure for me.
So, someone suggested that I mix gritty sand into some aquaseal and paint it on the bottom of my soles to restore traction.
Sounds like a good idea to me. Any thoughts or other ideas? No use replacing the boots - these things wear fast and I'd soon be back in the same situation.