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Robert Phillips:
Do forget the snorkel: Leave it in the dive bag or in the garage. Wear it on a dive and we'll laugh at you and you'll look like a dork.

And the pig sticker on your calf: This is not WWII and you ain't Lloyd Bridges. Wear that thing and we'll laugh at you and you'll look like a dork.

Spare Aire? Leave it at the dive shop, roll with one of these and we'll laugh at you and you'll look like a dork.

More anyone?

I left the Snorkle off the list for love for my unfortunate, oppressed OCal homies.

Good call in the 'sticker, bro. I missed that one.

More? Of course.

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About that $300 Atomic "Safe Second" in bright red? At depth, its no longer red, Einstein. Roll in with one of those when you could do a better job with a $125 real regulator and we'll laugh at you and you'll look like a dork.

If you don't tuck in your Drysuit hood, and insist on diving with it flapping in the breeze looking all Sir Walter Raleigh, well, you're just sad. Listen Beefeater, tuck the thing in, please. If you don't we'll laugh at you and you'll look like a dork.

If you're gonna dive Rock Boots with your DUI's (I do) please trim those laces. You're not in grade school gym. Listen Hackman, Hoosers was a long time ago, and nobody has wrapped laces around their ankles since the Johnson Administration. Long laces thankfully went the way of the NBA's tight shorts. Trim those laces or we'll laugh at you and you'll look like a dork.

Do I really have to come over there and cut off that flapping valve cap? Here's some news: When the valve is on, and the reg connected, you don't need the cap. Pull the cap off the tank valve and leave it in the car or we'll laugh at you and you'll look like a dork.

Colorful hose wraps? Dude, listen: dollar hookers and freshly minted SSI divers wear colorful fishnets (not that that's a deal breaker) - real divers dive real hoses. Leave the $50 matching hose wrap job for the wankers in the 909. If you want to be taken seriously as a diver, roll in serious gear. Show up at the dive site with purple hose wrap and matching purple strain reliefs and we'll laugh at you and you'll look like a dork.

Bust out a hammer and knock the tank boots off your doubles, bro. Nothing says "I'm diving rental gear" like tank boots on doubles. If you gotta stand up the twin towers, you're a loser and we'll laugh at you and you'll look like a dork.





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I'm dying!!!:rofl3:
Maybe we should put this stuff in a new thread so we don't hijack meterman's thread anymore...
 
Robert Phillips:
I'm dying!!!:rofl3:
Maybe we should put this stuff in a new thread so we don't hijack meterman's thread anymore...


:D :D :D


Mods, feel free to sensor all of our Hikack Hyjinx

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Ken
 
Roughwaterjohn:
I use a Signature Series DUI TLS350 with the turbo soles, which I bought used about 3 years ago. Works great, no leaks, and it fits great. I use it year round on mostly shore dives.

Same here, but the TLS-350 is not recommended for PV diving (IMO) unless you bring a reallly big roll of duct tape !
 
Robert Phillips:
DO NOT GET A RELIEF ZIPPER!!! Everyone will laugh at you and you will look like a dork.
Spring for an overboard discharge valve and you won't have to call your dive short to unzip and pee. Relief zippers are so NE coast!:D

And for the P-valve, pay $65 at salvo (or Halcyon?) and install it yourself, rather than paying DUI $240 :11:
 
limeyx:
And for the P-valve, pay $65 at salvo (or Halcyon?) and install it yourself, rather than paying DUI $240 :11:

What do you know about installing this P-valve I have never seen one installed only the valves on Ebay
 
meterman:
wondering who here is so. cal. mostly beach dives using a drysuit.. if so what brand of dry suit are you using

If you are only walking in over the sand a thin DUI shell suit would be fine. But if you are climbing over boulders and doing rock entries get something tougher. I've seen a few thin shell suits riped by those sharp shell animals that grow on the rocks. I like the DUI rock boots for tail walking too. They can be laced down tight (unlike molded in boots) so your feet don't slip around inside. You will need some XL fins to fit over the boots and spring straps

I use the Bare HD Tech and the thing is tough as nails. My suit has neoprene "socks" and I use DUI rock boots.

BTW many people think they need a custom size. Most don't and can use either stock or a "customized" stock suit. Mine is a stock size "customized" by having 2 inches taken out of the legs. These kinds of small adjustments are inexpensive.
 

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