Booties... Yes or No??

[MauiScubaSteve]

It really depends on the dive site, and it really depends on the diver. Sounds like some posters need to change their depends.

I know quite a few instructor/guides who wear full foot when they can. We have plenty of shore dives that start off a nice soft beach! In the summer the tenderfoot visitors whine about the hot sand, but a lot of the Maui resort diving is done in cheap snorkle fins. The boat I dive from has nice soft carpet, so full foot works fine there too. If I'm diving Sharks Cove or 5-Graves, booties are safer. If I'm diving Tunnels or Black Rock full foot is not less safe. If I'm shore diving the Big Island booties are the only way.

 

[crab lover]

I agree about the sharp lava rocks, I might wear booties then, but on a boat? No way. I have these things, I think they call them shoes or something like that, but then again I was up drinkin' all night, who knows.

Some boat owners here will not let you wear shoes/slippers on their boats, so booties are the only answer to the non-skid mats.

 

[Cacia]

Aren't you guys quasi Californians or something

yea, and we shaka right off the non-stop flight from LA too. Florida has too many billboards, don't ya think?

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

Everywhere? How are they safer everywere?

Booties are safer for many reasons. For example, beer is sold in glass containers all throughout the world, even primitive places like Oregon. After 4 beers the universal rule is you must break each emptied bottle on a rock.

Glass cuts through flesh easily enough.

Even manly flesh gets cut

 

[friscuba]

Even manly flesh gets cut

So should we be wearing booties on our man flesh? You did say you use booties "everywhere" earlier.

 

[Lopaka]

Florida has too many billboards, don't ya think?

Definitely too many New Yorkers....:whack:

 

[kidspot]

I dove with a friend one time who wore only full foot fins. We entered, swam with the current then got out and walked back ... he wasn't so keen on full foot fins after having a 1/4 mile walk on hot asphalt back to the cars

I vote for boots

Aloha, Tim

 

[Zieg]

Definetly TOO many billboards, and yes too much broken glass even in our white sand beaches. Up here in the panhandle, the rednecks don't wait for the obigitory fourth beer to start breaking the bottles. But, I wear my beloved full-foots whenever Ican, which may explain some of the scars on my feet. Then again, I'm one to talk, on trips I carry both. Thank you, I have enjoyed this discussion very much.

 

[river_sand_bar]

Ok, so booties are in....

Now, I just got on the weekend... my new Aqualung Solafx 8mm hooded wet suit... should that make it into the gear bag?? Just kidding... dove yesterday and it was 54 deg at depth.... CANT wait for warm water!!

 

[ThatsSomeBadHatHarry]

I dive a 7/5 hooded semi-dry here (JJ, stop laughing)

...only for lack of anthing else. It's like diving in a comforter