Colour Coordination

[leapfrog]

OR the "Cheap Look"...............btw, that's what mine looked like till last year---the 1st 20+ years of diving I only updated a mask---hell why not, nothing was broken so why fix it.....Man, lol, they don't make things the way they used to.....

This is the basis for recommending new divers to research properly, get good equipment and buy it slowly over time if they don't have a mega budget to start with.

I've upgraded computers from an "Air Only" widescreen (gray) when I started to "watch type, three gases, three transmitters, log download" (black). Had to give up my first set of really good regs for others because of local servicing issues. My first fins (gray) were a bunch of junk, so I swapped those for ones that do the job I need them to do now(black). Masks: lost one (only!..gray!) I have three (black), one for pleasure, one for classes and a backup. Snorkel (black): No change. BCD (black and gray): Just had a couple of minor holes fixed. Wetsuits: I have a good full 6.5 mm, black, with a totally separate hood (never changed) and a great 3 mm shorty, blue and gold, (never changed). So gray is obviously not my color

 

[syrarff21]

Remember, buying ALL BLACK gear is color coordinating too.
I dive in the lakes of the northeast and vis can be real low. My buddies have told me a few times that my yellow tank/fins made it easier for them to see me. I say buy what fits. If it comes in colors you like than great. If someone gives you crap about it, dive with someone else next time.

 

[Jayde323]

My dive gear has the blue theme. Before I started diving, hubby and I went snorkeling in the Keys. I bought a snorkeling set that was blue. When we took up diving, I bought blue fins to match the mask/snorkel. When I bought my BC, I didn't make the connection until I got home it was black...and blue. When I bought my regs, I just happened to end up with the octo being blue (hubby ended up with yellow in the same model). When I bought tanks....you guessed it, blue. So now that I need to start replacing some stuff, I am keeping the blue theme. Since it is a standard color, I can research and get the gear that is best for me in the color I want. If someone looks at me and thinks I am a noob because I am color coordinated, I really don't care :mooner:.

 

[austriandiveress]

My boyfriend, who oftens leads groups, got together with another guide and bought 2 pair of fins. Now they each have one red and one yellow: it really does make it easy to find him in a group. (Just hope that we never dive with that other guy, though!)
And I met a guy in Croatia last summer who had an enormous piece of white duct tape on the top of one of his fins. I thought it was holding something together, until he showed me that he used the white patch under water to adjust the settings on his camera. Pretty good idea, I guess....