Diver image. Do you even think about it?

[TN-Steve]

camo everything.....kind of like the current "tactical" everything...

recently saw a "tactical toiletry bag"

I think I can beat that....



And NO!!!! they aren't mine.

 

[dberry]

Oh, but I bet we could start a pool on SB to raise cash if you post a photo of you modeling these. Or maybe a bigger cash pool for NOT posting such a pic?

 

[ZzzKing]

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i get them in the cleaning section of a hardware store for 3 bucks a pair.

 

[beester]

The last time divers looked cool above water was in the James Bond movie "Thunderball"... in those times diving was a supercool highly dangerous sport practiced by alpha male athletes wearing and doing the right stuff

The last time I saw divers looking cool underwater was seeying the slow is smooth, smooth is fast divers (ie GUE) doing their thing. So relaxed, so in trim, so well cleaned... it's cool diving the dark side...

Finally yes I'm a sucker for image!

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

The last time divers looked cool above water was in the James Bond movie "Thunderball"... in those times diving was a supercool highly dangerous sport practiced by alpha male athletes wearing and doing the right stuff

The last time I saw divers looking cool underwater was seeying the slow is smooth, smooth is fast divers (ie GUE) doing their thing. So relaxed, so in trim, so well cleaned... it's cool diving the dark side...

Finally yes I'm a sucker for image!

The divers in Thunderball and GUE divers are completely different styles, no?
Pretty hard to compare the two.

 

[beester]

The divers in Thunderball and GUE divers are completely different styles, no?
Pretty hard to compare the two.

I'm not denying that... the first is movie...the second is real. Still I feel strangely nostalgic watching that movie (my favourite James Bond movie btw, it ticks all boxes... the right villain with the right ship and ship name disco volante, the right watch, the right costumes, the right car, the right girls, this movie just oozes image). When I was young I always joined my aunt and uncle on weekend diving trips, he was a red bonnet wearing alpha male, with a diving certification signed by Cousteau after doing a stint on Calypso. So of course being the impressionable youth I was... I was very much in awe. The fact that he was hard drinking and from time to time ended up in the sack with the girlfriends/wives of other divers diludes this image somewhat... but still I felt the romantic, adventure side of diving.

Part of that romantic feeling is image, to revert back to the OP point. Same as the slick double set, long hose toting, scooter diving is the new cool of diving... something is only cool if not everybody is doing it... and I think technical/cave diving fills that ticket nicely. That's why I do see quite a lot of divers in my local community who are wearing the heavy double 12L sets, tote the hogarthian rig, do the sidemount thing while at the same time they are not trimix or cave certified and are not ever doing any technical diving... so I guess that must also be image, they feel special just wearing the rig!

Although I'm also a victim of image and also want to look cool... I'll never do that... simply because I hate wearing heavy stuff if it's not absolutely necessary ... linking back to the Thunderball movie... I would so love to get the little rebreather thingie Sean Connery uses in the pool of sharks... would make cave/tech diving so much easier ;-)

 

[FinnMom]

Many people with the tech rig all the time are simply using the everyday dives to stay in practice. It's good entertainment and repeating a drill only once per dive is relatively painless but builds up skill pretty fast if you dive with any frequency.
As it happens, I only own the 1 rig, so when I visit a max 6m quarry my choices are doubles or a snorkel (I prefer the doubles). And it's just as well because the big reason I feel comfortable doing something challenging on a rare occasion is that very little of the challenging situation will be new or unfamiliar.

 

[agilis]

Image? Image? Shouldn't this question be posed in the Junior High School Pathetic Loser forum?

 

[DaleC]

Absolutely. I only worry about my image in post editing when I cut out all the silting shots.

 

[Hawkwood]

Do you have to tilt the frame too?