Volleyball
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Going to be diving in a santa suit. Does anyone have any overall advice or tips?
Diving in a Santa costume, any tips?
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throw it out after?
It is best if your beard is naturally long and white. Then you just need a red DUI dry suit and top it off with a santa hat.
tarponchik
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Be the only Santa there. A crowd of santas looks like a silly flashmob.
ontdiver
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Perfect hand signal for "HO HO HO" ...
Did you learn nothing from the movie Gremlins? Dressing in a Santa Suit does not make you invincible, and can in fact lead you into dangerous situations.
PADI has a course for this you should strongly consider.
PADI has a course for this you should strongly consider.
OTF
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LMAO $265 santa suit diver cert.
You should really consider running the DIR santa suit configuration especially if you plan to do any chimneys with tight restrictions. Recreational santa suits aren't safe.
For real though, are you donning the costume for a confined water "visit santa on scuba" type event? Or an open water christmas day dive? If it's a normal dive, not much is different other than maybe extra entanglement and drag hazards.
Assuming you're doing this in a shallow pool for a pics with families, consider changes to weighting. You may want to be overweighted or feet-heavy so it's easier to sit in a chair or stand on the bottom while posing for pictures. Having a good photographer with remote strobes will make much nicer images. If you want, consider momentarily removing your mask (and even maybe reg) for funnier pictures where people can actually see your face. If you do that it's worth practicing the drill and figuring out where to hold/hide them.
You should really consider running the DIR santa suit configuration especially if you plan to do any chimneys with tight restrictions. Recreational santa suits aren't safe.
For real though, are you donning the costume for a confined water "visit santa on scuba" type event? Or an open water christmas day dive? If it's a normal dive, not much is different other than maybe extra entanglement and drag hazards.
Assuming you're doing this in a shallow pool for a pics with families, consider changes to weighting. You may want to be overweighted or feet-heavy so it's easier to sit in a chair or stand on the bottom while posing for pictures. Having a good photographer with remote strobes will make much nicer images. If you want, consider momentarily removing your mask (and even maybe reg) for funnier pictures where people can actually see your face. If you do that it's worth practicing the drill and figuring out where to hold/hide them.
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