Diving in Levi's??

[cyklon_300]

from Louisiana diving in denim coveralls and no shirt on a Flower Gardens trip.

His sartorial selection was definitely a conversation starter...

 

[jonnythan]

I've done some very wet caving, which often involved swimming, in jeans. Jeans are great caving wear as long as it's a dry cave.. but, man, the wet stuff wearing jeans really sucked.

 

[deadend]

Helldivers and other rig divers in La. wear jeans, flannel shirts, and even polyester disco clothes. I've also known a few commercial divers in the gulf that wore nothing but jeans and flannel shirts.

 

[Moogyboy]

That's what I thought. This must be somebody's idea of a practical joke, or *ahem* making some kind of postmodernist commentary on the open information model that Wikipedia is based on. It's a long, long article, and this person spends a lot of energy promoting what essentially sounds like serious misinformation.

Read for yourself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans#Levis_and_Other_Jeans_For_SCUBA_Diving.2C_Swimming_and_Freediving

cheers

Billy S.

 

[jonnythan]

I want to know why you looked up jeans in the Wikipedia. Saw a reference to Levi's and wasn't sure what they were?

 

[Moogyboy]

I don't rememberthe torturous route that took me to the Jeans entry...all I remember is that it also took me to entries on ties (I even finally learned how to tie my own tie! See!), pajamas, t-shirts, waistcoat vests, collars and six or seven different kinds of bikinis. I think I started out trying to find out everything I could about men's suits. I'm an inveterate information junkie. If there's a hyperlink, you can bet I'll click on it.

cheers

Billy S.

 

[BigboyDan]

In the South and Southwest we wear jeans to almost all activities, at one time or another, including many weddings. People dive, usually shallow, in jeans all the time. I don't, though.

 

[MSilvia]

I grew up swimming in cutoff jeans in the cool water of the north Atlantic around Boston. It never bothered me at the time. Maybe that's why I so rarely get cold in a wetsuit up here. Still, I wouldn't dive in them.

 

[Stirling]

I remember people diving in Levis a very long time ago, because they couldn't afford wetsuits and wanted something to protect them from getting scratched and cut up or stung. I have never seen anybody wearing Levis *over* a wet suit, but I suppose you could do it for the same reason - to provide some really minimal but cheap protection for your wet suit, or maybe for the fashion statement. But as was pointed out near the top of the thread, wet cotton is just about the worst choice you can make for heat loss when you get out of the water, and I would expect them to provide just about zero thermal benefit in the water, too. Not to mention the drag.

 

[drbill]

This must be an extreme case of marketing types going crazy.

Dr. Bill