Flippers?!..lol

[Ed Palma]

:lol: Prick, balls, and dope?

I used to react to people calling them flippers, now it doesn't really matter. Goggles and masks are a different creature altogether though.

 

[Ste Wart]

Goggles go on your face
Flippers go on your feet
The vest goes on your body
and the thingy goes in your mouth.

 

[Bubble_Boy]

lol

 

[Blackwood]

Haha thanks Andy. I do enjoy a good backronym.

 

[Abidon]

lol

So, are those sandals, thongs, shower shoes, or flip-flop flippers?

 

[TracysaCADiver]

Prostetic Rigid Intertial Current Kickers

Ballistic Accelerating Lower Leg System

Developed Operations Propulsion Enhancements

Good one...

 

[knowone]

Rite of passage as a little kid.

First you got your goggles and if you were
lucky, a snorkel, and then, maybe flippers.

The diving documentary dudes called it
"life giving oxygen" for extra flashiness

Then if you were lucky enough to bump into
a "Skindiver" they became masks, and fins.

 

[Bratface]

Flippers: several dolphins with the same name
a broad, flat limb without fingers used for swimming by various sea animals
a lever in a pinball machine

Fins: an underwater swimmer's flipper

 

[101recon]

I will wear a pair of dive boots but you will NEVER catch me wearing booties!

 

[Rhone Man]

Its almost the same situation as when nondivers mistakingly call air tanks..."oxygen tanks"

Of course, eventually you get to the flip side where you habitually refer to your "air" even when your tank is actually filled with nitrox or an even more exotic blend of gases.