Full Foot Fins and CoCoView

[cfelliot]

Primarily to RoatanMan from a previous thread post:

Do I read your post in the other thread correctly?

Shore dives from CCV don't allow FFFs?

 

[Hawk]

Full foot fins don't work that well as you don't have booties on to walk in to the dive platform. If you want to walk out barefoot, that is up to you. Booties on your feet to protect them is the best idea though.

 

[ronscuba]

I prefer full foot fins and had no problem using them at Cocoview. The walk in from the shore dive was fine. Mainly packed sand and a few loose pebbles here and there.

I hate the stink of booties and like the extra control of a full foot. I have booties and open heel fins for cold water or rough shore dive entries, but had neither of those conditions at Cocoview.

 

[cfelliot]

I prefer full foot fins........like the extra control of a full foot.....I have booties and open heel fins for cold water....

Ron,

Thanks for the info. I agree with your points exactly. FFFs feel like an extension of my foot, while open heals feel like ski boots on my feet! Necessary in some places, but if conditions permit give me a FFF.

 

[Doc]

I wear those Croc shoes (really the cheap imitations) while walking out to the dive platform, then switch to my FFF.

CCV's only rule is no-gloves. Wednesday I believe is Nekkid Day. That's about it.

 

[herman]

I tend to stay barefoot most any chance I get during warm weather....childhood caryover I recon but my procedure for CCV is to remove my shoes asap when I get there and don't put them back on unit I have to leave. As long as your feet are tough enough to handle wood decks and gravel laced sand, go barefoot. It's one of the small pleasures of CCV, no shoes for a week. I do use boots and fins but only because I don't own a full foot set of fins, otherwise I would be bootless.

 

[diverrick]

you could always wear booties or tevas out and back to the deck then switch to your fins. That has worked for me before. Those little pebbles on the wallk back to shore hurt your soft/wet feeties after you've been diving for a few hours/days. No fear of your stuff getting ripped off there at all. Very safe resort in general, and the deck on the shore dive, is even more safe IMHO.

 

[Vidiotic]

The problem with booties is that you end up with the obvious bootie tan line.

 

[Doc]

The problem with booties is that you end up with the obvious bootie tan line.

The less than obvious bootie issue:

At CCV there is an imp named Scutt that occasionally puts RED gel food dye in the left bootie, and then squirts some GREEN gel in the right bootie. (On most booties you can tell the difference)

You put them on, go diving, and for the next two days you know port from starboard pretty easily. Everybody else can, too.

It's happened to many of us- consider it a badge of acceptance from this CoCoView denizen, Scutt.

 

[Fab]

I'm trying to figure out what "Nekkid Day" is and I'm
hoping it's not what I think it is.