Home-made wing encounter

[divad]

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[mattroz]

interesting

 

[divad]

You're not the girl with the green wing are you?

 

[divad]

I have a good small story, I'm just too tired now.

 

[mirrocraft]

ok is there a point be hind this

 

[divad]

ok is there a point be hind this

Aside from somebody maybe needing a stamp collection? Yes. Sorry, I've been gravely ill. I was on a boat in Pompano a few weeks ago and a women next to me starts commenting on how streamlined my Oxycheq Mach V was. She really liked it, although she had never heard of Oxycheq. I noticed she had a hunter green horseshoe wing and asked her if it was standard GSA issue. Then I noticed some PVC between the corrigated inflator hose and the wing and asked her to tell me she hadn't made it herself. She had, and was proud of it. She seemed to not have been diving for a while and said that she used to dive in the springs and that they mostly made all their own stuff. I thought it was great. She started to unzip the horizontal zipper on the top of the wing to show me but I didn't want to be a bother so I stopped her. She explained that the bladder was an innertube turned back on its self and glued together with "a lot of glue." The Inflator hose was connected to the bladder by a PVC tee and "lots of glue." She was really happy that on the second drift dive I had a finger-spool for the flag; "we used to make those too." She kept talking about streamlining and said they used to sneak into springs around midnight and do deco-dives 'til 4 or 5 in the A.M. and that she mainly just remembered being cold and needing to pee. Anyway, neat girl and great pickup buddy.

 

[jeffrey-c]

There are probably many who have made their own BCs, but they're usually spoken about posthumously.

 

[divad]

There are probably many who have made their own BCs, but they're usually spoken about posthumously.

This girl was quite alive and I don't think her home-made wing/plastic Bp with no over-pressure valve was in any way endangering her future.

 

[Gary D.]

There are probably many who have made their own BCs, but they're usually spoken about posthumously.

What's the matter with that and why would you think that way?

Gary D.

 

[Mr.X]

There are probably many who have made their own BCs, but they're usually spoken about posthumously.

Some of the pioneers of diving came from San Diego. Sometimes they didn't use BC's. I'll use a common line - It's the diver, not the equipment. X