I am speaking at a GUE event. Do I need to get rid of the shoulder buckle on my tanks?

[Stoo]

Kinda new here, but I figure I could count on you folks for help. I guess I am a Dork Diver, although my gear is black.

I don't have many c-cards, but I dive a lot, for a Canadian especially.

So my question... I have been asked to do a presentation at a GUE Invasion that's happening this summer in Tobermory. I warned the organizer that I am kinda the GUE Anti-Christ. I dive alone. A lot. Shoulder buckle (so I can easily remove my kit in the water before hauling myself into my RHIB. (And I have actually CUT the shoulder strap on two "Hogarthian" rigs since the people wearing them were about to drown in rough seas beside my boat...) I don't have lime green split fins but thinking about getting some! ;-)

Anyway, she still wants me... Do I need to get new webbing and go all "continuous"???

 

[Dish]

@Stoo, I recommend that you let your freak flag fly. Folks may ask why you have demonized your rig and now you have the opportunity to convert them.

Viva la Dork Revolution!

 

[Stoo]

I'm glad to hear that. My buckles are ancient old things made by... wait for it... DACOR! They weigh about 2 pounds each and are indestructible. I'd hate to have to remove them...

 

[Dish]

I proudly sport my yellow DACOR weight belt when I travel. That thing must be close to 40 years old! I get many an admiring stare, I can tell ya.

 

[Stoo]

I proudly sport my yellow DACOR weight belt when I travel. That thing must be close to 40 years old! I get many an admiring stare, I can tell ya.

Nice...!

 

[Schwob]

Just an opinion from someone with absolutely no gue, uhhm glue, uhhm cue, uhhm clue (one of those... at least one of those, probably more):

Tricky situation.
As far as the speaking goes:
If you do some testing and produce quantifiable results that demonstrate that there is no efficiency difference between speaking with shoulder buckle and speaking w/o and if you furthermore can demonstrate that the additional potential failure point introduced by the shoulder buckle (you don't have one on each side - or? --- oh my...) does, even in the event of a failure, not affect your speach, then, and after writing and self publishing a book about your research, then you may just get away with speaking in a harness with shoulder buckle. ... in a room... far from water.... maybe...

Diving that way?
Oh my.... Glad you didn't ask that...

 

[Dish]

Vintage gear with a hog rig seems to be the Steam Punk of the Scuba World.

Sign me up!

 

[Stoo]

Just an opinion from someone with absolutely no gue, uhhm glue, uhhm cue, uhhm clue (one of those... at least one of those, probably more):

Tricky situation.
As far as the speaking goes:
If you do some testing and produce quantifiable results that demonstrate that there is no efficiency difference between speaking with shoulder buckle and speaking w/o and if you furthermore can demonstrate that the additional potential failure point introduced by the shoulder buckle (you don't have one on each side - or? --- oh my...) does, even in the event of a failure, not affect your speach, then, and after writing and self publishing a book about your research, then you may just get away with speaking in a harness with shoulder buckle. ... in a room... far from water.... maybe...

Diving that way?
Oh my.... Glad you didn't ask that...

I was thinking more along the lines of a couple of stiff rums before I open my mouth.

 

[AdivingBel]

Give your speech barefoot with little dive flags painted on your toenails. They won't notice your shoulder buckle.

 

[Marie13]

@Stoo forget about the lime green and get PINK instead. Really let your freak flag fly.

You really need to give us a report after your talk happens.