improvised gear

[TyGuy]

im sure rushing out the door or anything other unforeseen circumstance would cause someone to forget a piece of equipment or gear. on our first dive of the year (last year that is) i misplaced my schools line for the flag. so at 430 a.m 30 minutes before walking out the door to meet everyone i looked through my apartment for some kind of line/reel replacement. through sheer chance i happened to have 50 ft of utility cord (for camping and climbing). for a reel i grabbed a plastic coat hanger. walking out the door with my gear on my back i was wrapping the cord around the hanger, needless to say it was the big joke for the rest of the day and right up until we got a new line.

im sure there has to be some instances like this if not better out there.

this was my end result

 

[Guba]

A friend once left his booties home. We made a stop at a Wal-mart on the way to the dive site and he picked up a pair of "aqua socks". They fit inside the wells of his fins perfectly.

I routinely make inflatable markers using "thunder sticks" (those long inflatable devices one sees at sporting events. They are dirt cheap when bought in volume). I attach about 60 feet of line which I roll onto a small piece of PVC, roll up the device and slide into the pipe section. I use a home-made adapter to inflate them from my octo and shoot them from depth. NOTE...these are NOT to take the place of safety gear such as sausages or SMB's. I use them only for marking things I find on the bottom and want to return to. I have pics in my photo album.

http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/62963/ppuser/49695

 

[SteveAD]

I have forgotten the rock boots for my DUI several times, and worn either teva sandals or crocs

 

[TSandM]

I've dived in my Crocs, too -- makes for a busy dive, pulling the springs straps up every couple of minutes, but it's doable.

 

[gcbryan]

I forgot the undergarments for my drysuit once and a female diver in the parking lot who had just completed her dive offered me her jeans (not a small woman!) and someone else offered a vest they were wearing and I ended up doing the dive. It was cold but it would have been worse without the loaned clothes!

It was summer so all I had on my own were the clothes I was wearing...shorts.

 

[idocsteve]

Op your picture doesn't show in your post.

I suspect that you can't link to Gallery pictures using IMG tags.

Here's the link to the Gallery picture.

http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/147527/ppuser/124756


I once forgot my weights so I filled a bunch of ziplock bags with water and used those instead.

 

[TyGuy]

thanks for posting the link to my picture...these are all pretty good stories of forgotten gear

 

[Herk_Man]

I once forgot my weights so I filled a bunch of ziplock bags with water and used those instead.

Not going to bite. Everyone knows that doing that will cause the water to expand at depth and cause an explosion in your BC pocket, possibly blowing your leg off.

 

[idocsteve]

Not going to bite. Everyone knows that doing that will cause the water to expand at depth and cause an explosion in your BC pocket, possibly blowing your leg off.

Impossible!

No way I could even descend.

:cool2:


Speaking of improvisation

I was once stranded on the surface, the dive boat nowhere in sight. I didn't have a safety sausage, but..um..."nature has been very good to me".

So I signaled with that instead. Help arrived rather quickly

 

[Herk_Man]

Impossible!

No way I could even descend.

:cool2:


Speaking of improvisation

I was once stranded on the surface, the dive boat nowhere in sight. I didn't have a safety sausage, but..um..."nature has been very good to me".

So I signaled with that instead. Help arrived rather quickly

Well, I was assuming you had at least 6 ziplock baggies. You were apparently using less so, ya, you obviously could never get down with that.