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"OC and finning are for vacation divers"
or is that worse than "peasants"?
or is that worse than "peasants"?
"Open-circuit and finning are for peasants"
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I don’t find it funny nor offensive
Is more complex gear or making it easier on yourself something to be proud of? Maybe, maybe not. I'm imagining a freediver wearing a shirt advertising disdain for scuba gear of any type. To some, less is more, and the reward is in the effort.
Eric Sedletzky
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That’s actually very true. I put on a dive campout and party once and there was a group of freedivers who were invited. Half didn’t attend because they heard there were going to be scuba divers there.
I don't freedive, and I admit I sometimes makes fun of freedivers--in a good-natured way, I think, and not to their face. But this thread reminds me it can cut both ways. As individuals we all have our preferred way of experiencing the underwater world, whether it's CCR/DPV, OC tech, minimalist rec OC (like, I dunno, a Freedom Plate), or no scuba gear at all.
I'm torn when it comes to technology, in diving and otherwise. I started out life in a very high-tech career, but as I get older I am increasingly drawn to the beauty of simplicity.
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I'm stealing this!!!! Hahaha!!!!
Eric Sedletzky
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I’m quite comfortable just being a total scuba scumbag lowlife who dives wet in freezing cold water on OC, a single tank which most are old and very old gear that is kept to an absolute minimum as far as trinkets. Minimalists such as myself are the biggest scuba dirtbags and I’m very proud to be one.
One comment I made earlier about freedivers which I’d like to add to: I have met more freedivers that where completely intolerant of scuba divers, but I’ve never really met a scuba divers that had the same level of contempt for freedivers, none really.
Freedivers can tend to get really elitist sometimes.
So a guy like me is right in the middle, hated by freedivers because I hunt on scuba in “their territory”, and tech divers/CCR divers hate me because I’m a peasant scumbag OC single steel tank diver using 50 yo gear and a wetsuit and commit so many DIR felonies that I deserve a life sentence.
But I’m OK with all of it.
One comment I made earlier about freedivers which I’d like to add to: I have met more freedivers that where completely intolerant of scuba divers, but I’ve never really met a scuba divers that had the same level of contempt for freedivers, none really.
Freedivers can tend to get really elitist sometimes.
So a guy like me is right in the middle, hated by freedivers because I hunt on scuba in “their territory”, and tech divers/CCR divers hate me because I’m a peasant scumbag OC single steel tank diver using 50 yo gear and a wetsuit and commit so many DIR felonies that I deserve a life sentence.
But I’m OK with all of it.
OP
Oh Eric, I'd dive with you. In fact, I've notice the old timers sip gas so slowly, that they might give me a run for my money in my rebreather. I'd probably start to get cold before you ran low and needed to end the dive.
GiraffeMarineSalvage
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Reverse elitism is a thing too 
I'm glad and respect you're doing what you enjoy, as we all should 
(From a freedive/OC/CCR, warm and cold water mutt that tries to learn a lot from and welcome all disciplines)
I'm glad and respect you're doing what you enjoy, as we all should (From a freedive/OC/CCR, warm and cold water mutt that tries to learn a lot from and welcome all disciplines)
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