Tantalized, tortured by "flamingo pink" fins...STOP ME!

[diverlady]

Okay so I've taken much abuse over my rather large assortment of pink divegear but at least I know which stuff is mine (and so does everyone else!!).

I say get the pink fins. Your buddy won't have any trouble keeping an eye on you. Just ask DivingGal. She found it quite easy to tell me apart from everyone else - that is until another diver with pink fins swam by!

Refuse to be assimilated.
Think Pink!!


Diverlady bounce:

 

[Ber Rabbit]

Nothing wrong with pink fins, of course going against the fashion grain has always brought me a sense of pleasure

Personally I REFUSE to match! Here's a photo ZoCrowes took in October (btw, my bc is actually pink it just looks orange in the photo):
http://www.scubaboard.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=416904

Now go to this website and see if you can find me in any of these pictures

Find Ber

Let's just say that I may look ridiculous but my buddy and my students never lose track of me when we're overtaken by a large group of divers. Dare to be different!
Ber

 

[lakesdiver]

My wife has an old pair of pink jets. Lots of folks joke about them, but always follow up with "at least I know who YOU are underwater."

 

[kelpmermaid]

I have a pink snorkel and a pair of pink Blades...the latter do not fit over my current "local use" booties, but I do take them on warm water trips. Diverlady is right -- no one else will touch them. I'd love to own pink jet fins.

It's just a color, for heaven's sake!

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

My first few pairs of fins were pink. I loved them. Now I have dull boring blue. Seriously considering painting the bottoms pink or yellow so my buddies can see me in low vis. Also, I have a faded pink BC, pink on my mask....

Black is so hot to wear down here. Why are there so few choices? Black, yellow, hot pink, neon green, or blue.

Pink really isn't my first choice...its just that the choices are so limited. How about a tropical blue/turquoise?

 

[ew1usnr]

A friend of mine tried to get his wife to dive. She said that she wanted pink dive gear. After two dives she never did it again. Rather than waste the dive gear, my friend mixed it in with his and made use of it. The pink really does stand out in photographs. If he is at a distance, the only thing you can see in the photo is whatever pink thing it was that he was wearing.

 

[ScottyK]

Jen dives with pink fins and a pink tank. Anyone laughing at the surface would have to stop there. They'd be too busy eating her dust underwater

 

[SubMariner]

that yellow is the new pink?

That's the colour of MY fins. Much easier for my students to see me that way, eh?!

Sorry.. couldn't resist.

 

[diverbug]

My pink fins were the first article of dive gear I got (received them as a gift 12 years ago) and I still love having pink fins. I second the comments made above regarding lack of confusion on diveboats, easy identification underwater, etc.

My dive buddy is really into u/w photography and I have to say that a little color (PINK) on gear is great for pics.

I say go for 'em!

Julia
(brand new member )

 

[divebunnie]

Divemistress you are among friends!!

"How many women -- and men -- here wear pink fins? How many would consider it? Do other divers make fun of you? Do you care? Do clothes make the man? Do fins make the diver?"

In answer to the above... loads-- not seen any men tho, even more if they dared, yes, no, no and it depends.

My pink collection began with my mask and snorkel donated by my 60year old Mum when she couldn't pursue the final dive of her open water (well she was trying to do it in England in April, which at any age would have been a bit of a conquest).

And I am embarassed, ashamed, yet oddly proud, to admit that I now have the pink fins (2 sets, one for warm and one for cooler diving) and a nifty little pink feature on my wet suit (not the whole suit, as that would have been overkill for me), together with a pink lining to my outer jacket (tho that doesn't actually show). I wanted to go further with a pink octopus, but couldn't find one at the time. Yes, I get teased, but hey, it always breaks the ice.

You see the sad thing, is that since I was a child, I have always liked the colour pink anyway, so pink bits in my kit were kind of inevitable. Then, more recently, I have found out that in technical diving, neon pink is the colour that remains visible deeper than all the others, so maybe we are all heading down the right track without even realising.

Personally, I think each to their own, it's the diver inside that is more important, and the sealife that we are meant to be looking at. If some people want to have a little fun with their kit, then great! Life is too short. So long as we don't scare the fish... on the other hand, I'm sure I heard something about shark's having a penchant for yellow... shark yellow is a term I have definitely heard bandied around... that's food for thought.

I'm just waiting for Scubapro to bring out a pink version of their twin speed split fins... speedy or what!

Ooo, nearly forgot, both my main torch and spare are also a wonderful neon pink!