Tell me about surf entries and exits
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Don't know if it's been mentioned but I do this with my fins when entering. I have the spring straps which may help with this.. I put my wrist/arm through the strap so one fin is hanging on my arm. Then I carry the other one in that hand. When in deep enough water (hopefully past waves breaking) I first put on the one in my hand. While I'm doing that I make sure the one on my wrist doesn't have any "opening" to escape. I use both hands to put the first fin on, keeping the one on the wrist secure. Once the first one is on I can now put the other one on, again with both hands, so that one also is secure. I had lost a fin 3 times over the year and was very fortunate to have recovered them diving down with one fin only. This method seems fool proof to me. I do it even in glassy calm water to keep in the habit. Anyone else use this method?
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How do you think that method would work in the conditions of the above video that @MaxBottomtime posted?
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Still Kicking
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If i stuggle to not get my ass kicked on the way out, I am constantly worried that it's gong to get worse bt the time I get out. Not fun. I have had days when I can hear the shore break pounding throughout the dive. Should have gone for breakfast instead.....
When I saw those guys gearing up in the parking lot, I told them it was not a day to dive Marineland. They insisted they wanted to dive anyway, so I grabbed my video camera.A classic!
I never get tired of watching that
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Dude next time you're in town
When I lived on top of this dive site, still a kilometre walk down, and the right hand side was a bit, sticky
I would be laying on my back, wedged into the bottom, watching the surfers zipping over the top of me
I consider surfers to be the coolest, in touch with mother earth, water people, on this magnificent planet
Divers I liken to first day of the season off to the beach white people, before they become pink, then red
When I lived on top of this dive site, still a kilometre walk down, and the right hand side was a bit, sticky
I would be laying on my back, wedged into the bottom, watching the surfers zipping over the top of me
I consider surfers to be the coolest, in touch with mother earth, water people, on this magnificent planet
Divers I liken to first day of the season off to the beach white people, before they become pink, then red
Did drysuit dude ever hook up his hose?When I saw those guys gearing up in the parking lot, I told them it was not a day to dive Marineland. They insisted they wanted to dive anyway, so I grabbed my video camera.
Sometimes the best decision a dive can make is to go home.
Eric Sedletzky
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There's no way my 62 yo body would put up with that now, but 20 years ago I would have been able to do it, even though I wouldn't have just out of common sense because vis would have sucked and surge would have been over the top.When I saw those guys gearing up in the parking lot, I told them it was not a day to dive Marineland. They insisted they wanted to dive anyway, so I grabbed my video camera.
I would have gone in old school no bc steel 72 on a pack, fins on, mask on, reg in mouth and I would have scampered down as far as I could and let the water have it's way with me. I would have gotten knocked down, I would have stayed down and bellied out like a seal kicking like hell to get out. Go down right away and let the waves go over you. Stay on the bottom and claw your way out.
Be careful not to get your head slammed into rock that you can't see. Have nothing loose, no consoles, no extra octos that can freeflow just the one in your mouth. Minimalist all the way, just one step away from freediving, less is more.
Actually, forget the whole idea, even 20 years ago.
I'm going to coffee and breakfast instead.
Inlanders, sheesh!
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