The All Inclusive SCUBA Tattoo Thread

[andrea31419]

My husband has a dive flag with an octupus entangled around it, on his arm. He's working on an original aquatic scene. I'm getting a heartshaped dive flag with a dolphin on either side, on my lower back. I'll get the pics of the flag and octupus, and will send pics when the others are finished.

Andrea

 

[Dee]

Only two are dive related. Large octopus on left thigh and Juv. Spotted Drum on top of right foot. Plans on the drawing board for a scenic.

 

[PaulB]

Popeye once bubbled...


Let's see....

I have a dive flag tatoo'd on my left arm, two on my back, one of which is an American flag with a dive strip through it, and an 8" brand (yes, like a bull) of a diver's head, mask, reg and bubbles also on my back.

Also my DAN number and some medical info.

I posted pictures of most of it a while back.

I was thinking of getting a brand. How bad does it hurt. I'm good with pain so I don't think it will be a problem. Is it hard from keeping it from getting infected? I would think so since it is a burn mark.

 

[jbm]

Barracuda2 once bubbled...
These are fantastic!! Barracuda2

Mine just says "MOM"



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[jbm]

jbm once bubbled...




Mine just says "MOM"



jbm

Beat that Popeye!!


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[Popeye]

jbm once bubbled... ...

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jbm once bubbled...

Mine just says "MOM"

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Beat that Popeye!!


jbm



My parents were college professors.

I dropped out of highschool on my 17th birthday and joined the Marines.

May 8th, 1978, I got a tatt of the Marine Corps emblem on my left forearm, inside.

I hid it from my mom for two years... she still hasn't forgiven me.

If I got one that said "mom", she'd have me caned...

 

[Popeye]

PaulB once bubbled...


I was thinking of getting a brand. How bad does it hurt. I'm good with pain so I don't think it will be a problem. Is it hard from keeping it from getting infected? I would think so since it is a burn mark.

I researched it on the net extensively, you should do the same.

There are risks...

Try "scarification" as well as branding.

The same, but different.

We had a few bags of frozen peas to put on it when it got bad.

While stone cold sober when we started, I'd had a king's ransom in corn liquor when we were done (but that was the course of the evening anyway).

It really wasn't bad, though.

Use a branding iron, 90 minutes of drawing saps the strength.

The -real- eye opener is when you lay back in the tub, and the scab sticks to the fiberglass...

Or spend a week diving in the Keys the first week it's healing- mmmmmmmm, saltwater...

Kinda like sticking your tongue to a frozen pole...

But much worse.

I'm a mechanic, and I bleed daily.

We've started stitching each other up at work.

I get sutures wet a lot, never dress wounds or burns (they dry faster).

I -never- get infections, might be different with someone else...

(I always say no self-respecting germ/virus would even enter -my- body...)

Could be the vodka intake, I don't know.

 

[JDostal]

Brings a tear to my eye...reminds me of when we did the brandings on my friends. Such good times...*sniff*

 

[jbm]

Popeye once bubbled...

May 8th, 1978, I got a tatt of the Marine Corps emblem on my left forearm, inside.

I hid it from my mom for two years... she still hasn't forgiven me.

If I got one that said "mom", she'd have me caned... [/B]

Then I'm guessing she's not cool with the branding!


jbm

 

[scuba-punk]

My first tat was a tribal shark design on my chest. totally love the creatures. even when i was a kid, i wanted to be a scuba diver just to swim with sharks. now that i have dove with sharks, i can't get enough of them. it took me a few years until i found a design that i really liked enough. i need to get it filled in one more time until it's black enough for me.

other than that, i have a frog on my leg and i'm planning on a eskimo orca on the left side of my chest next. and after that, sleeve my lower left leg with a tropical reef picture - but with picasso-ish looking fish. almost done drawing them...

-Frank