Eric Sedletzky
Contributor
Good day folks,
PURP wants to do a used gear drive to be able to outfit some of our less fortunate prospects that don’t have and gear and or funds, but would love to participate. We have a lot of young adults starting out in life that are interested in our project that fit this profile.
A little background.
We have a member who took the reins and organized her own removal event involving going out on a minus tide during the king tides and rock picking urchins out of tide pools. She had many people who participated and it was hugely successful. Most of them aren’t divers, but they are young environmentally minded outdoor enthusiasts and wanted to help.
The problem is many of them were ill prepared for exposure to cold water even though they were tide pooling. There is a lot of structure with rocks and low areas some of which are knee to waist deep. Jeans and rubber boots don’t cut it. A few people had on wetsuits but the majority did not.
So my idea is to help them out and try to gear them up with at least wetsuits and booties. We are all volunteer doing this on our own so we’re asking for used gear donations.
We’re primarily looking for wetsuits, wetsuit bottoms, booties, gloves. They can be in any condition, worn out and no good for diving is fine. We are going to do a wetsuit repair clinic at the dive shop.
Maybe you have something that has been hanging in a closet for years that you will never use again and never be able to sell, but you could donate it instead!
Better than it going into a landfill if someone can get more life out of it!
The next step would be if some of these people got really enthusiastic and decided to give freediving/snorkeling a try. Then we would advance our gear drive to include used fins, masks, weights, hoods.
So if you have any of that stuff you would be willing to donate that would be awesome too!
We are not interested in any scuba gear like old regulators or BCD’s at this time, only items listed above.
If you have something that you’d like to donate to our purple urchin removal cause you can PM me here and I will give you my contact information.
Thank you so much for your generosity!
Eric Sedletzky
PURP president
PURP wants to do a used gear drive to be able to outfit some of our less fortunate prospects that don’t have and gear and or funds, but would love to participate. We have a lot of young adults starting out in life that are interested in our project that fit this profile.
A little background.
We have a member who took the reins and organized her own removal event involving going out on a minus tide during the king tides and rock picking urchins out of tide pools. She had many people who participated and it was hugely successful. Most of them aren’t divers, but they are young environmentally minded outdoor enthusiasts and wanted to help.
The problem is many of them were ill prepared for exposure to cold water even though they were tide pooling. There is a lot of structure with rocks and low areas some of which are knee to waist deep. Jeans and rubber boots don’t cut it. A few people had on wetsuits but the majority did not.
So my idea is to help them out and try to gear them up with at least wetsuits and booties. We are all volunteer doing this on our own so we’re asking for used gear donations.
We’re primarily looking for wetsuits, wetsuit bottoms, booties, gloves. They can be in any condition, worn out and no good for diving is fine. We are going to do a wetsuit repair clinic at the dive shop.
Maybe you have something that has been hanging in a closet for years that you will never use again and never be able to sell, but you could donate it instead!
Better than it going into a landfill if someone can get more life out of it!
The next step would be if some of these people got really enthusiastic and decided to give freediving/snorkeling a try. Then we would advance our gear drive to include used fins, masks, weights, hoods.
So if you have any of that stuff you would be willing to donate that would be awesome too!
We are not interested in any scuba gear like old regulators or BCD’s at this time, only items listed above.
If you have something that you’d like to donate to our purple urchin removal cause you can PM me here and I will give you my contact information.
Thank you so much for your generosity!
Eric Sedletzky
PURP president
