benrachor
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Hello everyone,
I recently have been doing more commercial diving than recreational diving. Most of my commercial dives are for a sailboat charter company here in Fort Lauderdale Florida at their marina docks. I mostly do hull inspections after charters, scrape bottoms, change zinc's and change props. I don't make a lot of money, but I think it's kind of fun working on the boats.
During the summer months I don't wear a wet suit (just board shorts and a rash shirt), I use a XS scuba pony tank backpack (No BC), a single regulator (No Octo), and just a single pressure gauge. No computers, no compass, no fancy equipment; tank backpack, mask and fins, no snorkel. I get my weight just right so I'm neutral in the water, if I want to go down I swim down, if I want to go up I swim up, very simple. My dives are less than an hour and my maximum depth is around 8 feet, yes I said 8 feet.
Every time a go to the local dive shop to get air, they try and sell me stuff. Oh you need a new $600 BC, oh you need a dive computer, oh you need a new snorkel. Oh you need a $300 wetsuit. You have to have a compass, how do you know where your going? I tell them every time, "I dive in 8 feet of water, what?" I also tell them, "sell me the equipment that I need and I'll buy from you, if not I'll go somewhere else."
The funny thing is, I pull into the dive shop parking lot in my work truck and it's full of BMW's and Escalades. This is Fort Lauderdale. But, I walk into the dive shop wearing my wet board shorts, and a old pull-over sweat shirt with stains on it.![ROFL :rofl3: :rofl3:](/community/styles/scubaboard/smilies/rofl.gif)
What's the deal man, I guess they think I'm loaded like all the other customers? I'm just a rough neck...![IDK :idk: :idk:](/community/styles/scubaboard/smilies/idontknow.png)
I recently have been doing more commercial diving than recreational diving. Most of my commercial dives are for a sailboat charter company here in Fort Lauderdale Florida at their marina docks. I mostly do hull inspections after charters, scrape bottoms, change zinc's and change props. I don't make a lot of money, but I think it's kind of fun working on the boats.
During the summer months I don't wear a wet suit (just board shorts and a rash shirt), I use a XS scuba pony tank backpack (No BC), a single regulator (No Octo), and just a single pressure gauge. No computers, no compass, no fancy equipment; tank backpack, mask and fins, no snorkel. I get my weight just right so I'm neutral in the water, if I want to go down I swim down, if I want to go up I swim up, very simple. My dives are less than an hour and my maximum depth is around 8 feet, yes I said 8 feet.
Every time a go to the local dive shop to get air, they try and sell me stuff. Oh you need a new $600 BC, oh you need a dive computer, oh you need a new snorkel. Oh you need a $300 wetsuit. You have to have a compass, how do you know where your going? I tell them every time, "I dive in 8 feet of water, what?" I also tell them, "sell me the equipment that I need and I'll buy from you, if not I'll go somewhere else."
The funny thing is, I pull into the dive shop parking lot in my work truck and it's full of BMW's and Escalades. This is Fort Lauderdale. But, I walk into the dive shop wearing my wet board shorts, and a old pull-over sweat shirt with stains on it.
![ROFL :rofl3: :rofl3:](/community/styles/scubaboard/smilies/rofl.gif)
What's the deal man, I guess they think I'm loaded like all the other customers? I'm just a rough neck...
![IDK :idk: :idk:](/community/styles/scubaboard/smilies/idontknow.png)