True Minimalism

[The Fresh Prince]

I guess I do not fully understand Hogarthianism or whatever that is. Never heard of it? I have though in recent years taken up all sorts of taboo diving practices. I dive solo. I have ditched my BC. I have eliminated all but one 2nd stage, no octupus, no nothing. I have stopped using the latest high tech computer and have gone back to my Princeton Techtonics analog bottom timer and my dive watch and the Navy Tables. I don't use a weight belt in warm water with just a lycra skin or 0 bouyancy garment and if I do use weights I attach them to my harness. I never liked snorkels even for free diving so that is gone too. My small knife clips to my back pack harness and there is no crotch strap! I have taken up with full foot fins as well. I have become the antithesis of dive shops. I don't care if PADI likes it. Yes, I guess if I go to a resort and dive on the cattle boats I have to play the game but even then I use as little equipment as possible. Lately over the last few years I have taken note that others are doing this as well. Is this a real trend? No equipemnt? No tech? N

The trend is to go naked and grow gills.

 

[Nemrod]

J.S.. thanks for the tip. When I was a teenager I did try to build a gill system after reading about one in the PM magazine. It was a dismal failure, trying to use the osmotic membrane from a water softner just didn't cut the mustard! But, the good news is that diving naked is a lot of fun and it does fit with my minimalistic approach. I guess I should have been more clear in an earlier post in this thread about the tourist divers on the cattle boat whose eyes popped out when I paddled up beside them on my kayak five or so miles offshore. Uh, well, I best leave the rest to your your active imagination. Thanks. Nemrod

 

[OneBrightGator]

:headshake

 

[Wendy]

:headshake

:classic:

 

[Michael Schlink]

I like to dive naked also-that way I know when I'm a foot away from the reef !


(sorry I had to do it-please forgive me)

 

[Michael Schlink]

Hey is anyone going to tell Nemrod who Bill Main is etc. etc.?? Where are all the links and such?

 

[Capnsnott]

I have to say that leaves the realm of Hogarthian and enters the world of minimalist mysticism..... Can't say much more than :dropmouth

 

[Capnsnott]

Ummmm,
Michael S.
go look, I just posted a new thread that explains it.
G

 

[OneBrightGator]

Hey is anyone going to tell Nemrod who Bill Main is etc. etc.?? Where are all the links and such?

Me thinks that would be an effort in futility.

 

[The Fresh Prince]

I like to dive naked also-that way I know when I'm a foot away from the reef !


(sorry I had to do it-please forgive me)

why, are you swimming backwards into it?