DaleC
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People keep asking me what kind of rebreather I have
What does your choice of scuba gear say about you?
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Eric Sedletzky
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Yer lookin' at it,
this is what I use for minimalist diving.
The suit was $390
The weights I poured myself from tire weights (free)
The rubber weightbelt was $19.95
The tank was free
The reg was Free (trade)
The fins were $150
The socks I made out of an old 1/4" Rubatex suit - free
The compass was a gift
The bottom timer was a gift
The gun was $269, but I tie my own bands for about $10 a set (4 sets so far)
The game hook I made (free)
Double ended s/s bolt snap was $4
The J-rod I made (free)
The mask was $39
The BFK was free (gift)
The s/s tank bands I made from scrap stainless (free)
The harness I sewed and made from scratch and it replicates an old one to a "T" including the 1" d-rings I made for connections - double D-rings for waist strap, shoulder straps, and chest strap (loop back under d-ring and pull "tail" to release)...works great, materials about $5.
Gloves were $39
So what is this "image"?
this is what I use for minimalist diving.
The suit was $390
The weights I poured myself from tire weights (free)
The rubber weightbelt was $19.95
The tank was free
The reg was Free (trade)
The fins were $150
The socks I made out of an old 1/4" Rubatex suit - free
The compass was a gift
The bottom timer was a gift
The gun was $269, but I tie my own bands for about $10 a set (4 sets so far)
The game hook I made (free)
Double ended s/s bolt snap was $4
The J-rod I made (free)
The mask was $39
The BFK was free (gift)
The s/s tank bands I made from scrap stainless (free)
The harness I sewed and made from scratch and it replicates an old one to a "T" including the 1" d-rings I made for connections - double D-rings for waist strap, shoulder straps, and chest strap (loop back under d-ring and pull "tail" to release)...works great, materials about $5.
Gloves were $39
So what is this "image"?
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Image is typically transferable... It says so right there in the warranty.
Of course that's not always a GOOD thing. (Do you want to be the guy who bought a USED SpareAir?)
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Compatibility is more important in an overhead environment rather than "image".Image is typically transferable... It says so right there in the warranty.
Of course that's not always a GOOD thing. (Do you want to be the guy who bought a USED SpareAir?)
The Truk Stop Dive Guides all have recently "fund-me " second hand DIR/Hogarth equipment BP/W etc (Thanks again to Rob McGann for setting up the account, and to everyone who donated items or money!) --and now donated Petrel Computers to replace old Tec 2G's, of which one replacement Petrel was given as "tip" for nearly seven consecutive years of service guiding me on just about every shallow & deep wreck in the lagoon.
Are you trying to draw a parallel to some dive manufacturer who makes gear as defective as those cans?
Interesting chart. It says to me that people are far more comfortable judging others than they are judging themselves.
I myself buy the gear I do to pick up women. It hasn't worked yet.. at all.. but maybe someday!
DaleC
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Use your knees, not your back.
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An interesting article in this month's Harvard Business Review on the topic of brand choice:
The Science of Why Cool Products Make Us Feel Better About Ourselves: http://s.hbr.org/19UcySy
"Steven Quartz, a coauthor with Anette Asp of the newly released Cool, began investigating this topic with an experiment in his neuroscience lab at the California Institute of Technology. He asked a group of design students to rate a variety of imagescars, clothes, bottled water, logos, celebrities, you name itas cool or uncool, and then showed the same images to another set of aspiring designers while scanning their brains with an fMRI machine. The scans showed that when the second group of students saw an image that had, without their knowledge, been deemed coola photo of Mick Jagger, for example, or an offbeat brand symboltheir medial prefrontal cortexes went into overdrive. This front section of the brain handles tasks such as daydreaming, planning, and, most of all, self-reflectionthat is, it plays a crucial role in helping us shape our identities. Cool products make us feel better about ourselves."
Further reading on the topic:
Cool: How the Brains Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World
Steven Quartz and Anette Asp
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015
Decoding the New Consumer Mind: How and Why We Shop and Buy
Kit Yarrow
Jossey-Bass, 2014
The Science of Why Cool Products Make Us Feel Better About Ourselves: http://s.hbr.org/19UcySy
"Steven Quartz, a coauthor with Anette Asp of the newly released Cool, began investigating this topic with an experiment in his neuroscience lab at the California Institute of Technology. He asked a group of design students to rate a variety of imagescars, clothes, bottled water, logos, celebrities, you name itas cool or uncool, and then showed the same images to another set of aspiring designers while scanning their brains with an fMRI machine. The scans showed that when the second group of students saw an image that had, without their knowledge, been deemed coola photo of Mick Jagger, for example, or an offbeat brand symboltheir medial prefrontal cortexes went into overdrive. This front section of the brain handles tasks such as daydreaming, planning, and, most of all, self-reflectionthat is, it plays a crucial role in helping us shape our identities. Cool products make us feel better about ourselves."
Further reading on the topic:
Cool: How the Brains Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World
Steven Quartz and Anette Asp
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015
Decoding the New Consumer Mind: How and Why We Shop and Buy
Kit Yarrow
Jossey-Bass, 2014
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Aqua-Andy
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RJP, I'm sorry, I may not be a marketing god so you may want to ignore my comments here. I find fault in the study you linked. If they find a borderline geriatric patient "Mick Jagger" to be "COOL" I must be a goddamned rock star!
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