What's in Your Pockets

[tbone1004]

cue the advantage for me with the thigh pockets from DR. You can pull them up to your crotch area if you need to, but you can also adjust the height and location based on your equipment config.

 

[victorzamora]

Yeah, but you look like a dork

 

[tbone1004]

not all of us are lucky enough to dive dry all the time....

 

[LiteHedded]

not all of us are lucky enough to dive dry all the time....

put pockets on your wetsuit

 

[tbone1004]

Doesn't help diving shorties, and also means I have to move stuff back and forth from pockets. Victor was just giving me ****, par for the course from him. They work for me, and I haven't had any issues diving like that. The real thing is having them more forward for sidemount, and getting them back to normal when in backmount, I dive ~equal amounts in doubles and in sidemount, so having the flexibility works for me and I haven't had any issues with pockets slipping.

 

[LiteHedded]

whatever works

 

[victorzamora]

I like the idea of the pocket-shorts over my wetsuit and just using my drysuit pockets.

I say "idea" because I'm not diving wet other than on vacation in WARM water (like, shorty warm). Tom has policy reasons keeping him from diving dry in all conditions (place he volunteers to help with has rules against diving dry with students) and therefore has to switch. My dives in a wetsuit involve, at most, one spool and one SMB. Dry is when I get into overhead situations and I need to worry about pockets. If I ever dive a cave in a wetsuit, I'll be looking for the pocket-shorts before I go.

 

[boulderjohn]

I like the idea of the pocket-shorts over my wetsuit and just using my drysuit pockets.

I say "idea" because I'm not diving wet other than on vacation in WARM water (like, shorty warm). Tom has policy reasons keeping him from diving dry in all conditions (place he volunteers to help with has rules against diving dry with students) and therefore has to switch. My dives in a wetsuit involve, at most, one spool and one SMB. Dry is when I get into overhead situations and I need to worry about pockets. If I ever dive a cave in a wetsuit, I'll be looking for the pocket-shorts before I go.

I use the pocket shorts when I dive in Mexico, and I used them when I dived wet in the Bahamas. They work great. In fact, I like the pockets on them better than my dry suit pockets.

 

[scubastingray]

Honestly I've dove with drysuit and pockets, and without pockets on a wetsuit in a cave. Granted I'm only at the intro level, but I don't miss having pockets. I do have to rely on my partner's backup mask, but many do not even carry one and I've yet to hear of a lost mask incident where a spare has saved the day.

The lights get clipped off, the cookies and arrows go on surgical tubing, and the spools and reel go on the butt d-ring. A computer on each arm, and there is little I wish I could bring with me. I think when I get pockets on my next exposure suit it'll be nice to have a slate, but at my little if something requires communication via slate it is time to end the dive. There is little I need to record yet that I cannot do mentally.

 

[tbone1004]

required for me are analog depth gauge and tables due to not carrying a backup computer, so those are required. Spool and double enders because I don't want to run the risk of them trailing behind me. Usually I only have the left pocket and just throw tables in there, but right pocket comes up for deep wreck diving.