freewillie
Contributor
I've seen previous threads describing divers a Christmas trees. I've always thought I'd never be one of those divers but ...
I geared up last weekend for a local shore dive. Now, in my defense I'm still using a hybrid of my own personal gear and rental gear. On my left upper BC D-ring I have a retractable compass. Right upper D-ring I have a console SPG, compass, and dive computer (rental gear). Lower right D-ring have velcro style octo holder (cord goes around mouthpiece and inserts into velcro holder. just pull when needed and coumes out) and octo. Small dive light goes in pocket BC but did use during dive and clipped off when doing surface swim back to shore. Now I'm thinking I've got all this gear hanging off of me on clips and retractors and I must be one of these Christmas tree divers.
I'm eventually planning to streamline to wrist mounted AI computer, and using inflator/octo combo (not Air2 but Atomic SS1) so won't have as much dangling off of me.
But got me thinking, what is necessary in terms of gear and what makes you (me) look like a Christmas tree?
I geared up last weekend for a local shore dive. Now, in my defense I'm still using a hybrid of my own personal gear and rental gear. On my left upper BC D-ring I have a retractable compass. Right upper D-ring I have a console SPG, compass, and dive computer (rental gear). Lower right D-ring have velcro style octo holder (cord goes around mouthpiece and inserts into velcro holder. just pull when needed and coumes out) and octo. Small dive light goes in pocket BC but did use during dive and clipped off when doing surface swim back to shore. Now I'm thinking I've got all this gear hanging off of me on clips and retractors and I must be one of these Christmas tree divers.
I'm eventually planning to streamline to wrist mounted AI computer, and using inflator/octo combo (not Air2 but Atomic SS1) so won't have as much dangling off of me.
But got me thinking, what is necessary in terms of gear and what makes you (me) look like a Christmas tree?