What do you do with your PADI Patches?

[greg somers]

like those nicotine patches except for divers who haven't been able to get to the water for a while. They slap on a patch and think of bubbles....Aaahhhhhh!!!!!!!....that's better

ut:

I still haven't done anything remotely sensible with my very first patch that I got when first certed in 1985. Every once in a while I pull it out from the bottom of my knick-knack drawer and think....
" Hmmmm, I must buy myself a jacket to sew this thing onto...."
To sew them all on now, I would need 1 very large jacket with 4 - 6 sleeves....heheh..
Cheers All Ears,
The Gasman

 

[Walter]

"I think that like Spare Air, they should be bright orange.

So they're easier to spot."

What's this? a change of opinion?

 

[Ron Brandt]

The only one I have on anything is my Divemaster. It was the first level I felt was worth anything and was taken to a seamstress to put on.

The new ones look small and I keep telling the PADI regional manager and the USA that they look like bowling patches.NFG
The speciality crests look like fire kindling.

As an MSDT I do not advertise anything on any jacket.

Funny thing,I was in the Vancouver airport a few years back and was wearing that Divemaster jacket.It seems to the general public to be a higher designation than instructor, as a server in one of the lounges asked me if I was going someware warm to work and teach scuba.Also , the general public starts conversations about diving with me .

Ron

 

[ElectricZombie]

Making the Spare Air "easier to spot", will help you determine who you will NOT be diving with that day!

 

[Popeye]

Walter once bubbled...
"I think that like Spare Air, they should be bright orange.

So they're easier to spot."

What's this? a change of opinion?

For many of us, it was... humor.

Missed you in my South Florida diving thread...

 

[Jonathan]

my instructor never gave them to me - he always removed them from the crew pack and threw them away!

Still boy scouts probably like them....

 

[Walter]

Definately humorous, it's always funniest when true.

What's the point? You saw what you saw, I wasn't there, I didn't see it.

 

[mdr231]

Oreo cookie once bubbled...
Do the patches have any function, when do they give them to you?

Our instructor just gave them to use when we passed the courses. I assumed they were just part of the PADI process.

Michael

 

[padishep]

Who are you guys kidding? I bet everyone of you wear some piece of clothing with some logo on it. How about those cool tennis shoes, or your t-shirt that advertises beer or some dive mfg.

What a joke.

 

[WaterDawg]

ElectricZombie once bubbled...
Stick them on your friends' BC while he is not looking...kind of like a "Kick Me" sign in the SCUBA world. Everyone will have a great time making fun of him!

Dude thats too funny!!!!!!