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I'm wondering about sizing?
If someone wears a size 9 for street shoes, what size would they need for a drysuit?

I have a size 9 foot and can wear 1 or 2 pairs of smartwool socks inside my drysuit's neoprene socks with size 11 Chuck's. But that's matched with an XL OMS Slipstream - so your fins play into it too.
 
A friend of mine uses Salomon water shoes, and they look great. He got them at REI. I went to get some, and they were out of them. It is a seasonal item, and they won't have them again until spring.

Now that I have used them in both fresh & salt water, I don't think I will be going back to the Chucks any time soon. I even got some neoprene socks to replace my wet boots so I can use these when wet suit diving.

https://www.amazon.com/Salomon-Amph...pID=41n0qTRH7zL&preST=_SX395_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
 

And, now Steven Tyler dives rebreathers. I think you need to go laceless to "do it right" though.
 
Now I note the US government has developed a Mark 11 coral boot (or Mark ??? by now 70 years later ..)
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Are these the ones?

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I don't do a thing to mine except to rinse them well after and put them in the sun to dry. When it's not sunny or warm enough to dry them outside I put a small fan on them (with my gloves on top with the wrist openings facing the fan) and everything dries out quickly.
 
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Are these the ones?

These are the WW 11 "Coral boots" used by the USN UDT & who knows who else
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Trace,
Once again you came through with flying colors ! I certainly appreciate you being a member of this board

Yes ! These were the exact coral boots we purchased at Palleys war surplus for 19 cents a pair. They were great! constructed of white sail canvass light weight, almost sand proof and had a very thin tough composition sole

The second picture is also very historically unique ! The gentleman is wearing a mask on top of his head ( Oh the horrors -On top of his Head!) but he was either UDT or OSS so it should be allowed .

The mask was designed and patented in 1940 by a local Hal Messinger and produced in Terminal Island ( LA harbor area) by a company called Sea Net owned by a gentleman named A. "pops" Romero. The company was disbanded up on his death in 1954

For a number of years the Sea Net was the mask of choice until the European imports arrived around 1950. Even so many chose to make their own mask like the one Charlie Sturgil made for me (there is a threads some where titled "the Mask" if interested in mask making)

Yes dicers used tennis shoes of coral boots 75 years ago !

Seems nothing is New - Only the materials and the people

Thanks for researching and posting - your efforts are appreciated

Sam Miller, 111

 
but he was either UDT or OSS so it should be allowed .

It’s Lloyd Bridges but your point stands, if anyone is allowed a mask on forehead it’s Mike Nelson.
 
@RainPilot

It’s Lloyd Bridges but your point stands, if anyone is allowed a mask on forehead it’s Mike Nelson.
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You apparently need glasses !

Never the less "You Made my day !" as Clint as Dirty Harry once stated ( or words to that effect)

Now time for a California breakfast an a walk on the beach with dog Lucky

SDM III
 
@RainPilot LOL! No, that isn't Lloyd Bridges, but looks a little bit like him. That's an authentic WW II photo of a UDT frogman in the Pacific.
 
Now that I have used them in both fresh & salt water, I don't think I will be going back to the Chucks any time soon. I even got some neoprene socks to replace my wet boots so I can use these when wet suit diving.

https://www.amazon.com/Salomon-Amphib-Cross-country-Black-Autobahn/dp/B0054TNALI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537885518&sr=8-1&keywords=salomon+men's+techamphibian+3&dpID=41n0qTRH7zL&preST=_SX395_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

My first pair of fins were some basic Aqualung, like the Express SS. OK at first, but if I did more than 2 dives, they started hurting the top of my feet. I recently switched to Apex RK3, which seem to have a roomier pocket, height wise. Do these water shoes have a thicker sole, mainly under the ball of your foot, like a tennis shoe, that would make the front part of your foot "thicker". I like the idea of a shoe, rather than a neoprene boot, but I don't want to get back to a tight fin due to the overall thickness of my foot/boot.
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/teric/

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