My AN/DP/Helitrox course

[victorzamora]

What sort of shape was the phone on after the dive?

Rectangular?

Kidding. Phone was totally fine. I actually forgot about it during the latter portion of the dive. I was reminded of it being in my pocket because it started ringing while we were on the dock.

 

[Jack Hammer]

I've forgotten my undergarments before and just dove with my street clothes in the drysuit. It's not ideal and not as warm as proper undergarments but wasnt a big deal for short dives (under an hour) in temps in the 60s.

 

[Marie13]

This weekend was tough - as I expected it would be. Now, off to practice. Back to Wazee next weekend with a friend for practice and fun dives.

Couldn’t do a valve drill with the Fourth Element Arctic one piece. It just wouldn’t stretch any more. One of the guys had the same issue with the one piece undersuit (from a different manufacturer) he had. A friend was there fun diving and said she had the same issue with one piece undies. She had to go to a two piece. I only had the one piece as that was the only Arctic option for the FE test center. I would be buying the two piece.

I definitely liked the warm of the Arctic with the X-Core vest under it. Wore my usual Thermal Fusion today. Had a She-P leak yesterday and so didn’t want to wear the peed on undies!

 

[Marie13]

when I first started cave diving there was a guy who always wore his jeans under his dry suit. Friggin weird. And I can’t imagine comfortable. He’d unzip for the pee valve

There’s a guy I see on the boat sometimes who wears a button down shirt and jeans under his drysuit. Looks uncomfortable as hell.

 

[-JD-]

There’s a guy I see on the boat sometimes who wears a button down shirt and jeans under his drysuit. Looks uncomfortable as hell.

OK. That gets me to thinking of 007 walking out of the water with a water-mushroom cloud in the background, peeling out of of his drysuit with a full Tux on underneath, and walking into the casino ...

 

[formernuke]

OK. That gets me to thinking of 007 walking out of the water with a water-mushroom cloud in the background, peeling out of of his drysuit with a full Tux on underneath, and walking into the casino ...

I told my local dive club we needed to do this as a competition dive, the person who looks the closest to when they got in wins.

 

[abnfrog]

wasn't that a an ARNOLD movie ? I think it was a Viking

 

[Jack Hammer]

wasn't that a an ARNOLD movie ? I think it was a Viking

It was both and equally well played each time.

 

[kensuf]

I don’t recommend diving with your sunglasses stuffed into your cleavage under your drysuit. I had stuck them in there to keep them safe when using the pit toilet (can pee standing up with She-P! Woot!), but I had forgotten they were there. Imagine my surprise when I pulled them out after the dive.

I once left a cell phone in my drysuit undergarments pocket. Battery never worked right after that....

 

[Marie13]

Dove with another SBer yesterday. He shall remain nameless unless he decides to out himself. Got a lot of great feedback. Got weighting decent with my new undies combo (FE X-Core vest, 250 gram Smart Wool, and polypro base layer). Decided to splurge on a Thermolution heated vest and ordered the X-Core as well (was still using the loaner from DRIS). Once the weighting was fixed, then trim really improved. Dives were much better than for class last weekend, when weighting was off and that affected everything. Instructor told me to work on buoyancy and trim first, then valve drills, so those are next week when the local quarry opens.