Gear purchases you DON’T regret

[elgoog]

- Drysuit
- Double tanks
- DPV

 

[rhwestfall]

Long and X-Long BP's....
Going to a BP/W
My various (brand and size) wings...
Custom Wet Suit
Custom Dry Suit
Zip Seals on above dry suit
Shearwaters (despite that I got a Petrel1 and a week later the Petrel2 came out.... also got a Pedrix AI and the Terric very shortly came out)
Long Hose Configured Regs
Argonaut Kraken DH
Vintage Plate
VDH 18# Wing
Dry Gloves (DRIS ring and "barn glove" system)
MAKO hard float/flag
All my various regs.. (modern and vintage)
Steel Tanks
Spring Straps
Pocket Shorts
XS Scuba Weight Pouches

Outcome Yet to be determined: the compressor I am currently implementing

 

[DanielRJones]

http://imgur.com/gallery/RzyoLho

My pink alu 11

 

[jadairiii]

All my Apeks regs
Halcyon wings
but specifically my Suex 37 scooter. That thing is a beast

 

[JBFG]

Perdrix
Fusion dry suit
DGX low profile mask
BP/W mid and match
Xdeep sidemount system

 

[JamesBon92007]

Maybe it’s a “woman thing”?

Do you have a picture you can post? That sounds like something my girlfriend would really like She's tried something but I don't know if it would be called a "beanie."

 

[emoreira]

My list is long :
Dacor 900 + Dacor Pacer refurbished
Henderson 5 mm Farmer John
Sea Elite Scout Travel BCD
Scubapro MK25 + A700 + R095 used
SUBEA (Decathlon) 5 mm gloves
Cressi Matrix mask
Cressi Frog fins
Oceanic Compass
Oceanic VEO 180NX PDC

All of them with almost 10 years with me and without faults.

 

[PfcAJ]

DUI FLX drysuit
Suex XK1 scooter
Halcyon RB80 rebreather

These items let me do so much underwater. Great pieces of kit.

Shearwater Perdix is also fantastic.

 

[Ojai Diver]

Circa 1992:

Cressi sub Maxirondine fins: large, stiff, powerful, well made
U.S. Diver's Monitor 1 dive computer: Buhlmann based algorithm, no gimmicks, no b.s., never gets wiggy, still going strong

Circa 2014:

Deep Sea Supply backplate and wing: a great, minimal, sturdy bpw
Apeks spools: Pricey, but quality.
Halcyon SMB: as above.

 

[JamesBon92007]

White Stag Snorkel, purchased around 1966
Tris Inox Dive Knife, also purchased around '66
Aqua-Craft Bandito Speargun--also about '66
Cressi Occhio Mask--Sometime in the early 70s
Steel 72 tank
Sherwood Magnum Regulator--1983
Sherwood Console, SPG + Depth--bought with the reg
ScubaPro Lightning Jet Fins--bought after trying many other fins
More steel 72 tanks
Cornelius Compressor--we are about the same age

I am still using all of the above

More recently:
2.5mm full jumpsuit that has "Leader Accessories" silkscreened on it. Bought around 2012--brand new $30
SJ7000 Video Camera--not the greatest in the world, but not bad either
3mm soft booties from China for $4
LED flashlight from China for $4
Various regs and consoles and gauges from eBay for very little money that needed a little work