I wasn't sure whether I should post this in this forum, Lost and Found, or the Do It Yourself forum (those guys might be good at coming up with some creative uses for half a set of fins and boots.)
I recently lost some gear on a dive at Hanko, Finland. Mostly due to my own stupidity of diving with ill fitting fins for my DUI RockBoots...
I was swimming along just when I felt one of the fins slipping off; I tried to make a grab for it, but failed, and now it's somewhere in the silt and muck on the bottom. I must not have laced that boot correctly because shortly after calling the dive and "monofining" it back to the boat, the boot fell off.
I've since replaced the fins with XS Scuba Turtle Fins (XXXL) which fit like a glove on my one remaining RockBoot (US 12.) I've ordered a new set of RockBoots from my LDS, before I realized I could get them at almost half the price including shipping online (and they would have arrived already.)
Making this even more of a cluster !@#$ was my stupid decision to buy some "temporary" JetFins that would just fit over the drysuits attached neoprene sock, thinking I'd be making some dives before the new fins or boots arrived. Those fins haven't even touched water. Maybe those can go to the classifieds forum...
Anyone have similar stories? Ideas on what do you do with the "left overs?" Excessive use of the
emoticon? 
I recently lost some gear on a dive at Hanko, Finland. Mostly due to my own stupidity of diving with ill fitting fins for my DUI RockBoots...
I was swimming along just when I felt one of the fins slipping off; I tried to make a grab for it, but failed, and now it's somewhere in the silt and muck on the bottom. I must not have laced that boot correctly because shortly after calling the dive and "monofining" it back to the boat, the boot fell off.
I've since replaced the fins with XS Scuba Turtle Fins (XXXL) which fit like a glove on my one remaining RockBoot (US 12.) I've ordered a new set of RockBoots from my LDS, before I realized I could get them at almost half the price including shipping online (and they would have arrived already.)
Making this even more of a cluster !@#$ was my stupid decision to buy some "temporary" JetFins that would just fit over the drysuits attached neoprene sock, thinking I'd be making some dives before the new fins or boots arrived. Those fins haven't even touched water.
Maybe those can go to the classifieds forum...Anyone have similar stories? Ideas on what do you do with the "left overs?" Excessive use of the
emoticon? 
