Darryl Bowerman
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How could anyone forget the SCUDA.......
Self Contained Underwater Drinking Appartus...Ah the memories....
Self Contained Underwater Drinking Appartus...Ah the memories....
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Eskasi:I am a real Noob......
To summarise, I am the bright orange shovel noob which this thread is about.
HOWEVER, I am comfortable with what I have...I got all this because of comfort and a sense of security (which is what I thought diving was about)....yes, some stuff will end up in the closet and get no use eventually.....but for now, with the little experence that I have, I like the idea of all these shovels on me (as long as I am not dragging the crap on the reefs and destroying the envioronment- or risking getting tangled)
To me, an Orange Shovel was bought by those who thought there was some utility and convinience to carrying one, only later to realize that it was redundant and removed it from their gear. There will always be some people though who rather use the shovel as opposed to a stick. To each man his own. He may laugh at me one day as he uses his shovel to dig his hole and all I can find are twigs to use. This is why I wouldn't laugh at them and call them silly noobs or fad junkies.
AMEN, BUDDY, AMEN!
Phenol:Here's a true Orange Shovel: a large slate.
I should have done like my wiser buddy and initially gone for a small slate, but I thought: hey, you never know when you'll need to map a huge wreck, write an epic to your buddy, or sketch a fish at 1:1 scale for later ID, right? And of course, you'll need a big plastic spinnaker to do long division at 90' during your AOW Deep Dive, right?
But it was annoying to dive with, so it ended up staying in the gear bag 99% of the time.
Go suck an egg...Eskasi:.
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As Money was no object really, I decided to get the best...
muddiver:Tht's why old school divers, who feel they might need to write underwater, know that the best slate is the side you cut out of a bleach bottle and bungeed to your forearm. A #2 writes on it just fine.
Doug B:There are 'orange shovels' in nearly every hobby it seems.
Nope. Even when I rode 200 miles a week, I refused to shave my legs.
I've got the orange whistle (on d-ring on the back of my BC). AND, I like my mesh back pack for my gear.
My other hobby is flying radio controlled airplanes. Been doing that for nearly 20 years now - far more than half my life. The orange shovel in that hobby is the obvious newbie trainer-airplane, ultra clean tool tote with nothing more than a screw driver or two, and brand new fuel pump and scratchless glow plug battery.
Ride Hard, Dive Hard, Fly Harder.