Why leave your gauges and octopus dangling?

[Luc Dupas]

Of course, you can also buy a $10 clip for your SPG, and a $3 bungy cord loop for your octopus.
Then you're dangly free for $13, have less drag and far less chance of damaging your equipment or anything on the bottom where you dive.

Why even spend a penny for such clips? You can make them yourself for "no money" using a few cm of leftovers of pvc electra piping... see pictures (the text is in Dutch, sorry!) on http://www.torpedo.be/klem.html (the small one is perfectly suitable to grab/keep the hoses of your octo, spg, etc., the bigger one makes a great holder for your backup lamp).

 

[superstar]

Why even spend a penny for such clips? You can make them yourself for "no money" using a few cm of leftovers of pvc electra piping... see pictures (the text is in Dutch, sorry!) on http://www.torpedo.be/klem.html (the small one is perfectly suitable to grab/keep the hoses of your octo, spg, etc., the bigger one makes a great holder for your backup lamp).

brilliant!!!

 

[MikeyP]

I recently completed my OW course through SSI. I read the whole book and viewed all of the DVD with the exception of chapter 6 which was primarily a sales push, and I don't recall it dealing with this anywhere. My class instructor mentioned streamlining once in the pool (as in "I like to keep a streamlined profile when I dive") but never really elaborated. Nobody involved in our checkout dives mentioned this either. I can actually recall the octo clip being there on a couple of the shop BCs but I never knew what they were for until now. In retrospect it would have been a good question to ask but I tend to focus on the goal of the lesson when I'm getting in the pool or pounding surf.

In any case thanks for the tips everyone. I think I've learned as much browsing this board in the past two days as I did in my training.