You know you're a scuba diver when...

[HilaryRN71]

11/28/2005 - TOP 10 WAYS TO KNOW YOU'RE A HARD CORE CHICK DIVER

10. You buy dive gear if it's on sale, whether you need it or not.

9. You actually own something with a crotch strap. AND you will wear it in public.

8. Your dress clothes at the back of your closet smell like Neoprene from being next to one of your three wetsuits.

7. You custom order ankle weights to match the trim on your dry-suit.

6. Tipping the DM with a wink and a phone number gets you special treatment on a dive boat.

5. You've ever slept on a boat with 20 men...and just slept. Really.

4.You have almost as many fins as pairs of shoes.

3. You've ever given yourself a pedicure on a surface interval.

2. You've ever asked anyone, "Does this wetsuit make my butt look big?"

AND..the Number One way to know you're a hard core chick diver...

1. You've ever seen a fellow diver gearing up and you ACTUALLY thought to yourself, "Damn his *** looks good in a drysuit."

 

[SparticleBrane]

...if you find yourself giving the OK sign to non-divers and expecting them to understand...

 

[tracy_from_oz]

when you buy a new piece of gear, or are land locked for more than 24 hrs, and get kitted up to try it out in the shower. reg in mouth, breathing away for 20 mins with the water running and thinking is it ok to log this time.

 

[Diver_Wulf]

When you pay $30,000 for a new truck but cant haul anything in the bed because its full of tank racks

 

[superstar]

when you and all your dive buddies want to wear matching red and white dive flag speedos

 

[Kwbyron]

LOL awsome superstar!!
How about when 11% of your budget one year went to dive gear and training!
Edit-11 not 21...oops

 

[sasscuba]

When you dream of the new gear you just bought...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[IceIce]

When you almost pee in your pants when the urge come.
When you think fake tan is the most stupid thing someone can do.
When you fall sick, first thing you worry is whether it will affect the ear equalization.
No budget for holiday without water.
When you wave at the fish.
Get excited with everything related to diving.
Re-run diving related movie only to see their equipment configuration.
When you start to breath, not with nose.
When you start a new job, the first things your worries are whether you are able to apply leave.
You NEVER pass by a dive shop without going in, and the shopkeeper knows you.
When you use a pencil and try to browse your colleague's hair to look for crinoid guests.

someone yells shark and you run TOWARDS the water.

Love this one.

 

[diverdan214]

when you can talk about going down and penetration without giggling or associating it with sex.

Guess I'm not a diver then...

when you use the "ok" hand signal on land ALL THE TIME.

Yeah also when you're very confused by a "thumbs up" ok on land.

...when you've spent more on a drysuit than you spent on a car.

Yeah me too, although now after having to get it fixed not so much.

 

[ClayJar]

...your small car has only one seat, but can stack six tanks where the passenger seat used to be, a large wet bin where the back seat used to be, and still have plenty of room for a tent, duffel bag, food, and surface interval diversions.

...you catch yourself thinking that all it would take is some red adhesive vinyl to turn your white car into a giant diver-down flag.

...you catch youself wondering whether a red-and-white diver down flag car is enough, or should you make the hood an international alpha, just in case.

...you consider operating hours before you consider the price of gasoline when you're deciding which spring, lake, quarry, or park to dive.

...your refrigerator only contains one large jar of pickles, but you tell yourself that you have plenty of rice left as you order a new pair of fins.

...your significant buddy goes overseas for work for a year, and you console yourself by noting that you should have enough time between visits to make divemaster.