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Snooz
·Very interesting thread - I don't dive, but if I did i'd use a Citizen or Seiko....for swimming my goto watch in the past few years has been the Citizen Promaster BN0150 - cheap and reliable!
Diveable Vintage Dive Watch?
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wagudc
·You can damn well bet my Adventure People wear their watches when they dive !!
And holy moly - I just noticed after 40+ years they’re wearing them as lefties. I knew I liked these cats for more than their can-do attitude.
Love your contributions to this thread. It has been many years since I have been diving, but I didn't know semi-dry suits were a thing. I used to dive in the Seattle area where 50deg or lower surface temps were the norm. We wore 7mm farmer john shorty setups and froze are ass off. The go-to spot was Edmunds underwater park which is a neat reserve that is quite shallow. We ran out of air or hypothermia set in before we got close to the no-decompression limits, so tables were it. I had adventure people growing up, they were cool. I loved the octopus. I wish I had them for my kids when they were young. Hard to get toys these days that don't require batteries.
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Kiltie
·Love your contributions to this thread. It has been many years since I have been diving, but I didn't know semi-dry suits were a thing. I used to dive in the Seattle area where 50deg or lower surface temps were the norm. We wore 7mm farmer john shorty setups and froze are ass off. The go-to spot was Edmunds underwater park which is a neat reserve that is quite shallow. We ran out of air or hypothermia set in before we got close to the no-decompression limits, so tables were it. I had adventure people growing up, they were cool. I loved the octopus. I wish I had them for my kids when they were young. Hard to get toys these days that don't require batteries.
Thanks!
I'd say "semi dry" was a bit of a misnomer. That's what the suits are advertised as, but its' pretty much a 7mm wetsuit with more...better?... cuffs at the wrists, ankles, and collar that keep your warm water from recycling better than a run of the mill wetsuit. There's no air or anything. I can do 50F water temp - give or take 5 - for about thirty minutes, SI, then maybe another twenty/twenty-five before it isn't fun anymore.
Adventure people were the best, and the octopus was indeed killer diller, along with the Diver Dan guy with the deep sea helmet. The fireman ( I called him Sam ) was my best friend until my brother was old enough to play with me, but I had a lot of those little guys over the years. The stuntmen, forest ranger, safari, space shuttle...
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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...Love your contributions to this thread. It has been many years since I have been diving, but I didn't know semi-dry suits were a thing. I used to dive in the Seattle area where 50deg or lower surface temps were the norm. We wore 7mm farmer john shorty setups and froze are ass off. The go-to spot was Edmunds underwater park which is a neat reserve that is quite shallow. We ran out of air or hypothermia set in before we got close to the no-decompression limits, so tables were it. I had adventure people growing up, they were cool. I loved the octopus. I wish I had them for my kids when they were young. Hard to get toys these days that don't require batteries.
A good 2 piece farmer John is almost as good as a semi dry. The 14mm through the body is nice.
Semi dry as noted is more marketing but it has better seals at the neck and wrist/ankle openings. Plus they are normally zipper closed with a water proof zipper. They prevent less shipping of water through the neck, and normally are made of much better types of neoprene that compress less and retain more heat.
I finally gave up my farmer John setup a few years ago. Outside the neck opening the better quality neoprene is what truly makes the difference.
