Last minute shopping--what's the best Scuba gift?

[mz53480]

Here goes....
What's the best SCUBA gift to get...(or give)?
(All budgets considered, batteries included,...blah blah blah)


MZ

[Sounder]

Here goes....
What's the best SCUBA gift to get...(or give)?
(All budgets considered, batteries included,...blah blah blah)


MZ

A mega-yacht with complete crew, fully stocked with both OC and CCR gear, a compressor with ample helium, posh accomidations, a submarine, two helicopters, a swim-up bar, multiple tenders.... basically, Paul Allen's Octopus with increased emphasis on diving.

[Sounder]

Here goes....
What's the best SCUBA gift to get...(or give)?
(All budgets considered, batteries included,...blah blah blah)


MZ

Best gift to give? A high-performance (working) regulator when your buddy needs it most.

[mz53480]

Here goes....
What's the best SCUBA gift to get...(or give)?

A mega-yacht with complete crew, fully stocked with both OC and CCR gear, a compressor with ample helium, posh accomidations, a submarine, two helicopters, a swim-up bar, multiple tenders.... basically, Paul Allen's Octopus with increased emphasis on diving.

Mine is the little white one on the lower left.....

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[Diver_C]

No-fog stuff for mask
Fill card
High capacity rechargeable batteries with or without fast charger (the 15 minute kind)
LED back-up light
New hood
Dry gloves

Good luck!

[Pez7378]

1) A lifetime supply of retractors and dangling coily retainer thingys
2) P-valve cleaning solution (I prefer Urolux)
3) Zipper wax
4) The big tub of silicone lube
5) O-ring kit
6) Regulator bag
7) Slap strap for masks
8) Spare mask
9) Wetnotes
10) All expenses paid trip to the Red Sea on the M/V Tala next October (just in case you were shopping for me!)

[airsix]

A mega-yacht with complete crew, fully stocked with both OC and CCR gear, a compressor with ample helium, posh accomidations, a submarine, two helicopters, a swim-up bar, multiple tenders.... basically, Paul Allen's Octopus with increased emphasis on diving.

You forgot the most important part: The operating budget. With choppers, crew, etc. it's easily more than $1MM a year. But I like how you think.

-Ben

[Penopolypants]

1. A toolbox or art supply kit filled with save-a-dive type stuff, such as tools (leatherman, allen and other type wrenches), o-rings, silicone lube, bike tire patches, zipper wax, seal saver, batteries, aquaseal and cotol, etc.
2. Air card (or an aquaholics membership )
3. Any gear, including a scooter! That should fit nicely into a stocking. I've often wished for another reg set, just to have a backup when mine is being serviced, or to loan out.
4. Critter ID books

[Fishstiq]

Best scuba gift? Probably a Salvo 10 watt focusable HID ... http://www.nwdiveclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6466


Seriously, it's just your size and everything...


I had to try.

[scottsax]

Best scuba gift? Probably a Salvo 10 watt focusable HID ... http://www.nwdiveclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6466


Seriously, it's just your size and everything...


I had to try.

Dude, if I didn't already have one, I'd be all over that like, well, ME on a cupcake.... I know somebody who might need it, though....

Best scuba gifts besides Joe's light?

1. Fill cards always are thoughtful stocking stuffer
2. Gift cards to your favorite shop.
3. Spring straps, mask straps
4. Save-a-dive kit
5. Costco-sized tub of KY

[Mattleycrue76]

A mega-yacht with complete crew, fully stocked with both OC and CCR gear, a compressor with ample helium, posh accomidations, a submarine, two helicopters, a swim-up bar, multiple tenders.... basically, Paul Allen's Octopus with increased emphasis on diving.

You forgot the most important part: The operating budget. With choppers, crew, etc. it's easily more than $1MM a year. But I like how you think.

-Ben

Acually It's more like $20 million a year to operate th Octopus http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/photos/05/octopus.ppt
At $4 dollars a gallon it would cost $897,00 just to fill the fuel tank

But hey It's christmas who wants to be a penny pincher? i wonder if they take VISA cards at the shipyard......

[LCF]

A very wide-mouthed, large thermos to keep hot water in for your hood, gloves and head.

Those lovely microfiber towels that soak up more than their weight in water, but fold up into nothing.

Tobin's (Deep Sea Supply) inflator tool and BC rinsing attachments.

An o-ring pick.

A gift certificate for the charter operator of your giftee's choice.

Scott Boyd's Wreck Dives of Puget Sound.

Any of a whole bunch of critter ID books.

True West dive parka.

Oh, and would somebody please give Pez that trip to the Red Sea? I need to fill the boat.

I could go on.

[pogiguy05]

I would settle for a custom made drysuit with weezle thermals.

To be adopted by sounder when he gets rich and buys that big ship.

[spatman]

Tobin's (Deep Sea Supply) inflator tool and BC rinsing attachments.

wow, thanks, lynne. i had no idea tobin made a rinsing attachment. getting a couple hanukah presents for myself right now.

[Joshua Smith]

Here goes....
What's the best SCUBA gift to get...(or give)?
(All budgets considered, batteries included,...blah blah blah)


MZ

A mega-yacht with complete crew, fully stocked with both OC and CCR gear, a compressor with ample helium, posh accomidations, a submarine, two helicopters, a swim-up bar, multiple tenders.... basically, Paul Allen's Octopus with increased emphasis on diving.

Already picked my Christmas present out. Anybody wanna show me how much they love this site? I mean, really show me? It can be fitted with a hyperbaric lockout chamber......



http://www.ussubs.com/submarines/phoenix_1000.php3

[spatman]

Already picked my Christmas present out. Anybody wanna show me how much they love this site? I mean, really show me? It can be fitted with a hyperbaric lockout chamber......

http://www.ussubs.com/submarines/phoenix_1000.php3

my present from my nwdc fans won't be nearly as expensive as yours, josh, but you're welcome to dock your sub there anytime.

[Zen Diver]

Duct Tape and Zip Ties. You can fix just about anything with 'em (at least for awhile...)
And, they both come in RED!
-Valerie

[BigFameOne]

All I want is to befriend Spatman, and Joshua Smith in particular when the sub and the island work out.


Okay now in an attempt to actually be helpful, might I suggest one of those giant like 5 gallon gatorade keg style coolers, for hot water on cold dive days?

They sell them at Hertz Equipment Rental on 4th and Dawson in Seattle.

[pogiguy05]

Now this is just a suggestion but I took a 96 gallon garbage can and got an outdoor faucet and some rings(just like O rings) from the repair section of Lowes. I drilled a hole the same size as the faucet and put the O rings on each side and tightened down the plactic nut and there you have a large rinse container that you can also starp down in the back of a truck bed. I use it on those long hauls. I keep telling myself to just turn the faucet upside down and get one of those water bed adapters so that i can fill it with hot water. Then add a small hose and you can have about 96 gallons of water to warm up or rinse gear.

[Maverick]

Now this is just a suggestion but I took a 96 gallon garbage can and got an outdoor faucet and some rings(just like O rings) from the repair section of Lowes. I drilled a hole the same size as the faucet and put the O rings on each side and tightened down the plactic nut and there you have a large rinse container that you can also starp down in the back of a truck bed. I use it on those long hauls. I keep telling myself to just turn the faucet upside down and get one of those water bed adapters so that i can fill it with hot water. Then add a small hose and you can have about 96 gallons of water to warm up or rinse gear.

are you sure you don't mean a 36gal. I use a 55gal and it's huge

[Biodiversity_Guy]

Going back to the original thread: One or more coupons for a day of charter diving in the San Juans <grins>.

[Biodiversity_Guy]

Going back to the original thread: One or more coupons for a day of charter diving in the San Juans <grins>.

Excellent memories and positive life experiences make the best long term presents.

[airsix]

Going back to the original thread: One or more coupons for a day of charter diving in the San Juans <grins>.

Excellent memories and positive life experiences make the best long term presents.

I think this is the best reality-based suggestion yet. :smt038
-Ben

[BigFameOne]

How about a coupon for one of airsix's knives when they hit the market?

[Fishstiq]

Okay, the True West dive parka is freaking awesome. That's not a want, that's a NEED.