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Pepper... if you dont mind me asking.... your age ?

 

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[oldmxrat]

Query: Good dive boots, Kevlar soles.
Such a thing?

I wear dive booties. They're tight enough around the ankles to keep out the debris. I use a pair with a treaded sole for sandy places and a pair with felt soles for the rivers where the rocks are slimy.

 

[ARC]

I wear dive booties. They're tight enough around the ankles to keep out the debris. I use a pair with a treaded sole for sandy places and a pair with felt soles for the rivers where the rocks are slimy.

Yes.... in water they do out perform most things..... EXCEPT... one of my feared things.... Hence why i also wear Tennis shoes in salt water.

Sting Ray.

 

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If you have never had the EXTREME PLEASURE of a sting ray whipping your foot and the following aftermath.........

You will scoff.

But IF YOU HAVE had that delightful litlle itsy bitsy teenie weenie experience...........

Then you now have a pit in your stomach and know wtf i speak.

 

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Sting Ray....

Will bring a grown man down quicker than a rattlesnake.

 

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Out of all the beasts....
It was the lowly little sting ray that did in the Crocodile Hunter.... Steve Irwin.... RIP

 

[pepperj]

Pepper... if you dont mind me asking.... your age ?

66 mid April

 

[pepperj]

I wear dive booties. They're tight enough around the ankles to keep out the debris. I use a pair with a treaded sole for sandy places and a pair with felt soles for the rivers where the rocks are slimy.

What brand?

 

[ARC]

66 mid April

So you have just around a decade on me.

 

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Looking at double nickels here.

 

[pepperj]

So you have just around a decade on me.

Retired 17 yrs next month.

 

[pepperj]

The guy that sold the scoop said he met a water hunter last year.
The guy was 84, dug like a young man still.
So there's hope yet.🤣

 

[Gulf Coast Pirate]

Retired 17 yrs next month.

I can't wait to retire!

 

[oldmxrat]

What brand?

Scubapro, good quality.

 

[oldmxrat]

They make short ones, but go with ankle high to keep the sand out. I had to find out the hard way.

 

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Yeah... i am not sure if ole neoprene booties would / could deflect a direct poke of that BARB.

My luck i would have a barb AND a Bootie STUCK in and on me.

Cant pull the barb out..... not from experience.... just know.... my "run in" with one was VERY minor.

But enough to say.... holy sh!t thats totally NOT what i thought it would be like.

I had very minor cut / slice to side of right foot.... 1 inch back from pinkie toe... perhaps 1/8th of an inch deep.
When i first lifted foot out of water and looked at it and saw a small little trickle of blood... i thought...
"oh good... damn that was close"

And less than 5 minutes later as i labored to exit the water and having trouble catching my breath and stumbled to help... and paramedics.

I then thought....

"F-ck !!! not close enough"

 

[Gulf Coast Pirate]

Scubapro, good quality.

My dad was an authorized Scubapro dealer in the 60s & 70s.

 

[pepperj]

I can't wait to retire!

It's great, then a person gets to do all the stuff they didn't have time for while they worked.
Like renovations, the Honey due list that has been ticking away for decades.
You're going to wonder after awhile, where did that year(s) go.
Seriously its great, just take time to smell the roses.

 

[Gulf Coast Pirate]

 

[oldmxrat]

Yeah... i am not sure if ole neoprene booties would / could deflect a direct poke of that BARB.

My luck i would have a barb AND a Bootie STUCK in and on me.

Cant pull the barb out..... not from experience.... just know.... my "run in" with one was VERY minor.

But enough to say.... holy sh!t thats totally NOT what i thought it would be like.

I had very minor cut / slice to side of right foot.... 1 inch back from pinkie toe... perhaps 1/8th of an inch deep.
When i first lifted foot out of water and looked at it and saw a small little trickle of blood... i thought...
"oh good... damn that was close"

And less than 5 minutes later as i labored to exit the water and having trouble catching my breath and stumbled to help... and paramedics.

I then thought....

"F-ck !!! not close enough"

I get the ones that have an extra thick toe 'cause I'm constantly stubbing my toes on things in the water, including my scoop.
They're as thick or thicker than most tennies.