Hunting the beaches here in Daytona Beach has turned up some nice finds but I've been told by some long time local hunters that the BEST stuff is usually found in the water during the winter months when the seas stir up the bottom. So I dropped several hints to my lovely wife that for my birthday (21 with 30 yrs experience) I really wanted a wetsuit. I'd been telling her that I really needed one so that I could hunt the water and find all that jewelry for her. Well, today we went to a local dive shop to find one. First off, the salesman (very patient)showed me a one piece-suit that has the zipper in the back, explaining that this style is very popular. Now I'm 5'7" tall and 180 lbs so he hands me a Medium and off to the changing room I go. I struggled and struggled and cursed and tugged and pulled but couldn't get the $*#! thing past my thighs. Then he handed me a Large and back to the changing room I go. More struggling and pulling and finally got the suit on. But wait, I can't reach the zipper even though it has a long pull strap on it. I'm sweating like a stuck pig. Now I know what women go through trying to get into that girdle!!! Out to the show room I go where my wife & the salesman try to keep from busting a gut laughing while they pull up the back zipper. Darn if I don't look like a pregnant guppy. Anyway, it's too tight a fit and I'm thinking that I really might need to move up to an XL size. So back to the changing room to take it off. But wait, I can't reach that %$*& zipper (how do women reach theirs ?) so my wife comes back and helps me peel off the suit.
We decide that MAYBE I'd be better off with a 2 piece-suit with the zipper in front. We find the last 2 piece-suit on the rack. And Thank GOD it fits!!! By now I think that I've worked off at least 5 pounds.
Anyway, to make a long story longer, we decide that this is the suit for me and I also pick out a pair of booties. I'm beginning to think that maybe I'm getting a tad too serious about this hobby, but heck if there's gold in the water, I want a chance to get it.
So if you're at Daytona Beach and see something that resembles a whale thrashing in the surf, don't call Greenpeace or try to pull it back into deeper water, it's just a crazy old treasure hunter !!!
My New Years Resolution is to shift a few pounds........
Happy New Year,
Stirling, N5PIP
Daytona Beach
We decide that MAYBE I'd be better off with a 2 piece-suit with the zipper in front. We find the last 2 piece-suit on the rack. And Thank GOD it fits!!! By now I think that I've worked off at least 5 pounds.
Anyway, to make a long story longer, we decide that this is the suit for me and I also pick out a pair of booties. I'm beginning to think that maybe I'm getting a tad too serious about this hobby, but heck if there's gold in the water, I want a chance to get it.
So if you're at Daytona Beach and see something that resembles a whale thrashing in the surf, don't call Greenpeace or try to pull it back into deeper water, it's just a crazy old treasure hunter !!!
My New Years Resolution is to shift a few pounds........
Happy New Year,
Stirling, N5PIP
Daytona Beach