Do you want to dive with Paris hilton, well may be next time you go in your next blonde-padi-specialty you will find out that your sexy-rich-hot female divemaster is Paris Hilton…

PADI? SSI? Scuba Girl for sure… meet Eva Longoria as a panick diver?  For sure one of the most sexy scuba girls of all time..

So after more than 100 hours googl”ing’ info about scuba Watches, and reading tons of reviews… I found the coolest, and most sexy scuba diving watch for my wife . Ladies meet the latest in Scuba Diving Fashion: The Submersion Mid .

what I love of this dive watch is that it is in fact a Scuba diving Watch, but it has the elegance that you need in a normal watch. It doesn’t look like any of that bulky watches that scream : hey look at me! I’m a diver…

“Women’s performance dive watch with an edge. Don’t let the Submersion fool you, it’sa full blown dive watch depth rated to 200 meters. Like all Freestyle Watches, The Submersion Mid is backed by a Limited Lifetime Warranty and 200 meter water resistance. Ride with them till death.”

Check more info at :
http://www.freestyleusa.com/products/Dive/Submersion+Mid/#

This is a photo of the ideal sexy female diver… is that right? What do you think. Is this the perfect sexy woman scuba girl ?

I assumed it was a female BCD, because the colour co-ordinated sizing was token pink. But that was about the limit. The main throwback? Being squeezed. Fully inflated meant fully squished, simply because the design was not sculpted around a womans curves.

So, scuba girls have special needs and requirements? Hips, boobs, back and waist; the ultimate trial.

Why not just deal with it? Be squeezed, dug into etc, and just wear a mens BCD. For years, that was the deal. Even doing a Course, or renting gear, it too can be the deal. I’ve read of scuba girls who have nearly given up diving due to the lack of comfort issue. Near frustration can do that.

I’ll ask the question again;

Do marketers really understand scuba girls needs?

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I’m just gonna run these off. Generalisations I know, and there will always be exceptions, but some will hit home. Everyone’s thinking it!

1. Scubagirls don’t have that macho, cowboy, risk taking, ‘lets impress our mates’ thing happening. Their dives are well within the limits, performed carefully and safely, with no corner cutting.
2. Regarding customers, I’d say in general a gentler manner. With students especially. Sometimes it can be almost motherly to young divers. And much less intimidating to new divers on the scene. New scubagirls will immediately let themselves be taken under her wing.

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So I just read an article about shark shields on scubaherald created mainly for surfers. A lot of people have a thing about sharks, and inventing a so-called shark shield (a device designed to repel sharks using electrodes underwater) will no doubt ease a lot of minds. But thats just it! Easing minds? If buyers believe it works, it creates a comfort zone that wouldn’t exist otherwise. As it is the shark shield isn’t on the market yet. But what I’m trying to say is, scuba girls, it is one big ocean after all, and we are just another fish in the sharks habitat. I don’t reckon its worth dwelling on it. BUT if the item does indeed ease you or your customers minds, maybe its worth having a shark shield if it makes people relax and enjoy diving!

‘Ahh, I just love the smell of wetsuits in the morning!’ My buddy closed his eyes and inhaled deeply walking through the door. It was one minute past nine, and staff were still in the process of switching the dive centre sign around to open.

We were the first customers of the day.

Random though that comment seemed, it did hold a grain of truth. Wetsuits do have a subtle smell. And in a world where our five human senses get culled once underwater, smell being one of the main ones, you come to recognise fragrances on land with that bit more respect.

Salt water does have a particular fragrance, as does stagnant water. Though ‘stench’ may be a more apt synonym for that one.

But underwater? Nothing. It can smell like the delicate scent of the inside of our masks, whether that be toothpaste or antifog. But apart from that, we cannot smell a thing! It’s probably a good thing. If you dive girls have ever smelt a dead fish, or kelp that’s been on the shore for a while, you’ll know why. But imagine if that sense remained with us at depth. Sniff, sniff…oh, here comes a turtle.

Because different plants and fish probably do have their own aroma, just like flowers on land. And…well…skunks.

Not only does smell aid our other senses in being, it is also the primary sense related to memory. ‘Tabu’ perfume, cut grass, wood smoke. All bring with them a certain reminder, an image in the mind. It will vary from person to person. Nanna, Summer and Winter. That’s mine. So how underwater should it be any different for us scuba girls? Apart from that our noses aren’t designed to inhale when surrounded by any other element except air. (I know. I’ve tried it. My sinuses were clear for days.)

And I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s noticed the flood of aromas that hit us after a dive. Shampoo that lingers under our removed hood. Boat engine fumes. And wetsuit wash. They were always there anyway. But post-dive they seem that bit stronger. And it has to be because that olfactory function is halted for the duration of the dive.

In a world where humans are categorized by those five particulars, then underwater we scuba girls must become something else. But it doesn’t matter, or bother us. By losing those things we gain others. Lack of gravity for instance. I’m not complaining!

This scuba girl has sampled three. One was a little number I like to call ‘the instant bruise’. The other resembled a workman’s tool belt. But the grand prize winner was ‘Bright Weights’ with their cute slogan swim like a fish. Think small individual weights, rounded at the edges that can fit a dive girls body’s contours easily. If it didn’t have to be so heavy, I’d say it was comfy.

Weightbelts. Yes a necessity in dive gear.

The first weightbelt I used was the standard belt that the great lead chunks slide onto. The things slip around the belt, clang on the tank, and are just plain awkward. It’s not only frustrating, it’s painful, and totally unsuitable for a female diver.

The only other time I’ve ever had bruises like that, was in one of those rides at the show where you are strapped into a little booth, and are slammed against the side as the thing throws you in rotations through the air, while you hope the thing was serviced recently.

Enter Bright Weights. The makers have realised that individual body shapes need different arrangements of weights, not just different total mass. They’ve also noticed something else about us dive girls. Yes we have hips! Each individual half kilogram piece can be positioned to suit any shape, and they won’t slip, or shift, or all gather on one side, as the weights slide into the belt, rather than onto it. They even have harness versions, and individual holsters for additional pocket weights, for BCD’s that function with integrated systems.

The final draw card. The belt even features a tiny stainless steel loop and miniature weight-shaped keyring to slip spare ‘o-rings’ onto. Ingenious. Such a small, yet handy and often ‘saveth the day’ edition to an already relevant piece of equipment in a scuba girls toolkit.