yellow

[piling pete]

HI all
First post so please be kind. The question i have is apart from not looking cool why do dir divers not wear head to toe yellow ? .Reading some posts safety is gone in to with a fine tooth comb but surely wearing black is possibly the worst colour you can wear
Pete

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by piling pete

First post so please be kind. The question i have is apart from not looking cool why do dir divers not wear head to toe yellow ? .Reading some posts safety is gone in to with a fine tooth comb but surely wearing black is possibly the worst colour you can wear

You are trying to preserve your night vision in a cave or a wreck.
You swing your torch accidentally across your bright yellow buddy.
The line vanishes...

[Lou]

Why would you be trying to preserve your night vision whilst using bloody great HID torches?

Yellow is great for being seen on the surface, but it isn't a cool colour, and visibility at the surface is not really something that I have ever seen considered by many divers, but especially not in DIR discussions. It probably falls into the same camp as EPIRBS, flags and PLB's. If you need them then you have done something wrong earlier and should have been concentrating on avoiding doing that, rather than how you get out of the final poo.

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by Lou

Why would you be trying to preserve your night vision whilst using bloody great HID torches?

Yellow is great for being seen on the surface, but it isn't a cool colour, and visibility at the surface is not really something that I have ever seen considered by many divers, but especially not in DIR discussions. It probably falls into the same camp as EPIRBS, flags and PLB's. If you need them then you have done something wrong earlier and should have been concentrating on avoiding doing that, rather than how you get out of the final poo.

Aw come on. Use that argument once too often and we would say goodbye to ditchable weight, seatbelts, airbags, O2, Deco chambers, ABS, guards on machines, ropes for climbers etc etc.

You're right about the torches too - if losing night vision was a problem you'd have to fit a red filter to it.

Here's a yellow suit in otherwise complete darkness, illuminated by a HID, note there's no bloom in the video, as you'd expect if that was going to be a problem.



I think it's just fashion, pure & simple.

Baaaaah baaaaaah.

And don't forget, this was fashionable once:



How cool are those black suits?

[piling pete]

So should it be diruidnlc (do it right unless it dose not look cool)

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by piling pete

So should it be diruidnlc (do it right unless it dose not look cool)

Careful son. It's dangerous in here, you could get us all killed saying stuff like that.

[royplumber]

welcome pete why the name !

pilling pete

[RichW]

Originally Posted by piling pete

HI all
First post so please be kind. The question i have is apart from not looking cool why do dir divers not wear head to toe yellow ? .Reading some posts safety is gone in to with a fine tooth comb but surely wearing black is possibly the worst colour you can wear
Pete

Pete,

I'm not sure why yellow would be any more "safe" than any other colour. Underwater, we use lights to communicate and maintain visual contact. If the visibility is very bad, then we have the option of using touch contact. The lights are far more visible than any suit colour. Add to that the fact that cylinders are usually white or yellow, and you're pretty visible anyway.

On the surface, it's not really any value to have a bright suit, as most of it is underwater anyway. DSMB's are bright orange with reflective tape so can be easily seen as well.

Hope that helps,

Rich

[Keith Whittaker]

I have no idea if its true or not but i have been told that large bitey things tend to be attracted to yellow.


IIRC there are a few bright yellow suits on show in some of the PADI DVD's

[piling pete]

I work for a sheet piling firm and my name is pete
if its not to forward what is your name/job