Sun Jul 17, 2005 2:39 pm
Hello, does anyone still make the old time tube covers we used to use when shore diving (Aqua Craft). They slipped over about a 15 inch car tube. Some had a mesh bottom and some were solid nylon. Most were orange or yellow and also had a top cover with zipper and a holder for a dive flag. Recently while dragging my dive flag around Table Rock, it is the kind that uses a swim noodle with lead counterbalance weight, I decided that the flag spent more time in the water than above it. Also, BIG DISADVANTAGE, the old tubes could be used as a resting place/surface float for us no-BC divers and that swim noodle thing does not serve this need at all. I can easily drag my Ocean Kayak ( which is a superior dive vessel) but cannot carry it on the Whaler. Dragging the Whaler is not going to happen so when diving from the boat or from shore a tube would be great and portable enough to carry on the boat etc. I like being tethered to a flag, my wife can see where I am and the supposed safety of the flag follows you to ward off boaters. I used to have several of these and have no idea where they went off to. James