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Diving Fashion Makes Scuba Diving Even Cooler

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Talking about diving fashion is talking about technological innovations brought to life. Diving equipment has evolved significantly since its inception, which has led to it becoming a popular sport that more and more people want to practice.

 

Diving Fashion Makes Diving Trendy

Diving is a sports activity that invites people of all ages to discover the underwater world. Fortunately, technological evolution applied to diving equipment has allowed more and more people to explore the depths.

Fashion has to do with personal expression in the way you dress. It is associated with three essential factors, which are style, color, and material. The diving fashion, however, adds a fourth element: technological evolution. Only with it and thanks to it, very recently, the other three aspects have importance.

Diving Fashion Evolution

Although our ancestors already used snorkeling-like gadgets for diving. In 1462, Leonardo Da Vinci thought about what would be necessary to be able to dive underwater. He made a first sketch of the diving suit. The suit was a hooded leather jumpsuit, which included two glasses for viewing. Two bamboo poles protruded from the hood, starting from the diver’s mouth and rising to the surface. Also, there were two sandbags tied to the waist as ballast.

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This suit never became a trend. In fact, nobody wore it. However, the genius did not imagine the potential that his idea would have. What seemed crazy at first is now a flourishing industry with millions of fans. Since that first idea, diving fashion has evolved to have suits and equipment perfectly adapted to the underwater experience.

Barrels with a porthole from which the arms protruded and fed with air from the surface, the first wooden diving suits, later made of metal. Leaded leather diving suits and the first waterproof canvas suits were the forerunners of the comfortable neoprene we wear today. Notice that the first rubber suits appeared in the 1930s. That’s how new diving fashion is.

As for autonomous diving. It was in 1831, when a machinist on the East River in Brooklyn, Mister Condert, designed and manufactured the first useful autonomous equipment. In it, fabric and rubber were mixed. The air was placed in a tank on the back and reached the diver by a valve.

In 1863 Cato Mc Keen built a compressed air tank in bronze, but it did not achieve a continuous flow. Luis Boután did it, managing pressure in the air charge.

Paul Gaston Yves Le Prieur invented a manual regulator, enhanced by Georges Commeinhes at 1.937. But the true driving forces behind scuba diving were Jaques Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan with their Aqua-lung. The regulator was the soul of this equipment, which made the air reach the lungs at the same pressure as the diver was. The Aqua-lung had two tubes coupled to the regulator, one to inspire the air and a second for evacuating the exhaled air.  Believe us when we tell you that this device set the diving fashion for a long time until modern regulators appeared.

It seems that the more evolved, more lightweight, and practical self-contained breathing has made wetsuits more adapted to the needs of protection of the heat of the body in each environment, forgetting the discomfort of the breathing system. Thus, arose neoprene and a new diving fashion: suits of different thicknesses and lengths depending on how cold the water was.

Since neoprene is a black material, that has been the official color of scuba fashion for years. Now, technology allows us to wear wet suits of different colors, following the precepts of any chic person: distinguish yourself by style, even underwater.

Also, diving accessories have changed significantly. The snorkel, already used 5,000 years ago, were hollow rods. Now they are plastic tubes made of silicone. The first diving goggles were of polished tortoiseshell. Now, we use colorful tempered glass masks with anti-scratch protection. There was a time when full-vision monocular masks were fashionable. However, binoculars masks are trending now. Black rubber scuba fins have given way to the explosion of neon colors of carbon fibers and compact plastics.  We cannot forget electrical devices, wrist dive computers, gauges, acoustic signals, etc.

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Diving fashion - la moda del buceo - da vinci

It seems that the more evolved, more lightweight, and practical self-contained breathing has made wetsuits more adapted to the needs of protection of the heat of the body in each environment, forgetting the discomfort of the breathing system. Thus, arose neoprene and a new diving fashion: suits of different thicknesses and lengths depending on how cold the water was.

Since neoprene is a black material, that has been the official color of scuba fashion for years. Now, technology allows us to wear wet suits of different colors, following the precepts of any chic person: distinguish yourself by style, even underwater.

Also, diving accessories have changed significantly. The snorkel, already used 5,000 years ago, were hollow rods. Now they are plastic tubes made of silicone. The first diving goggles were of polished tortoiseshell. Now, we use colorful tempered glass masks with anti-scratch protection. There was a time when full-vision monocular masks were fashionable. However, binoculars masks are trending now. Black rubber scuba fins have given way to the explosion of neon colors of carbon fibers and compact plastics.  We cannot forget electrical devices, wrist dive computers, gauges, acoustic signals, etc.

Diving Fashion: Tell Everyone You Are a Diver

If diving is a trend, there is nothing cooler than bragging about being a diver. How do you tell everyone that you are?

  1. Sharing your photos on social networks.
  2. With diving fashion items that can be worn during surface intervals: T-shirts, sweatshirts, glasses, caps, wallets and even thermos for water.

By the way, do you already know the Dressel Divers diving fashion store? Click on the link and visit it.

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