Summer snorkel visitors need a sealing mask and a rash top or shorty. Autumn and winter divers need real rubber or a drysuit. Boats supply tanks.
A haenyeo-style weight belt is not a souvenir and not a first-day toy.
Core kit
- Mask that seals — Wind and chop on Udo.
- Exposure protection that matches the month — The whole kit argument.
- Fins for a short boat hop — Small kicks near islets.
- SMB if the shop says so — Seogwipo traffic.
- Ferry timetable (Udo) — Listed as kit.
- Card and log — Islet boats check them.
Optional
- Drysuit (winter) — A local hire, not a tropical assumption.
- Hood and gloves — Autumn.
- Tabis — Columnar and lava entries.
- Whistle — Beach snorkel with wind.
Care
- Rinse volcanic grit — Skirts leak.
- Dry a hired drysuit as the shop asks — It is their lung.
- No pocketing shells from a working coast — Labour and law.
- Check straps in wind — They fail on the quay.
Budget bands
- Udo day — Ferry, mask, sleeves.
- Seogwipo weekend — Two boat dives, a suit that fits the month.
- Winter — Drysuit hire is the line item.
- Skip — A carbon long-blade as a haenyeo costume.
Spend on the suit that matches the month. The islet can wait for a green harbour.