Our two cents on packing your scuba regulator for long haul travel.
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Packing Your Scuba Regulator For Travel
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Are you packing in your carry-on or in the hold?
How to pack a regulator? I wear mine around my neck like a necklace or neck tie
I pack my regs on carry on. It took quite sometime to find the perfect bag size and organisation to fit everything in. Then again, these are international flights with decent carry one luggage allowance. US flights are terrible lol
Jeez what a load of waffle. Bla Bla Bla
Computer – on my wrist.
Reg, wetsuit, mask, 1 day of clothing – carry on
I’m more concerned about them loosing the bag. Than damage.
I have had security at an airport refuse to let me take my regs in my hand luggage. They seemed to think it could be used as a weapon!
I had to run back to the check in desk to check my hand luggage into the hold, so I could fly,
That is part of the reason I put all my dive kit save my dive computer in my hold luggage – you just avoid any issues with an over-zealous security people!
My gear is brand new, so I’ll be carrying it myself. I’m sure I’ll get a lot less prissy with my gear as time goes on, and it’ll end up in my checked luggage eventually.
Believe me, it will end up in the hold sooner than you think when you start travelling to places with rubbish carry-on allowances…
I did both. First ever dive holliday, I checked my regs. Well cushioned inside my wetsuit, nothing to be afraid of happened. Still started to take them with me afterwards, as I don’t have lots of camera equipment. Now I‘ve bought a Peli-case, considering to check my regs again, for now being well protected in a solid flightcase.
Donate to Reef Check, please.
My charity is: Pacific Whale Foundation (PWF)
Me and the Mrs both dive. I carefully roll them up and stuff them in our wetsuits that are then tucked into our bcd’s. And then all that is tightly strapped in our dive roller bags. My wife likes to dress up for diners (have to admit I like it when she does 👍)at the resorts. So needless to say, dive vacations forces us to travel with 2 regular suitcases, 2 dive rollers AND carry-on bags. That’s how I explain my F150. 🤭As for the charity you might want to check a group that funds diving courses for disabled vets. Sorry but I can’t remember their name.
Deptherapy in the UK, Wounded Warriors in the US, I believe. Good shout.
Do it the same way. Pack regs in the middle of my big bag. Fins & electronics & torches go in my carry on. Never had a problem.
It go’s in my carry-on bag with my prescription mask.
At Riyadh airport they insisted I left security, with a guard, went back to check in and check in the reg in its bag, by itself in the hold. They were convinced the reg contained pressurised gas and would not listen to reason. On separate occasions at both Oman and Jordan they took my reg out of my hold luggage and asked if it was pressurised , unbelievable!
That is a new one to me! Crazy!
That should be easy to disprove. Press the purge button, and show the reading on the SPG. Maybe even unscrew the dustcap.
I always pack my regs in my carry-on bag. Especially with the whole COVID situation, as well as the fact that I know when my regs were last serviced, I want to have my regs with me when I land. Even though the airlines losing bags is rare, it’s still not unheard of. I’m still working on trying to find a configuration that allows me to consolidate all of my diving gear into one carry-on bag so I don’t have to check any bags into the hold, and I don’t have to worry about renting gear at my dive location.
As I said, depends who you fly with and where. With the size of cabin bags allowed, and the weight limits enforced, on the vast majority of my flights, there is no way on earth I could ever get a full set of dive kit in there, even without my camera in the mix. It is just not feasible. As for lost luggage, yes, it does happen, but in hundreds of flights, my bag has only gone missing twice, and in both instances it arrived the following day.
Well, depending on your size and destination, I could imagine, having a shorty, jacket-style bcd, mask and regs in a standard carry-on bag. So it all depends on your fin-size, actually. Being 6‘5‘‘ that’s absolutely not an issue I could even dream about 😂
Why prioritise your camera housing over the one piece of equipment which keeps you alive.
As I explained in the video, I can use rental equipment from the centre I am diving with if my luggage is delayed or lost, whereas trying to borrow a decent camera system is much more of a nightmare. And that rental kit is going to be used by trainee divers, etc, so I have no worries about it working correctly, etc. Don’t get me wrong, I prefer using my own regulator, but for me, needing to get images for the magazine is paramount on assignments, so I need my camera. And like I also said in the video, never, ever had an issue with my reg in literally hundreds of international flights.
We had our camera equipment stolen out of our checked bags at Cancun airport, so from now on our regs go into checked bag and camera doesn’t leave our sight!!
@Scuba Diver Magazine This is a very specific usecase though. Most divers who bring a camera, bring a GoPro and not much else. That can easily fit in your carry-on with your regs.
My regs come in the cabin with me in that mtx-rc black hold all behind you 😉. I can fit some other bit’s in too to save wieght. I seem to get away with a small rucksack too. I think they think it’s a laptop bag 😂😂
As I said, depends on the flights and who you are flying with as to what you can get away with. If I was ever travelling sans-camera system, I would definitely have my regs in my hand luggage along with my dive comp, but as I am normally with-camera, I have to prioritise.
Some type of ocean/shark charity.