slingshot
Contributor
In the past, there have been a few threads on travelling with dive gear in the "tanks and gear" section and in the "travel"section on the board. Haven't seen much of late. I am (was?) planning to take my bailout bottle (pony + SP Mk2+/R380) on a trip to Hawaii, but the airline (ATA) says "no scuba tanks" even if flying with valves off. Thus, some questions for y'all:
1. Do the airlines really pull your bag off a flight if they detect a valveless tank in your suitcase? No hearsay, only direct experience please. Does size matter (okay, let's keep our focus here) meaning spareAir okay, 80 cu foot bottle no way?
2. Has anyone tried shipping their bottles and meeting up with the brown van in their vacation destination?
"Why travel with a tank?" is no doubt running through someone's mind, but I haven't found much by way of pony rental's in Maui, I don't dive doubles, and generally prefer to dive with some redundancy.
Maybe if I stick a flower in the bottle neck and call it a vase?
1. Do the airlines really pull your bag off a flight if they detect a valveless tank in your suitcase? No hearsay, only direct experience please. Does size matter (okay, let's keep our focus here) meaning spareAir okay, 80 cu foot bottle no way?
2. Has anyone tried shipping their bottles and meeting up with the brown van in their vacation destination?
"Why travel with a tank?" is no doubt running through someone's mind, but I haven't found much by way of pony rental's in Maui, I don't dive doubles, and generally prefer to dive with some redundancy.
Maybe if I stick a flower in the bottle neck and call it a vase?