What items have you actually used from your save-a-dive kit?

[mania]

I also don't have a "save a dive kit" but have a box with different staff. I use frequently some of the tools there - to change the hoses set up, zip ties (if that's what i think about - by zip tie you meant this plastic staff that's used by electricians to keep the wires together?).
Of course O rings and silicon grease.
These are the commonly used things but in the box there are few more

And how to be a lady carrying such box?
Mania

 

[realdiver7]

It sounds as though there is some confusion as to the definition of "save-a-dive kit." I also don't believe in buying one of the cheap commercially sold save-a-dive kits because they don't have enough in them. However, they can be a good starting point for building your own kit.

A save-a-dive kit can be any kit you make yourself, or it can be one that you buy that is commercially produced. Most divers I know make up their own kits which are designed around the type of diving they do.

If you have a "box" of spare parts, accessories, etc., then you have a save-a-dive kit. I think all divers should have such a kit.

 

[gkndivebum]

[...]What items have you actually used from your save-a-dive kit? Which ones are most often used? [...]

I most often hand out zip-ties, hair ties (elastic scrunchies), bolt snaps and o-rings. I've occasionally
loaned out the spare SPG.

By far the most common are the hair ties -- both for hair and to replace lost hose/light tiedowns on
BCD webbing. Go figure.

 

[RP Diver]

I don't have a "save-a-dive" kit, as I think they're lame and just another useless thing pawned off on Scuba Divers as a must-have accessory.

I do however, have a fully stocked drybox that goes on every dive with me. Some of the most recently used items include:

*Another name for a Save-a-Dive kit is a SAD kit. If you're just bumping around with that limp Trident mask/fin-strap-in-a-tube nonsense, you need to shake yourself, do a search on ScubaBoard (for the stuff you need to include) and build a real drybox to carry with you. I have an abbreviated version for dayboats, and a Drybox+ I use on multi-day / vacation trps. I won't do a dive without it.

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Ken

You say "to-may-to", I say "to-mah-to". Just another name for the same thing, IMO. The type of diving you do will normally dictate what it contains, but it's still the same idea.

I've used oodles of o-rings, tie wraps, spare mouthpiece, Sea Drops, Swim Ear, Lip balm, Multi-tool, dentist's pick, silicone grease and silicone spray, batteries (for my daytime light). I carry spare straps, but haven't used them myself yet... have known others to use them, and once loaned my spare slap strap to a fellow diver to tryout as she'd never heard of them. :11:

 

[Mo2vation]

You say "to-may-to", I say "to-mah-to". Just another name for the same thing, IMO. The type of diving you do will normally dictate what it contains, but it's still the same idea.

I've used oodles of o-rings, tie wraps, spare mouthpiece, Sea Drops, Swim Ear, Lip balm, Multi-tool, dentist's pick, silicone grease and silicone spray, batteries (for my daytime light). I carry spare straps, but haven't used them myself yet... have known others to use them, and once loaned my spare slap strap to a fellow diver to tryout as she'd never heard of them. :11:

- but my point is simply this: most commercially available, retail packaged, dive-shop hawked SAD kits ill prepare most divers to manage most on-water issues.

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Ken

 

[RP Diver]

- but my point is simply this: most commercially available, retail packaged, dive-shop hawked SAD kits ill prepare most divers to manage most on-water issues.

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Ken

I didn't even know that such a thing existed. I was taught in my OW class back in 1989 to start my own, nobody tried to sell me one. They called it a save-a-dive kit, but we were all strongly encouraged to develop our own. And since I've pretty much always had one, I never was inclined to shop for a ready made one.

I'm not much of a gear hound, I guess. I'm still using my original mask and regulator (also from 1989), only my second BC and my 3rd pair of fins in 16 years of diving.

 

[mossym]

have used spare mask, orings, fin straps, zip ties, spare depthguage..and was glad i had them all...

 

[tedwhiteva]

I think my save-a-dive kit is huge!! Lot's of junk and I have the customary mask & fin strap, snorkle keeper (who needs that anyway), mouthpiece (have used), mainly used out of my kit o-rings and zip ties...not to mention went with my girlfriend's class for OW check-out dives; almost all my de-fog -=> Gone to the felow students...got to love the newbies!!

Oh, you mean my gear bag

 

[sailingking]

I carry a full toolbox now ( we estimated that there is over $2000 worth of stuff in it)

The allen keys and wrenches are the most common thing used, however I have used spare hoses, masks, regs, loads of zip ties and surgical tubing.

The IP guage and the inline adjustment tool are used every now and then.

 

[redacted]

Items used (# of times), usually by someone other than me:

Spare regulator (2)
Spare computer (2)
mask (1)
Fin straps (3)
tank valve o-ring (1)
tank neck o-ring (1)
LP hose o-rings
HP hose o-rings
HP spool o-rings
Scuba multi tool
Duct tape
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