Storing your Scuba gear

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Ulfhedinn

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Would like to see some ideas on how you store your Scuba gear at your house. I saw some pictures on here a while back of what looked like a closet in the garage filled from top to bottom with gear. Pics are most welcome! :D
 
Store the gear inside a lidded Rubbermaid storage bin in a temperature-controlled environment (preferably inside the house).
The Rubbermaid bin will keep bugs out and can be used for post-dive rinsing as well as car transport to/from local dive sites.
I would hang up my wetsuit with a thick hanger in an indoor closet if possible. Protect it with a dry-cleaning plastic protector if you so desire.
 
My current solution: Dive often enough so that it never dries enough to have to put it away :D

Other then that, I have a small apartment so just all goes back into the gear bag, wetsuits get hung up in the closet
 
My storage looks a bit tidier than usual. I did a big clear out of my dive cupboard the other day and threw away a lot of my really old gear that I finally had to admit I would never fix or never use. But I feel a sense of shame and guilt throwing away my old Dacor BCD amongst other things - this must be what it feels like for men who leave their wives for a younger woman.
 
I hang my bcd, wetsuit, gloves, hood, and boots up on a department store clothing rack that I was given after letting it soak overnight in a tub of fresh water. It's in the garage, so there's a tote under the rack to catch the drips.
 
Thoroughly dried lights and masks are packed away in a plastic box under a bed. Suits, dried, are hung in a closet on suit hangers. Reg hoses are loosely coiled and the coil placed on plastic under a bed. Fins, booties, gloves, BC, etc. all placed in a dive gear bag and stored in a closet.
 
A place for everything and everything in its place.

Wide hangers - BC, wetsuits, rash guards.
Pelican cases - Cameras, regulators, computers.
Rubbermaid container - Booties, gloves, hoods, lights, reels, lifbags.

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Never store wetsuits or drysuits folded. If you have a garage, then this is the best place to store. Needs to be a dryish location that is for sure. We keep under the house in a workshop, but this is not North America and we do not get freezing weather, so not a problem.
 
My current solution: Dive often enough so that it never dries enough to have to put it away :D

Other then that, I have a small apartment so just all goes back into the gear bag, wetsuits get hung up in the closet

:rocker:

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that is where my gear hangs out when im not diving
 
But I feel a sense of shame and guilt throwing away my old Dacor BCD amongst other things - this must be what it feels like for men who leave their wives for a younger woman.

I doubt shame or guilt is running through their mind when they ditch the old wife.
 

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