KD8NPB
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Currently, all I have is a storm whistle. Next investment will be a SOG Seal Pup blade.
After that, probably a signal mirror, SMB, and spool?
After that, probably a signal mirror, SMB, and spool?
Do you carry any safety equipment??
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Peter_C
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Diving in remote areas, with a rugged coastline, I carry...
1: Nautilus Lifeline, left pocket. (Thank you Rescue 21, hope I never need you)
2: Dive Alert, left pocket (Nothing louder out there)
3: Storm Whistle, left pocket (Works without a tank or air in tank)
4: Signal Mirror, left pocket (Best daytime signaling device, and what was seen to save the folks in Cozumel when the boat sank)
5: DSMB with spool, left pocket (Everyone needs to carry an SMB in open water)
6: Cut off steak knife mounted to front of harness (Whacks through rope like cutting butter)
7: Shears, right pocket (My goto cutting device, and they will cut through wire leader)
8: The future holds a PLB aka P-EPIRB
Take me out of the ocean and all I carry are cutting devices, and maybe a lift bag if on a recovery mission.
1: Nautilus Lifeline, left pocket. (Thank you Rescue 21, hope I never need you)
2: Dive Alert, left pocket (Nothing louder out there)
3: Storm Whistle, left pocket (Works without a tank or air in tank)
4: Signal Mirror, left pocket (Best daytime signaling device, and what was seen to save the folks in Cozumel when the boat sank)
5: DSMB with spool, left pocket (Everyone needs to carry an SMB in open water)
6: Cut off steak knife mounted to front of harness (Whacks through rope like cutting butter)
7: Shears, right pocket (My goto cutting device, and they will cut through wire leader)
8: The future holds a PLB aka P-EPIRB
Take me out of the ocean and all I carry are cutting devices, and maybe a lift bag if on a recovery mission.
jmneill
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I was diving a wreck off of Pensacola @ 100' with a STRONG current when my "dive buddy" (there were only two of us down and two on the boat) decided he should get the anchor into a better position. (it was kind of hung up in the wreck) Upon doing so the achor took off like a bullet and was out of sight within seconds. By the time we made it to the surface (no safety stop here) the boat was a speck on the horizon. I had none of the aforermentioned gear. After a lot of swimming, screaming and large consumption of salt water in very rough seas we were spotted. I always dive with everything I can get my hands on now.
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When I'm shore diving at home, I carry an SMB and spool (very handy gadgets if you have to abort a dive and do an ascent from depth, as well as a way to mark your location for surface folks) and a cutting device. I also carry a light and a backup light for EVERY dive.
When I am diving off a boat, I add a DiveAlert (or at least the team has one, because we lost one of ours
) and a mirror. If I were going to do some diving in places where currents were fierce and people were often swept off, I'd think about the Lifeline or something like it, and possibly a flare or dye marker. A friend of mine has a delrin canister, similar to the canisters that hold light batteries, that he puts all this kind of stuff in. He had an experience with being lost off a dive boat in the San Juans, and had a LONG swim to shore.
When I am diving off a boat, I add a DiveAlert (or at least the team has one, because we lost one of ours
) and a mirror. If I were going to do some diving in places where currents were fierce and people were often swept off, I'd think about the Lifeline or something like it, and possibly a flare or dye marker. A friend of mine has a delrin canister, similar to the canisters that hold light batteries, that he puts all this kind of stuff in. He had an experience with being lost off a dive boat in the San Juans, and had a LONG swim to shore.
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If I think I might at all need it I carry it. Safety first. If there is really NO possibility of needing it I don't--less drag, less to wash off.
Guba
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I carry...
Backup folding knife in harness pocket
"Safety sausage" with 50 feet of line wound around a chemical glow stick
Whistle (attached to glow stick with a snap)
Signal mirror, military. (These last three entries are in the other harness pocket)
I carry a blunt-tip knife attached to my "kangaroo pocket"
IN the kangaroo pocket, I carry a small (but powerful) light and double sided slate
I carry these items regardless of what type of diving I'll be doing (fresh or salt). To me, it's better to have them all the time and know where they are than to try to remember to add them to my kit for a particular dive. I've found that when I try to do that, something ALWAYS seems to get left in the dive bag.
Backup folding knife in harness pocket
"Safety sausage" with 50 feet of line wound around a chemical glow stick
Whistle (attached to glow stick with a snap)
Signal mirror, military. (These last three entries are in the other harness pocket)
I carry a blunt-tip knife attached to my "kangaroo pocket"
IN the kangaroo pocket, I carry a small (but powerful) light and double sided slate
I carry these items regardless of what type of diving I'll be doing (fresh or salt). To me, it's better to have them all the time and know where they are than to try to remember to add them to my kit for a particular dive. I've found that when I try to do that, something ALWAYS seems to get left in the dive bag.
AfterDark
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I always carry 2whistles / a SMB,weighted w/dive flag swen on and finger spool / 50#lift bag / jon-line / signal mirror / light / 2 knives /caribines for attaching ANYTHING / 2 compasses console, mini-on watch band, if solo diving add cellphone and personal waterproof GPS in old 35mm sealife camera case attached to my harness. If night diving add another light a small strobe and a few chemlites.
My kit is still evolving but so far I have an SMB with 100' finger spool stored in thigh pocket. safety whistle attached to my left chest d-ring and another in my pocket with a signal mirror. Z-cutter on my harness waist strap, EMT sheers on my pocket. I always carry my main light and a back-up, which is in the pocket with the SMB.
If I go to remote places I will possibly add a dye pack signal, an epirb &/or radio, and definitely a throw-away space blanket, which will all be stuffed inside a small section of PVC attached to my plate somehow.
If I go to remote places I will possibly add a dye pack signal, an epirb &/or radio, and definitely a throw-away space blanket, which will all be stuffed inside a small section of PVC attached to my plate somehow.
Bigd2722
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I carry:
Nautilus Lifeline (this is tethered in a weight pocket, open the pocket, it drops out and I can have easily)
SMB with 30' drop line
Other weight pocket has a tether with backup light, whistle, mirror, shears (open the pocket and it drops out)
Knife in a sheath on my leg
Line cutter velcroed to my pocket
Pony bottle
Dive alert
Big honking yellow garbage bag in an air seal pack (takes very little space)
Nautilus Lifeline (this is tethered in a weight pocket, open the pocket, it drops out and I can have easily)
SMB with 30' drop line
Other weight pocket has a tether with backup light, whistle, mirror, shears (open the pocket and it drops out)
Knife in a sheath on my leg
Line cutter velcroed to my pocket
Pony bottle
Dive alert
Big honking yellow garbage bag in an air seal pack (takes very little space)
sink-er-swim
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I carry a Nautilus Lifeline, shears, 150' spool, Lift bag, extra mask, backup tables. The contents of my pockets don't usually change, wether I'm in 200' or 20'.
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