To keep the stuff dry while it's ON the boat, not in the water. Who the heck would be stupid enough to take their phone/wallet/keys underwater with them?
Me!
Guilty as charged!
Well, not the phone, I would not have dared.
But I had a trusted pouch for my phone, used on many paddle trips, been with the phone UW (I guess I am not the greatest paddler) a few times too, but just a few feet. Worked great (the pouch), hence it was "trusted".
So when going on a cruise (a regular big fat ship, port invasion, eat yourself silly kind of cruise) with the family, where my son and I were going to go diving with local operators (pre-arranged) in foreign countries, we needed to bring some money and passports. I had some second thoughts about leaving those on the local operators boat during the dive. So I took them with me in that pouch (pressure won't harm them, with almost all air squeezed out prior to closing the pouch should hold...). Worked great the first dive day. Not so much the second. Lessons learned:
- New style US passports are pretty waterproof, much more so than older style German ones, where the covers delaminate. The waterproofness in visa stamps varies too. A border guard at a recent crossing remarked: "It's seen a lot, huh" I refrained from saying "Yep, mostly fishy stuff".
- If you dry out your and your sons diving gear in the tiny cruise ship bathrum and a bunch of banknotes and two passports on the beds in the cabin that you and your wife used to occupy, it will end up being occupied by you and your son.
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