Taming things dangling off my BCD. A big rubber band maybe?

[GreyVR]

I've been searching on streamlining and whatnot for a couple of hours, and I haven't found what I'm looking for. Mostly people fussing at each other about if drag is a thing or not. I care about drag, but mostly I don't want to crack the coral when I mess up 'just a little' which is often because I'm a novice.

I will be super specific. I have a gopro with a stick grip attached to my right BCD chest ring, I have a dive light attached to my left BCD ring. I wear an aqualung dimension BCD. They dangle when I let them go. The octo pocket on my bcd has an octo in it so it isn't an option. My BCD pockets have things I don't want to access often, (backup light on night dives, gloves, slate, safety sausage.)

I want my light and my camera to stop dangling. I want a product where I can 'tuck them in' for two point suspension. Something like a big ass rubber band or a bungie cord which will stay put on my BCD and not wander around, where I can 'tuck the damn things' in.


Any help?

 

[Lake Hickory Scuba]

This is semi-related, hopefully it will help. A bungee strap from the dollar store.

 

[GreyVR]

Awesome! This is very helpful.

 

[Hoag]

I keep some of my "dangly stuff" controlled by using about a 2 inch section of a bicycle inner tube. I will clip something on to a D-ring and then tuck the dangly end into the loop of inner tube.

 

[northernone]

I keep some of my "dangly stuff" controlled by using about a 2 inch section of a bicycle inner tube. I will clip something on to a D-ring and then tuck the dangly end into the loop of inner tube.

This helped me as well.

 

[GreyVR]

Bit of a question, where does one acquire inner-tube if they don't have old ones laying around? I don't, and I hesitate to pay a lot for a new one if I'm going to chop it up.

 

[REVAN]

Instead of using the ball bungee as shown in the video above, just get plain bungee and some small 4" zip ties. Make a loop the diameter you want with about an inch of overlap where the ends meet. Use a couple zip ties; pull them tight and it will lock the loop. If you desire adjustments, leave them a little looser and you can still slide the bungee. It works surprisingly well.

 

[GreyVR]

I just sent off for a coil of bungee and two or three doohickeys to connect it, and a book on knots.

One of the things I got is a buckle. https://www.amazon.com/Black-Inch-B...rs=12087901011&ie=UTF8&qid=1515288693&sr=8-62

I'm thinking I will be able to run the bungee through it a bunch of times and tie it off. BTW, when you cut bungee you burn the tips like on paracord, right?

 

[northernone]

Bit of a question, where does one acquire inner-tube if they don't have old ones laying around? I don't, and I hesitate to pay a lot for a new one if I'm going to chop it up.

Not sure what your environment is like. I salvage from bike and motorcycle shops. Often free, and they are glad to be a contributor to an interesting story. Inexplicably I also find them discarded on roadways fairly frequently.

 

[Hoag]

Bit of a question, where does one acquire inner-tube if they don't have old ones laying around? I don't, and I hesitate to pay a lot for a new one if I'm going to chop it up.

I didn't have any inner tubes lying around either, but it was a couple bucks at Walmart so compared with just about everything else in scuba, it was pretty much a non-issue. One inner tube provides a lifetime worth of thick "rubber bands".