SueMermaid
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If you have a knife in your dive bag or attached to your BC, take it off and put it in your checked bags, for heaven's sake!
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many airlines now limit the weight of checked in bags to 50 lbs.scottish2 once bubbled...
My case I will just throw my bean bags into my checked luggage as you said they do provide and no sense carrying 14 lbs extra weight in my carry on. and unfortunately my fins are nice and long to big for any normal carry on they just barely fit my normal luggage. But all my main worry on is my life gear that helps me stay a live. Unfortunately my BC will have to be checked as no dismantle and to big to pack in on-board so...
What BC you using that you can dismantle?
XJae once bubbled...
many airlines now limit the weight of checked in bags to 50 lbs.
While it may not have been a great idea ,,. .. it was funny reading it back .. I could imagine how it must have looked ... live and learnNorda once bubbled...
...So we each pull out just our computers. Just after we get started one of the flight attendants walked by and just about freaked out. We have the Cobra computers which I admit probably look a little strange to someone not familiar with scuba, especially when connected to what looks like a thick cable running into a bag on the floor. I don't know who jumped more her in a moment of panic or us trying to figure out what was going on. Anyway, we got her settled down once we showed her what we were doing. Unfortunately, she also got all the nearby passengers alarmed. We decided to put our stuff away for another time. In after thought probably not a wise idea.
Bill P.
Norda once bubbled...
My dive buddies and I have always carried on our regs and computers and never had any problems with the exception of having to open our bags for visual inspection on some occasions.
However, on one of our return flights we had not completely logged all our dives so decided to do it on the plane. So we each pull out just our computers. Just after we get started one of the flight attendants walked by and just about freaked out. We have the Cobra computers which I admit probably look a little strange to someone not familiar with scuba, especially when connected to what looks like a thick cable running into a bag on the floor. I don't know who jumped more her in a moment of panic or us trying to figure out what was going on. Anyway, we got her settled down once we showed her what we were doing. Unfortunately, she also got all the nearby passengers alarmed. We decided to put our stuff away for another time. In after thought probably not a wise idea.
Bill P.