if you have expensive gear...

[BabyDuck]

...label it with your name & phone number!

we had a hurricane here last month, and larry's pelican case with his underwater video camera floated off. well, someone found it & called the number he'd put on with a label maker, and we got it back! yay for honest people! but - his telescope lenses and mama's kayak won't be coming back because they weren't labeled. :depressed:

 

[Jax]

Thanks for sharing this lesson learned!

It's not just disasters - I and another lady had the exact same G10 in a Canon case. Mine had a label.

 

[Dsix36]

I have been putting my labels on expensive gear for years. The real owners keep taking them off.

 

[Jax]

I have been putting my labels on expensive gear for years. The real owners keep taking them off.

:spit:

 

[DevonDiver]

Just about everyone I know here in Manila gets a bunch of custom waterproof stickers made. An A4 sheet provides a hundred or so stickers, in various sizes. They have name (phone if desired) and a dive flag, on each sticker. They're reflective too. Costs $20.

Not sure of the specs for the stickers, but they work good on all scuba gear.

 

[justleesa]

That's great news! Hurray for the honest folks! I've labeled my surface cameras and such inside the battery compartment with our name and phone#, in hopes we'll never need it.

 

[Garrobo]

I don't have anything worth stealing or returning. If it 's gone it's because I misplaced it.

 

[eelnoraa]

what do you guys use to mark your gears? And where to get them?

 

[spectrum]

what do you guys use to mark your gears? And where to get them?

Paint pens, permanent markers. The silver sharpies do well on black. They do become a maintenance point if you gear gets regular use but it beats no hope of direct recovery.

I have always been fond of the phone number approach.

With regard to wandering gear I also have a log of all major item serials and tank markings on file.

Pete

 

[TracyN]

Thanks for this advice. I wish I would have thought about it before my camera floated away in the Gulf.