Ricky B
Contributor
I'm looking for a backpack-style gear bag for carrying gear from car to beach or boat. I'm not looking to check it with an airline or carry it onboard a plane. If the bag folds down and packs flat for taking with me in a suitcase, great. But my #1 use will be local.
The shoulder straps should be comfortable with all the dive gear loaded.
The bag should be able to hold (for one diver) a 7mm wetsuit, hood, vest, steel backplate, wings, booties, gloves, fins, regulators, and accessories, such as mask, dive computer, compass, and so on. Oh, and a towel too.
I assume that I would wear the weight belt with weights, rather than pack it in the bag and stress the stitching and the wearer (me).
I started looking at mesh bags, but a post in another thread suggested that maybe a more conventional backpack would also work. So I would be open to suggestions on that score.
I also would like hand grips so that the bag doesn't have to be handled by the straps, say, when trying to hand the bag from pier to boat.
Right now, I'm looking online at the following bags (haven't seen any of them in person):
XS Scuba Deluxe Mesh Backpack (BG320)
Stahlsac Panama Mesh Backpack
Stahlsac Bonaire Mesh Backpack
Mares Cruise Backpack Mesh Deluxe Bag
If anyone has any experience with these, pro or con, I'd like to hear it.
If there is something in particular that you like about your gear bag (whether or not on the list above), I'd like to hear it.
The shoulder straps should be comfortable with all the dive gear loaded.
The bag should be able to hold (for one diver) a 7mm wetsuit, hood, vest, steel backplate, wings, booties, gloves, fins, regulators, and accessories, such as mask, dive computer, compass, and so on. Oh, and a towel too.
I assume that I would wear the weight belt with weights, rather than pack it in the bag and stress the stitching and the wearer (me).
I started looking at mesh bags, but a post in another thread suggested that maybe a more conventional backpack would also work. So I would be open to suggestions on that score.
I also would like hand grips so that the bag doesn't have to be handled by the straps, say, when trying to hand the bag from pier to boat.
Right now, I'm looking online at the following bags (haven't seen any of them in person):
XS Scuba Deluxe Mesh Backpack (BG320)
Stahlsac Panama Mesh Backpack
Stahlsac Bonaire Mesh Backpack
Mares Cruise Backpack Mesh Deluxe Bag
If anyone has any experience with these, pro or con, I'd like to hear it.
If there is something in particular that you like about your gear bag (whether or not on the list above), I'd like to hear it.