Gear I lost on April 6th has been found

[MrChen]

This was 2 months and 3 weeks ago. My 10 year old zookeeper broke off on entry during a back roll. The buddy with the flag had an entanglement on the previous dive, so asked me to double check him on entry. So, I didn't notice losing my zk. Attached to my zk was a pole spear and two fish float bags. We dove the spot, north of Black Rock, several times in subsequent weeks, and everyone was keeping an eye out for it but never found it. I gave up hope that it would be recovered and bought a new zk and floats.

I had a voicemail at 6:45am today. I just called the guy, and they found my zk floating on the surface near Push Button Hill out of St Lucie, 10 miles offshore. The guy lives in PSL and I'm in Stuart, so he's local and will be an easy pickup.

Reminder, put your name on everything! Buy those stickers off Amazon for like $12-$15, they work great. You never know when your items will be found and returned to you.

 

[arew+4]

This was 2 months and 3 weeks ago. My 10 year old zookeeper broke off on entry during a back roll. The buddy with the flag had an entanglement on the previous dive, so asked me to double check him on entry. So, I didn't notice losing my zk. Attached to my zk was a pole spear and two fish float bags. We dove the spot, north of Black Rock, several times in subsequent weeks, and everyone was keeping an eye out for it but never found it. I gave up hope that it would be recovered and bought a new zk and floats.

I had a voicemail at 6:45am today. I just called the guy, and they found my zk floating on the surface near Push Button Hill out of St Lucie, 10 miles offshore. The guy lives in PSL and I'm in Stuart, so he's local and will be an easy pickup.

Reminder, put your name on everything! Buy those stickers off Amazon for like $12-$15, they work great. You never know when your items will be found and returned to you.

That's awesome! Divers is mostly good people.

 

[Manatee Diver]

Reminder, put your name on everything! Buy those stickers off Amazon for like $12-$15, they work great. You never know when your items will be found and returned to you.

As long as you are willing to replace it every once in a while standard label makers work as well.

I have labels on a majority of my gear. On the outside and even on the insides too.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

I bought some of these : Diving Labels: A “must have” for divers from amateur to professional.
Not a lot of options. However the sticky stuff on the back is really good and they use 3m reflective paper. The first ones were put on items about a year ago and no sign of peeling.

 

[Endler's]

FYI. The ordering form, on divinglabels.com is a broken link. But if you email info@divinglabels.com or morrisjas22@yahoo.com, Ray will get you get back to you.

Edit: You can also ask for two lines of text, and Ray will email preview of label for approval.

 

[Johnoly]

This was 2 months and 3 weeks ago..................and they found my zk floating on the surface near Push Button Hill out of St Lucie, 10 miles offshore.

You gotta post a picture of what it looks like. I'd expect some serious peach fuzz. But if it's clean, then maybe it hasn't been floating for 2 months. (Zk's float?)

 

[NW Dive Dawg]

Reminder, put your name on everything! Buy those stickers off Amazon for like $12-$15, they work great. You never know when your items will be found and returned to you.

Great story..... glad you got your gear back. The 3M stickers are a little pricier but are awesome and hold up. Wife and I use them for everything....diver gear, phones, keys, laptops, yeti's, etc.... Just remember on the phones to put her sticker on yours and your sticker on hers! ON ours we just have first names and cell numbers.

 

[Learner Diver]

I bought some of these : Diving Labels: A “must have” for divers from amateur to professional.
Not a lot of options. However the sticky stuff on the back is really good and they use 3m reflective paper. The first ones were put on items about a year ago and no sign of peeling.

Could use the same labels on a cylinder instead of a stamp marking.

 

[Litefoot]

That’s so great! Plato or Aristotle once opined that “Lost scuba gear will reappear the moment it is replaced”.

 

[divingdayz]

This is awesome. There are good people left in the world)))