serambin
Guest
Well, here is the good news. Smart guy Stan (that's me) decided that the only way to insure that my SCUBA gear would get to Florida and be insurable, was to ship it UPS. Therefore, I shipped it down to Hawks Cay Resort and printed return labels to ship it back to my home in Shreveport. The gear got there fine and we had a great vacation. The last day we shipped it back. 
Now, here's the bad news. On Friday 26th (is that like a double 13?), the package arrived in, yep, New Orleans, from whence it never emerged. All new gear; all used one, that's one time. So now, I have to replace my gear (actually about 1800.00, insured for 1400.00) with the exception of my regulator, gauges and dive computer that I carried on the plane. : :06:
So, with the current chaos concerning lost luggage and items at airports, how can we protect ourselves from lost gear? If something had happened on the way down, I would have been out a lot more money. Flight tickets and hotel, were all prepaid:11:
P.S. - People at UPS were idiots. They said we couldn't process a claim until the gear showed scanned out of NO. That won't be happening. After three days of asking supervisors to call us back, we finally got hold of someone who understood that the packages in New Orleans sleeps with the fishes, and is helping us to process a claim.
On the other hand, I do get to buy new gear.
Stan
Now, here's the bad news. On Friday 26th (is that like a double 13?), the package arrived in, yep, New Orleans, from whence it never emerged. All new gear; all used one, that's one time. So now, I have to replace my gear (actually about 1800.00, insured for 1400.00) with the exception of my regulator, gauges and dive computer that I carried on the plane. : :06:
So, with the current chaos concerning lost luggage and items at airports, how can we protect ourselves from lost gear? If something had happened on the way down, I would have been out a lot more money. Flight tickets and hotel, were all prepaid:11:
P.S. - People at UPS were idiots. They said we couldn't process a claim until the gear showed scanned out of NO. That won't be happening. After three days of asking supervisors to call us back, we finally got hold of someone who understood that the packages in New Orleans sleeps with the fishes, and is helping us to process a claim.
On the other hand, I do get to buy new gear.
Stan
