How do you store your gear?

[JahJahwarrior]

Rubbermaid plastic shelf thing, a few feet away from the garage door opening. Perfect height on shelfs for milk crates. I throw my BP/W setups and fins and stuff on the bottom shelf, put everything else in a few milkcrates on the other shelfs, and still have a shelf or two left for piles of random gear and parts and tools.

Tanks go against the wall from the corner by the door up to the shelf. Scooter stands on the inside side of the shelf. Drysuit and wetsuit hang on the garage door rails to dry, then drysuit goes in a bag inside, and the wetsuits just kind hang there to freak people out in the dark.

 

[JBRES1]

My gear gets hung to dry , then stored in large rubbermaid bins at my office till the next dive.
I keep my drysuit ,BP/W and 1 or 2 reg sets hanging about 8 months of the year, gets used 1 day a week if I'm lucky. My tanks get stored in the warehouse at my office.
Jim Breslin

 

[CalgaryDF]

the wetsuits just kind hang there to freak people out in the dark.

haha

The first time I hung up my gear this summer it scared my roommates the next morning.

I keep my gear stored in the gear bag ready to go once its dry. The assorted other stuff is in boxes around my dorm room. If I won't be using the gear for along time I will hang up the BC, regs, wetsuit on big hangers to let everything relax.

I can't wait to graduate and have a place where I can set up a better scuba area.

 

[Van Isle]

beat up van. Costs less than my 1/2 my drysuit. Decent dive vehicle PLUS a ready space to store gear. Insurance is equal to 3 nitrox fills per month. Very much worth it.

Gear gets rinsed AND dried once per quarter whether it needs it or not.

(I wonder my inflator valve keeps failing me???)

VI

 

[scuga]

beat up van down by the river!. Costs less than my 1/2 my drysuit. Decent dive vehicle PLUS a ready space to store gear. Insurance is equal to 3 nitrox fills per month. Very much worth it.

Gear gets rinsed AND dried once per quarter whether it needs it or not.

(I wonder my inflator valve keeps failing me???)

VI

weren't you on TV?

 

[Dirty-Dog]

Right now, since we've only started to really accumulate dive gear, it's all in our closet (big walkin) but that won't work for long.

I like the garage idea. We've got a two car garage. One side has whatever my current project car is, and Sue parks in the other side. I'm going to need a bench for scuba gear, since the one used for cars cannot possibly be cleaned enough to use with scuba gear. I guess Sue will have to park in the driveway...

 

[it_mike]

Store your gear? I don't think they taught me that one, how does it go?


With my wife taking up the sport, she's going to have to start picking up the gear... (just got slapped for that one).

Seriously, I've got gear in tub, gear in bags, gear that's stiff, and gear that sags. It's in the closet, the bedroom, the breezeway, and two garages. Gear, gear, everywhere...in some state of drying or repair.

 

[messenone]

Hello -

I plan on moving into my first home soon and wanted to dedicate a little area for storing scuba gear. I have lived in apartments so my gear was always crammed up in boxes and closets until just before a dive trip. I promised myself that once I have more space, I will keep my gear more "respectfully."

If I could get some ideas (possibly photographs?) of how rest of the world stores gear, I could take some inspiration.

Cheers -

S H

Thanks for posting this question. I am not anywhere near of getting my own home (house) but its a very interesting post (hopefully it will get a lot of replies) for when I finally do get a house of my own.

 

[Ghanguss]

BCD and wetsuits hang in the closet, all other loose gear in a plastic tub in the garage.
I like to keep all loose gear together so I dont forget anything.

I have 2 tubs for putting wet gear in after a dive and for washing gear once at home. Then two tubs stack together and loose stuff goes in them for storage

 

[bs63366]

Right now I have all my gear tucked in neatly in my barracks room. Soon whenever I get a chance I will be moving it to my dive club they have lockers we can store our gear in. Mine is just a old stand up locker that they use in schools. No tanks to keep in there so it will fit. Have hangers for wetsuits, regs, bp/w, etc. small stuff will sit in the bottom. I think thats the best I will do until I am back to the states.