sabbath999
Contributor
I will be in Kona for 8 dives in a couple weeks, and I want to take the appropriate gear.
On the one hand, I want to be prepared for what I need, but on the other hand I don't want to be walking around looking like a Christmas tree lugging around a ton of stuff I don't need and won't use.
Will be taking my AOW, doing Deep, Navigation, Buoyancy, Night and Boat, plus 3 other dives. I will be doing a Manta dive.
Here's what I am planning on taking:
Regs w/SPG only
Mask
BC (weight integrated)
Wetsuit (3 mil) & reef gloves
Fins & boots
Wrist Computer
Wrist Compass
DAN SMB kit (SMB, storm whistle, mirror) & finger spool.
Small flashlight as secondary light (will rent good main light there if I need one).
Small (2 inch) flat tipped dive knife (I am hoping Chuck Norris has cleaned out the seas of all the great white sharks so I don't have to carry a footlong Bowie diving knife).
Surface Alert Air Horn.
Snorkel (will be doing snorkeling a couple other days)
On the boat:
Boat bag.
Spare o-rings, spare mask strap, snorkel keeper, spare fin strap (just switched to spring straps)
Stainless EMT scissors to be used in place of dive knife (one or the other).
Too much? Too little?
I am used to quarry diving (no need for SMB's or other signaling devices) so it seems like a lot of kit... but I don't really want to star in my own movie about drifting off in the ocean unseen.
Can ya help a NOOB out?
On the one hand, I want to be prepared for what I need, but on the other hand I don't want to be walking around looking like a Christmas tree lugging around a ton of stuff I don't need and won't use.
Will be taking my AOW, doing Deep, Navigation, Buoyancy, Night and Boat, plus 3 other dives. I will be doing a Manta dive.
Here's what I am planning on taking:
Regs w/SPG only
Mask
BC (weight integrated)
Wetsuit (3 mil) & reef gloves
Fins & boots
Wrist Computer
Wrist Compass
DAN SMB kit (SMB, storm whistle, mirror) & finger spool.
Small flashlight as secondary light (will rent good main light there if I need one).
Small (2 inch) flat tipped dive knife (I am hoping Chuck Norris has cleaned out the seas of all the great white sharks so I don't have to carry a footlong Bowie diving knife).
Surface Alert Air Horn.
Snorkel (will be doing snorkeling a couple other days)
On the boat:
Boat bag.
Spare o-rings, spare mask strap, snorkel keeper, spare fin strap (just switched to spring straps)
Stainless EMT scissors to be used in place of dive knife (one or the other).
Too much? Too little?
I am used to quarry diving (no need for SMB's or other signaling devices) so it seems like a lot of kit... but I don't really want to star in my own movie about drifting off in the ocean unseen.
Can ya help a NOOB out?