Organizing gear & spare parts on the boat

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allanbranch

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My son and I are new to diving. While we have a boat of our own, we've been doing weekly dives with a local dive boat charter. We're looking for advice on organizing our gear for on-the-boat.
  • What do you bring to hold your gear... A mesh bag? A dry dive bag? Milk crate? A roller case?
  • What's in your save a dive kit? (I know there are a few threads about this already, feel free to ignore this question)
  • How do you organize your wallet, keys, phone, and dive cert cards? Pelican case? Dry bag?
 
A sizable, collapsible duffel bag with a section for dry storage; some zip-locks -- that's about it. Something that will readily fit under a bench.

Having spent a great deal of my troubled yoot, working boats, most charters would like to avoid the overuse of rigid stumbling blocks such as milk crates, on a wet deck.

I have seen a number of face plants . . .
 
Large rolling duffle bags, such as you might use for international air travel, take up way too much room on boats.
 
Mesh duffle bag. Small dry bag for phone, keys, and wallet. SADK in a Ziploc bag in the zippered pocket.
 
I usually carry my regulator in a regulator bag, a small backpack/dry bag with change of cloths, towel, hat and sun screen and sea sick pills, fist aid kit and all that sort of foolishness and then a mesh gear bag for everything else:


Once everything is geared up and set up the mesh bag gets rolled up and tossed under the seat. I try to hog enough space to put my drybag and now empty reg bag up front somewhere. I am admittedly a space hog since I also have a large camera system in a cooler bag.

James
 
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