Safe Diving Kit (In-Water)

[Aquawookie]

I have a question for all you SB'ers out there.

What rescue/safty equipment do you take with you on your dives.

And by with you, I mean on your person, DURING the majority of your dives.

I await the responces with great interest.

Regards,
Paul.

 

[Ann Marie]

I have an air whistle (forgot the brand name) that connects in-between the low-pressure line and the BC inflator hose. I also have one of those orange blow-up sticks (forget the name of that too). I keep meaning to put a mirror and small light in my BC pocket as well. I also have an old fashion regular whistle on my BC and my dive knife.

 

[Parrothead_Diver]

I have a question for all you SB'ers out there.

What rescue/safty equipment do you take with you on your dives.

And by with you, I mean on your person, DURING the majority of your dives.

I await the responces with great interest.

Regards,
Paul.

1) Safety Sausage
2) EMT Sheers
3) Dive Knife
4) Whistle
5) Small Dive Light
6) My Common Sense

 

[gfisher4792]

1: Safety Sausage behind BP, with spool in pocket
2: EMt Shears on belt
3: Knife on harness
4: Whistle in pocket
5: Dive light on harness
6: Adding mirror and glow sticks

 

[wcl]

Howdy!

Here's what I always take:

- Safety sausage
- Small flashlight (2-AAA little Pelican LED)
- Z-knife
- UK Trigger small BCD knife
- Storm whistle

When going to a wreck lately, I also bring EMT shears.

On night dives, besides the usual primary and backup and tank light, I also take a little strobe/flash combo (Firefly Plus, http://www.acrelectronics.com/fireflys/fflyplus.html; probably not the best strobe, but found it on sale at boating store).

I am also just now looking to buy a signal mirror to carry always.

All of this is quite small and compact and pretty easy to take every time. I have fortunately never yet needed any of it, but have only been doing this since last March.

Cheers,
Walter

 

[teknitroxdiver]

Here's what I take on every dive:

-Mirror. Not a good one but better than nothing.
-Whistle. A very loud 'storm whistle'
-Safety sausage. A cheap one, before I go again I'm getting a DSMB and spool.
-Dive knife, the 'Squeeze' kind that attaches to BC grommets
-Ikelite PCa light on day dives
-Ikelite PCa and Pelican Nemo 8C on night dives
-A few glow sticks
-5 feet of line
-Small pouch to keep mirror, glow sticks, and line in.

I plan to change to a BP/W setup and add a better DSMB, a strobe, another knife, and somewhere along the way get either a doubles wing or a pony bottle for solo-ish lake dives. I carry most of this on every dive, because if the one time you don't bring what you need, and you find that you really really need it, one of the things you do as you either float around without a signalling device, or tangled up down below, is you're going to be kicking yourself for not preparing properly.

 

[DBailey]

I take what everyone else has listed. I also have attached my whistle and signal mirror attached to string so I can wear them around my neck if I ever need too. I have used a section of bungee to keep the string wrapped to the item, but I can take that off then put around my neck so I don't drop them.

 

[Michael Schlink]

Dive Alert, Fox whistle, 2 cyalumes, mirror, reel, lift bag, 6' sausage, several lights.

 

[mdsd]

:LIFSAVR:

In my BC pocket:
signal sausage
mirror
lite stick

On my BC:
whistle

On me somewhere (changes for day/night):
small flashlight
knife
big flashlight

Nite only:
beacon (tank marker)

 

[Mark Vlahos]

Primary Light, attached to back plate
Backup Light, on harness -never used due to primary failure
Small blunt tip knife, on harness -never needed
EMT Shears, on harness -never needed
Dive alert Horn (Ocean dives), on inflator -never needed
Open bottom marker bouy (Ocean dives), in sleeve on bottom of back plate -used often
Finger spool with 100' of line, in pocket -used often with marker above
Spare Mask, in pocket -never needed
folding snorkel, in pocket -never needed
Storm whistle, in pocket -never needed
combination Strobe / flashlight, in pocket -never needed
Small signal mirror, in pocket -never needed

I try to include my brain on all dives as well -used often (I hope)

Mark Vlahos