SCUBA Checklist

[Dapper Dan]

All the battery/photo/dive light gear can be kept together (I use one of those zippered yellow cases that you get with a strobe from Sealife) while batteries are being charged, photos uploaded, etc. There's no good reason for stuff to be scattered all over the place.

Checklists are an unnecessary extra to compensate for lack of organization.

Yeah I know. It's my bad habit. I use the sd card in the computer room, charge the GoPro and flashlight batteries in the house, and then don't put them back. I used to charge up the 18650 batteries and then put them in the dive back. Until I did night dives and after being in the bag for weeks they discharged. So I usually charge them up the night before a dive.

My SMB and lift bag is usually hanging on the clothesline in the yard to dry and the smaller stuff is in a shopping cart left to dry, and the BC is hanging in the shop to dry. I worry about wetsuits and gloves and hood and socks etc and mildew. We have a subtropical climate here with rain most evenings so humidity is a concern with anything packed up without air flow.

I could and should be more organized but a checklist is just so much easier than keeping account of all the scuba junk I own. LOL It's my own fault that I'm disorganized.

 

[wlecyt40]

and they take up the time you could otherwise use teaching your brain to remember things

What happened, to all those phone numbers, we used to store in the computer in our head

We gave ourselves over to that cell phone, turned us into vegetables that are lost without it

That's what happened

Knocked out of the way by the lyrics for 60', 70's and 80's rock.......

 

[Dapper Dan]

and they take up the time you could otherwise use teaching your brain to remember things

What happened, to all those phone numbers, we used to store in the computer in our head

We gave ourselves over to that cell phone, turned us into vegetables that are lost without it

That's what happened

Well in fair comparison, I only had 1 or 2 phone numbers to remember in the 70's. I still remember my phone number from when I was 12. We had a party line with the folks across the woods.

I just looked at my iPhone...86 contacts, No way I could memorize 86 phone numbers.
I don't think back in the 70's they "stored phone numbers in the computer in our head". They carried a little black book. Pop carried one in his suit vest pocket daily. Mom used to check it...just like women snoop in their husbands phone today. LOL

 

[cgblake]

In addition to a packing list, I also always have a gear checklist in my wetnotes

I do this as well, it makes it super easy to pull the wet notes and neoprene out of my dive crate, check items and batteries then load everything back up.
If y’all haven’t already I highly recommend a large milk crate for dive gear.

 

[wlecyt40]

We have a large Rubbermaid tub to transport our gear. Makes it really easy to take to where I go to clean it, rinse it off and hang it up to dry.

 

[dorsal]

Checklist is great. Sadly it doesn’t help when I can’t find something that I thought was where it should be.

 

[scubazenapp]

this is great, thanks for providing. I keep one in my notes for now but it gets lost in the shuffle for sure

 

[happy-diver]

I just looked at my iPhone...86 contacts

Dude chop that in half and you won't remember why you ever spoke to them in the first place