Scuba Pro, Atomic,& Tanks Stolen - Please be on the lookout!!

[Orlando Eric]

It has been my experience when people steal dive gear they steal the knives and leave the BCD's and wet suits. Did they in fact take everything or did they leave stuff? As an investigator I find it as important to look at what they did not take as what they did take. I am sure OPD or OCSO already did this.

Serial Numbers are invaluable. There will be literally thousands of LP95's filled in the state of florida today. Each one with it's own serial number. THere is no way to know if it is yours without it.

I know there was a Spear group who where cleaned out in WPB a few years ago and with some telephone time a local shop set the scumbags up and they were named.

I personally have worked with both OPD and OCSO when I lived in Orlando and they do a great job at having the guy come in to sell the whole caboodle ending in handcuffs and a few years prison time.

Get the serial numbers as soon as you can.

TO everyone else reading this thread GET YOUR SERIAL numbers RIGHT now and WRITE them down somewhere safe with a copy someplace ELSE safe--- two is one, one is none.

Good luck on getting the BG and your stuff back. I will be looking for a diver with poor skills in full SP gear and 95's ---

 

[cyberfed]

This goes to enforce my opinion about Orlando being a horrible crime ridden city. I can say that because I live here too and I see it everywhere. Sucks about your gear man, please get serial numbers if possible like others suggested. I'll be checking craigslist and other scuba forums that sell used gear.

Gonna write down my cylinders serial's down and put them with the serials to my firearms. Tis a sad sad world we live in friends

 

[DixieDolphin]

TO everyone else reading this thread GET YOUR SERIAL numbers RIGHT now and WRITE them down somewhere safe with a copy someplace ELSE safe--- two is one, one is none.

I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment!

When I first bought them, I wrote my serial numbers down on the original purchase receipt for each of my tanks, which goes in my filing cabinet. And again in the back of my logbook, in case I need to know the numbers while away from home on a dive trip. And I think I cataloged them on my account info page on the DAN website as well. Did the same with all my other dive gear, too. It's all just too expensive to risk losing and ya can't be too careful!

 

[skydiveelis]

How do the serial numbers help ?? from my own experience they only help if someone actually has your S/N's and comes across your stuff , I 'm a skydiver and we use S/N's for all our gear but they don't do you any good , When you send your stuff to get inspected , the Manuf. doesn't know if your gear has been stolen ! I may be wrong !!

 

[Tug]

How do the serial numbers help ?? from my own experience they only help if someone actually has your S/N's and comes across your stuff , I 'm a skydiver and we use S/N's for all our gear but they don't do you any good , When you send your stuff to get inspected , the Manuf. doesn't know if your gear has been stolen ! I may be wrong !!

Serial numbers are helpful in identifying your gear if found and when calling the LDS' in the area to ask them to keep an eye out for your gear. For example, when getting a tank filled with nitrox some places write down the tank serial number in their log.