Diver Dennis
Contributor
When we give our luggage to the agent at check-in, they put it on the conveyer belt and we watch it disappear into the bowels of the airport. It should be in a secure area, right? Yet I hear horror stories of lost luggage, a lot. If luggage can go missing in secure airport areas don't you think that all the money we are spending through our governments is a bit of a joke? Luggage might be mis-placed but to loose it all together makes me think that if someone can steal luggage or even items out of luggage they could just as easily place a bomb onside someone's bag or switch a passengers bag with a bag of explosives.
No system is perfect but travelling with camera equipment in Pelican cases and having other divers warn me that "you are just asking for someone to steal your housing because they target those types of cases" worries me. In my opinion if we can't lock our bags anymore because of security concerns and we can't trust secure areas to keep our bags from being stolen or pilfered, we are no better off, airport security wise, than before this "War on Terrorism" started.
No system is perfect but travelling with camera equipment in Pelican cases and having other divers warn me that "you are just asking for someone to steal your housing because they target those types of cases" worries me. In my opinion if we can't lock our bags anymore because of security concerns and we can't trust secure areas to keep our bags from being stolen or pilfered, we are no better off, airport security wise, than before this "War on Terrorism" started.