Travel Luggage Bags on Dive Boats? Are You Crazy?

[MXGratefulDiver]

Over here: a small bangka (boat) with max of 5 divers, we just use one to 2 plastic crates and stash every dive gear in there. Bring our dry boxes with our valuables, and bravo! We chat our way to the dive site and just pass along our gears when we're ready to plunge.

We dived off of something like that in Bali ... looked like an oversized canoe with a motor on one end.

At Menjangen Island the crew just tossed everybody's gear overboard, and we geared up in the water ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[HowardE]

I think we dived off of something like that in Bali ... looked like an oversized canoe with a motor on one end.

At Menjangen Island the crew just tossed everybody's gear overboard, and we geared up in the water ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I dived off of a "banana" boat when I was in Puerto Vallarta. We wore the wetsuits the whole time... we had to wade out to the boat carrying our gear. Nobody brough bags, but the "shop" had a place to store stuff.

 

[Jamdiver]

We dived off of something like that in Bali ... looked like an oversized canoe with a motor on one end...

Bob (Grateful Diver)

Sounds like here :14:.

 

[ishbaby]

I dived off of a "banana" boat when I was in Puerto Vallarta.

This banana boat?

hehehe, kiddin'.

oops im hi-jacking . . .

 

[wardric]

I dived off of a "banana" boat when I was in Puerto Vallarta. We wore the wetsuits the whole time... we had to wade out to the boat carrying our gear. Nobody brough bags, but the "shop" had a place to store stuff.

same thing in Cuba, no bags because we were "ready to dive" when we got to the boat by walking in the water. But I had a lil' soft cooler for my camera.

 

[HowardE]

This banana boat?

hehehe.

oops im hi-jacking.

That's a different kind of dive

It was more like this

 

[wardric]

This banana boat?

hehehe, kiddin'.

oops im hi-jacking . . .

:lol:

 

[wardric]

well Howard, It was not a banana boat in Cuba then. Just a small boat... oh and I'll post you a pic later

 

[HowardE]

well Howard, It was not a banana boat in Cuba then. Just a small boat... oh and I'll post you a pic later

So... is the dive op RUDE for not letting us take ANY bags?

 

[wardric]

So... is the dive op RUDE for not letting us take ANY bags?

I'll start a topic on that... oh, nah, someone else will

Some had big bags for camera stuff though