Wet wetsuits and travel

[seahorsey]

Ditto to bringing some garbage bags. Priceless. Yes, my luggage has a red marker saying "CAUTION - dirty laundry inside". Shampoo at home. If luggage weight is a problem (when diving, my middle name is 'within an ounce of the baggage allowance'), I have used rental equipment the last day, to make sure my BC and suit was dry to fly.

One caution on your flight, low altitude could also mean small, simple plane, non-pressurized cabin. So you'd experience the same low pressures than in a commercial flight at much greater height. Heck, here in BC people get bent regularly coming back from the coast over the mountain passes. You may want to skip the last dive, make it nitrox, make it EXTREMELY short or shallow. It would be SO not worth it getting bent. Never mind the danger, the HASSLE alone, and the cost!

 

[Hatul]

Ditto to bringing some garbage bags. Priceless. Yes, my luggage has a red marker saying "CAUTION - dirty laundry inside". Shampoo at home. If luggage weight is a problem (when diving, my middle name is 'within an ounce of the baggage allowance'), I have used rental equipment the last day, to make sure my BC and suit was dry to fly.

One caution on your flight, low altitude could also mean small, simple plane, non-pressurized cabin. So you'd experience the same low pressures than in a commercial flight at much greater height. Heck, here in BC people get bent regularly coming back from the coast over the mountain passes. You may want to skip the last dive, make it nitrox, make it EXTREMELY short or shallow. It would be SO not worth it getting bent. Never mind the danger, the HASSLE alone, and the cost!

That's wise advice, and solves two problems: drying the gear and getting rid of nitrogen from your body. Just take the last day off diving.

Adam

 

[Damselfish]

or at least the last afternoon. A sunny afternoon goes a long way to getting gear dry too.