Where would you keep cash on liveaboards?

[KeithG]

My cash sits in my wallet on the little table thingy near the head of the bed. Along with my phone, my sunglasses, a hat, headphones, a book, a bunch of clean underwear (I think those are the clean ones...) and all my other important stuff.

Never really worried about it. I figure that my room will be the last one to be robbed.

But we did have one passenger on a recent live aboard that was bugging the crew to get a key to her room. She stopped nagging them once they pointed out the door did not have a lock. Sigh...

at cocoview all the rooms have locks and keys. And there're is a board in the common room where you can hang up your room key while you are out diving...

 

[Wookie]

Cash??? what is that? The least of my worries, my dive gear and electronics are worth more than the cash I carry.



Frank how much did it cost ya to install a gun safe on the Spree?

Tufloc High Security Products plus 3 hours labor.

 

[Stoo]

I schlepp a Pelican case on trips for my camera gear. Once I'm at my destination, it becomes my safe. Laptop, wallet, passport all go into it. I padlock it, and use a cable lock to attach it to bed frame or something.

If someone really wants it, they'll take it, but it keeps the honest people honest, as the saying goes...

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Tufloc High Security Products plus 3 hours labor.

LMAO... Only in the USA!

 

[KeithG]

Up here in the great white north we have a similar device we use to secure all of our valuables...
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Not sure why the duffus on the left has an alaska hat on...

 

[Wookie]

LMAO... Only in the USA!

That's really funny. I had a NATO SF dive team last weekend. They said the exact same thing. I guess we're getting a reputation wordwide...

 

[Worldwide Dive and Sail]

Just curious about where do people keep the cash on liveaboards. As I understand there are no safes, is it a problem?

Hi Texasguy

All Siren Fleet liveaboards have personal safes in the cupboard of each cabin - odd to read that others do not, though I have seen safes in many other liveaboards too (blue o two and tornado fleet in the Red Sea for example).

Theft is not typically an issue on any boat but it could ruin a trip and the on board atmosphere so why take the chance? if there is a safe provided best to use it or ask the cruise director to store your valuables.

Cheers
Siren Fleet Marketing Manager

 

[drbill]

During the day I put my meager reserves of cash inside my camera housing (secured so they don't drift in front of the lens), at night in my skivvies. In my years of international diving including many very poor countries I have never had an incident... yet.

 

[Corleone]

enjoy your trip and dive like you own the boat.

people spend most of their time outside the rooms, you only go to your room if you wana sleep, if weather is ok, people sleep under the moon light. there was a tv in my room, never in those 7 days have i turned on that tv.

i was sharing a room with a guy from manchester, on my first day, i left my wallet in the closet next to my bed, on maybe the third day, while looking for my perfume, by mistake i opend his closet thinking its mine, and i found out that he also left his wallet.

enjoy your diving and don't stress your self

 

[Texasguy]

Not stressing, just researching.

 

[redacted]

This has been working well for me in Bonaire: ÿDry-Pak Alligator Wallet, 4 in. X 4 in. (10.2 X 10.2 cm.) at LeisurePro