How To Travel With (lots of) Underwater Photography Gear
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Matthew quizzes Alex on how he travels with his gear. Alex has many years of travelling with as much photo gear as possible and shares his system for maximising travel comfort, minimising luggage bulk and maximising gear! Naia once again steals the show! This is the 17th episode of The Underwater Photography Show.
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One tactic I didn't mention, because I don't use it, but it is a good one for circumnavigating strict hand baggage/carry on luggage weights - is the photographers gilet or waistcoat. This can be put on and loaded up when going through the airport and then once on the plane, it can be put into you bag. I don't use this approach because I think comfort while travelling is important - but it is a good solution for certain routes.
Apart from the full foot fins, my baggage is pretty much similar to Alex's
Cameras (I usually carry two bodies) and lenses go in a LowePro backpack with computer and my housing, ports and strobes are in a small cabin wheely suitcase.
Dive gear in a Fourth Element duffel and additional camera gear and clothing in another suitcase that goes in the hold.
As I'm based in Dubai I tend to use Emirates or SIA on most of my trips and I've not had any major issues with either airline. I do know that leaving from the UK or Europe the check-in is more strict.
This is valuable information...thanks. I have been looking at paying a mountain of money for a Pelican or Nanuk case or something similar for my gear but your tip that it might invite the wrong kind of interest and that an average looking case that serves the purpose is a way better and safer way to go. Thanks guys from the Maritimes, Canada
Good advice! Some liveaboards (but not all!) and most resorts can do laundry, so you really don't need to pack many clothes. I'm amazed at how much gear many divers take with them, when it's readily available at destination. I never take a BCD, for example, although I do like my own regulator.
The MV Oceania in PNG was brilliant for laundry - a free service every day. That's the way to do it.
I was curious about Alex's contention that full-foot fins are lighter weight than open-heel fins. My feet are size US14 (UK13), so any fins that fit tend to be pretty heavy! Nonetheless, I set out to test Alex's hypothesis. Results: My open-heel fins with neoprene booties weigh 53 oz (1.5 kg) each; the open-heel fins without booties weigh 41 oz (1.16 kg), and the full-foot fins weigh 26 oz (0.737 kg). So Alex is proven right; my full-foot fins are approximately HALF the weight of my open-heel fins with booties. Guess which fins I'm taking to Raja Ampat next month? Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for putting some numbers down for people to see the difference.
Nice and interesting thanks for sharing !
I have a question on the housing. Is that true that because of the pressure during the flight is recommended to leave the housing open to avoid damages to the housing itself?
Nice job guys.
I’ve found that most international carriers adopt less strict baggage standards for those of us flying out of the USA. It’s the internal flights outside the US where you really have to carefully review baggage policies. Some destinations and airlines will make weight exceptions for dive gear (ex. Indonesia).
Carry on luggage is really important to consider. You want it to be nondescript and on the smaller side so that the airline is less likely to fuss with it. I’ve only had to check carry on luggage once (Cairo) in the past decade while doing dive travel because my bags don’t look heavy. My small roller carry on bag which has most of my camera gear usually approaches 30lbs!
I love this video, so helpful! Thank you.
Thanks for your insight on packing. Where would you put a WACP? The last couple times I carried it by the shoulder strap dangling inconspicuously behind my back as I boarded, along with my other small looking carry ons.
With the WACP-1 I will either wrap in in bubble wrap and put it in the hard case, or put it in its carry case and put that in the soft case. I used to dive with it a lot with foam buoyancy collars, rather than metal floats. And without these it is surprisingly small. But as always if you can carry it on - then do!
Thank you for sharing this information with us 🙏🏼
Is dog necessary to make the focus on travelling ?
bcd? full foot off course❤