| With today's state of air travel and airport security, | | | | activated the device. Because of the altitude and/or |
| scuba divers often have to decide how to travel with | | | | pressure changes during a flight, the dive computer |
| all their dive gear. For those scuba divers who plan | | | | thought that it was going on an actual dive. It |
| to rent all their equipment at their destination, this | | | | started beeping because it didn't like the statistics it |
| isn't an issue. However, the trend in diving has | | | | was sensing which was a bit annoying on board. |
| always been that as divers become more | | | | After the flight, my dive computer actually locked |
| experienced with more dives logged after initial open | | | | out for 24 hours. It was a good thing that I didn't |
| water certifications, they tend to want to use their | | | | dive until the next day. So from now on, I always |
| own equipment rather than rent. This is especially | | | | pack my scuba dive computer in a box which |
| true with masks, regulators, wetsuits and dive | | | | prevents accidental activation and then the box goes |
| computers. Avid scuba divers will often travel with | | | | into my carry on baggage. I also carry on my mask |
| their entire gear including fins and buoyancy | | | | as well as my log book and certification cards. I |
| compensators. Of course because of weight issues, | | | | wouldn't want to be refused for diving by a dive |
| scuba divers rarely travel with tanks or weights. | | | | operator in case my checked baggage was lost so it |
| I have an air integrated Oceanic scuba dive computer | | | | is highly recommended to carry your log book and |
| that I wouldn't want lost or delayed in checked | | | | certification card with you. |
| luggage during my dive trips so I always carry it on | | | | Everything else like my wetsuit, booties, fins, snorkel |
| with me on airplanes. I have never had any problems | | | | and buoyancy compensator goes into my checked |
| going through airport security. Sure, they might check | | | | baggage. If my checked baggage is lost, stolen or |
| my stuff because scuba dive gear looks pretty | | | | delayed, I can always rent the extra equipment I |
| foreign to most airport security staff but that's okay | | | | need without losing any dives. Some folks believe |
| as my scuba dive computer always got through. The | | | | that one should not check in any large scuba dive |
| only thing I have to be careful of is how I pack it. | | | | bags with the dive flag displayed as it may advertise |
| On a few occasions, I had put the computer in a | | | | luggage containing expensive dive gear. In this case, |
| soft bag that also contained my regulator, another | | | | one can always pack a flexible scuba dive bag inside |
| piece of my own scuba equipment that I would | | | | a larger regular suitcase. So a good rule of thumb to |
| prefer to use rather than deal with a rental. During | | | | use is to always carry on the scuba dive equipment |
| travel, one of the buttons on the dive computer | | | | that you can't afford to lose or be without for your |
| must have gotten accidentally depressed which | | | | diving and check the rest. |