Choosing SCUBA Gear Clips - How To Never lose Your Valuable Dive Gear Again!
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Have you ever lost a piece of expensive dive gear? As divers we all experience this at one point or another. I remember how frustrated I was when I lost a reel on a dive in the Keys. I saw it fall off of my rig and sink to the bottom, powerless to stop it. $125.00 dollars lost…
Why You Need to Clip Off Your Gear
First, dive gear is expensive and none of us want to lose our hard-earned equipment.
Second, clipping off our gear is important to protect the underwater environment. By making sure that our gear is both clipped off and snugly stowed away near our bodies and in pockets when we dive, we are ensuring the survival of the underwater environment that we so dearly love.
We are all familiar with danglies. It is the term used by divers to describe hanging gear. Maybe you’ve seen them on your own dives. You are swimming and you look at another diver who has an octopus or maybe a flashlight hanging low off of their BCD. Maybe you’ve even seen this gear clumsily crashing into a reef or wreck as you cringe in disbelief.
At Greatdivers we take the protection of the underwater environment VERY seriously. Because of this we teach all of our students how to properly stow away equipment so that it does not dangle and cause damage to the fragile underwater environment.
Over the years we have tried several things to stow gear to our BCDs but have found that tire inner tubes tend work extremely well. All you have to do is take a used tire inner tube (I got an old one from a local bike shop for free) and cut it into strips and use it to affix things like lights to the shoulder straps of your BCD.
How to Set Up Your BCD Pocket
Whether your BCD has pockets attached to it or you have purchased a pocket that you strap on to the webbing of your harness, all pockets should be properly set up.
Yes, it is true that pockets usually have zippers or Velcro that keep them closed, but that in and of itself is not always enough. It not uncommon for divers to reach into their BCD pockets, go to take something out and accidentally lose a piece of gear in the process.
This is why we configure our pockets to ensure that we never lose a piece of gear when we reach in to retrieve our compass, reel or any other piece of gear stowed away inside of it.
We do this by looping a piece of bungee cord inside our pocket. By doing so we can clip off all the gear in our pocket to the cord so that we can easily have access to anything inside the pocket without accidentally losing another piece of expensive equipment. The short video above illustrates how we do this so please take a minute to check it out.
The Different Types of Clips
There are several different kinds of clips that divers use to attach their gear to their BCDs. In this section, we are going to review the two we recommend and one that we think is dangerous and no diver should ever take with them in the water.
1. Bolt Snaps
2. Trigger Snaps
3. Carabiners
How to Tie Your Clips to Your Gear
We recommend braided nylon line.
We do not recommend that you use tie wraps to affix gear to clips. Tie wraps tend to deteriorate after repeated exposure to salt water and can fail. This happens quite often.
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Simple but effective, thanks for sharing.....
Thanks! Great advice. Also I like that u talk fast! I get impatient easily, so that was great. 😄
Excellent info. Thank you.
Thanks for putting this out I was looking for some way to keep things attached safely.
Thanks for that. Learned a few good points. I like the pace of the presentation too nice and quick. Thanks
Thanks for teaching mate...
Good video. Yes, u/w flash is great on any dive.
Awesome advice.
FABTASTIC Points I agree with everything you said!
Good video I learned something 😉
People ask why you have flashlights in the daytime... These people have clearly never dived in Britain ;)
@MegaEpicLlama
4 жыл бұрын
I enjoy lights even in great visibility. Nothing like being down at 25m and being able to get bright colours!
@davegink9222
2 жыл бұрын
Or Wisconsin
u can use silicone spray on ur boltsnaps and they get nice and smooth to operate again.
Yes that is true
Wow. You are a very experienced diver.
I have that same folding titanium diving knife.
Great video, I was wondering if you can recommend a style of attachment of a camera (5lbs) to the bcd?
@bloodymarvelous4790
3 ай бұрын
At 5 lbs I'm assuming it's a rig, and not just the camera. You should have an eye on the rig somewhere. Use a double ender bolt snap to clip it off to a D-ring.
What about plastic clips and zip tide?
What about using 550 cord.
How did you fuse the rubber together from the inner tube? The inner tube you used to secure the flashlight.
@biayo79
4 жыл бұрын
when using a backplate, and when you mounting it, you can put the rubber inside the "belts" of the jacket
@AdamHelb
4 жыл бұрын
They cut a pice of innertube to make a strong elastic band. To mount it on the webbing they take they have to undo the harness, mount the elastic band and redo the harness. It's rather laborious but only has to be done once.
When I’m at the surface, and I let go of my primary second stage, sometimes I have a hard time finding it again. Would you recommend a bungee necklace?
@bloodymarvelous4790
3 ай бұрын
I prefer to have my secondary second stage on a necklace. If you let go of your primary, you just take the secondary and then look for the primary. The benefit of having the secondary second stage on a necklace is that, if something goes wrong with your primary, you know where your secondary is. Having to look for your secondary in that situation is far worse than having to look for your primary. If you're not using a primary donate setup, use a silicone necklace for your secondary second stage so you can yank it loose when you need to donate it.
so... how to make your gear not dangling out... what loop you are using.
Where can I get those tire inner tubes you have?
@averyeinhorn
5 жыл бұрын
I prefer buying a pack of 10 "pony tail holders"; elastic covered with cloth. You can get black ones or colorful (easier to find on your rig).
Suggest to mention not to rely on cheap chinese (claimed) stainless steel , as its normally only 302 quallity. Will rust quickly with salt water. Use marine grade 316 made various western countries.
How come is his buckle is exactly in the middle?
@bloodymarvelous4790
3 ай бұрын
No crotch strap. You only need to move the buckle to the side if you have a crotch strap so you can access the buckle. The real question is, why doesn't his BP&W have a crotch strap.
#flappysnaghazard
👍👍👍
Only - people who always carry rechargeables, like flashlight, tend to forget to recharge or go without checking in a pinch, exactly because it's always on the rig.
@bloodymarvelous4790
3 ай бұрын
The great thing about a clip is that you can also take it off your rig. Take it off your rig when you get home. Clip it on to the rig when you go diving.
@whynottalklikeapirat
3 ай бұрын
@@bloodymarvelous4790 Sooo many ways it can go wrong. - Forget to unclip it from the float and bring home. - Forget to recharge - Remember you should recharge but too late to do so. - Recharge but leave for too long so charge fizzes or flashlight dies. - Forget to bring - Bring but forget to clip on - Clip on but forget reduced burn time due to winter cold. .- Times two because of your rechargeable spare.
@ttb1513
3 ай бұрын
@@whynottalklikeapiratWhat do you suggest that avoids these pitfalls?
@whynottalklikeapirat
3 ай бұрын
@@ttb1513 Well there is that 😄👍 I’m kinda being tongue in cheek. Still - back in the day you could just carry a box of batteries in your car or boat and leave the torches in the crate. Of course back then the trouble was that people would then forget to change batteries or keep track of how much they used, or which batteries were the fresh or used ones after. But at least you weren’t completely stranded at the site if something was off. And its usually faster buying a a regular battery once you’re out there than charging for 4-5 hours. I guess the main solution is just redundancy as always. I usually carry two old battery charged torches that I can leave with the gear, along with a battery supply, and one with rechargeable batteries and a set of charged spare batteries. I used to have one with a big builtin battery but it could only be charged from a wall wart and it took a while. That’s my main gripe with rechargeables is you have to plan ahead so much and when you’re out you’re out.
Clip it to you car or something in your basement, never to be lost.
Bolt snap is the only way to go. if they are good quality never rust. The rest is crap sorry.
Good video, but why do you keep saying “clip OFF” when you clearly mean “clip ON”?
@dramaticheadquarters5631
3 жыл бұрын
Because you clip it when you don't use it. If you don't use something then it's "off". Yes, it's a bit confusing thing.
Use a double ender bolt snap. You don't need to tie them off and one end attaches to the item and the other can be detached and used to hold on to the item.
@bloodymarvelous4790
3 ай бұрын
Double enders definitely have their place in SCUBA diving, but not for clipping off a knife, handheld light, or whistle. There is nothing to clip on to. You need to tie them to a bolt snap, and a small eye bolt snap is the right tool for the job there. Double enders are great for spools, reels, dSMB's, and Goodman handles.
Lost my titanium knife, Oof
I like the video but you talk wayyy too fast you'll lose a lot of viewers with this
OMG, that knot is so ugly and impractical. What you want is "Overhand Knot On a Bight" and that is it.
Got meth ?!