#8046
Rich-D-Fish - 3/03/2011 12:35 AM
Two items for me. First I regret buying a $180 dive bag. The zippers are impossible to keep waxed and moving easily. Wet gear inside soaks through to my car, and dripping gear on the boat soak through to the inside. I bought a $42 Stanley tool chest from Lowes that is MUCH more practical. When I travel I use an old suitcase anyhow that doesn’t scream "expensive scuba gear" to the thieves.


Second item is my giant DSLR camera housing with Dual strobes. My camera setup just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Ultimately, I ended up with a rig that took me an hour to assemble, and hour to clean and put away, takes up way too much space on a boat, requires a lot of education to get good photos, difficult to manage on shore dives, and took an extra piece of luggage to transport on vacations. I sold it at a loss, bought the smallest camera and single strobe I could find with the money, and am MUCH happier for it. Point & Shoot for me!!