small smb for travelling???

Due to the restraints of luggage allowances my dive gear alone gets a
huge chunck of the allowance and so some things always have to be left
behind!!Since I am going away and planning on some drift dives I would
really like some form of smb. I know i could hire one but if i can get
one for a suitable price I may as well buy one. When i was in the
maldives last year i was given a small pocket smb with about 6m of
line attached and some kind of weight which fitted easily into my bcd
pocket. Dos anyone know o make of a similar one her or a reel which is
both small, light and robust?

On 13 Feb 2004 00:49:47 -0800, dippy_diver@hotmail.com (dd) wrote:

>Due to the restraints of luggage allowances my dive gear alone gets a
>huge chunck of the allowance and so some things always have to be left
>behind!!Since I am going away and planning on some drift dives I would
>really like some form of smb. I know i could hire one but if i can get
>one for a suitable price I may as well buy one. When i was in the
>maldives last year i was given a small pocket smb with about 6m of
>line attached and some kind of weight which fitted easily into my bcd
>pocket. Dos anyone know o make of a similar one her or a reel which is
>both small, light and robust?

Any dsmb without an over pressure relief valve would do the job
(although for the minor extra size I would go for one with a valve)

As regards the reel. Consider either a drop line or a spool as both
are considerably smaller than the smallest reel

HTH



Pete
diving 'at' melbourne 'dot' me 'dot' uk

The one I use on holiday I think is a small Polar Bear one (I think - will
check tomorrow) with 10m of line on and I just attach a 2lb weight to it
borrowed from dive centre. Wrap the line round the weight and it is easy to
store.

Deploy when I get back to about 8m. Nice and fine - given it is holiday
diving as opposed to grim UK stuff , no need for deployment from depth.

Snash