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Preparing For Dive Trips – Building Your Freediving Checklist

by Mark Platau / Thursday, 09 September 2021 / Published in Spearfishing 101, Travel
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Preparing For Dive Trips – Building Your Freediving Checklist

Proper planning prevents poor performance. Having a solid freediving checklist, whether mental or written is a great tool for helping ensure you have a good trip. Before every trip you will want to double check that you have everything you may need for your dive trip. There is nothing worse than getting 10, 20, or even 100 miles offshore to realize you only have one dive fin. It makes for a challenging day of diving for sure.

The Basics

For essential pieces of gear it is not a bad idea to keep a spare in your dive bag. This may not be realistic for some pieces of gear given size or expense. It does make a lot of sense to keep a spare mask, snorkel, and weight belt in your gear bag. A spare pair of carbon fiber fins may be out of the cards, but a spare pair of plastic fins may be more realistic. The same challenge persists from keeping a spare speargun with you. That may be unrealistic while you are starting out, but a spare shaft may be more reasonable. There are only a few unfortunate situations where a spare wetsuit would be necessary. Remember to double check your freediving checklist and equipment before any dive trip. 

The Specialized Equipment for a Freediving Checklist

Some equipment just takes up a lot of space or makes a dive boat cluttered or disorganized. As a result you may not want everyone on the boat to bring a spare set of something. It may make more sense to have a spare for the boat instead. Things like floats, floatlines, or other blue water spearfishing gear. That means you may need a personal checklist as well as a communal freediving checklist with your dive buddies. 

Your specific style of diving may require different equipment than is listed below. You may need to make your own judgement calls on what you need or want in you kit. Every diver has their own preferences. 

Here is a version of a freediving checklist you may find helpful:

Single Day Dive Trip Checklist (Basics)

Item

Quantity
Mask

2

Snorkel and Keeper

2

Weight Belt and Weight

2

Wetsuit or Rash Guard

1

Fins`

2

Booties (Pair)

2

Speargun or Pole Spear

2

Gloves (Pair)

2

Dive Bag

1

Flashlight (Torch)

1

Rigging Kit with Plyers

1

Trauma Kit/ First Aid Kit

1

Measuring Tape (for measuring fish)

1

Bluewater Dive Trip Addendum

Float

1

Floatline

1

Break-Away Adapter

2

Flasher Float

1

Flasher Rig

1

Shore Dive Trip Addendum

Float with Dive Flag

1

Floatline

1

Rigged Kelp Clip (in applicable locations)

1

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