Lift bag

[sandy]

I am intro cave with plans to take apprentice and full cave in the next 6 months - still perfecting skills. I will also be taking adv nitrox and deco in the near future. In preparation of the deco class (and safety in the ocean if needed), I just bought an OMS 50# sausage lift bag. I plan to practice with it during my safety stops. I currently dive with a wing/backplate, a single 95, and a wetsuit. By the time I take I take the classes, I will be using double 95s and probably a drysuit. My question is: where do most of you keep the lift bag? Is it attached to a D ring, your back plate, or in a pocket? Any suggestions on placement and how to secure it are much appreciated. Thanks for your help.

Safe Diving.

Never owned one.

I'll probably get one eventually, for the Oriskany, but up to now, all of my diving has been in caves or on recreational reefs (let's all look at the pretty fish), so I've never had a use for one.

Russell

[Yellow Odin]

I keep one of mine attached to the bottom of the backplate with two loops of bungie. Another gets tucked under the innertube pieces on my cylinder just behind the wing - out of the way until I need it.

I still need to get a closed bag for the scooter.

[Anders Knudsen S]

I have mine in my right pocket, attached to a 30m spool, together with my backup mask and jon-line.
I use a bolt snap to clip everything to a piece of bundgi cord, that means I can just pull everything out, without having to think about loosing stuff.

[DR2K]

Hi

I tried at least 3 D.S. and all of them worked fine. Use whatever you're comfortable with.
- I really like to use bungee cord, latex or silicone straps; they are cheap and very modular, but you can lose equipment easily.
- Dive Rite Quick Draw is excellent, but leave the sleeve open, it's hard to open under pressure.
- The OMS EDS works very good if you're going to carry more than one EDS and you're not too worried about stream lining. And it is very expensive.

I used the 3 systems and all of them are very good. From my point of view the important thing is practice a lot (deployment) and use it always in the bottom of your rig, and with a spool not a reel.

Good luck and safe diving.

ED

[FW]

What Russell was trying to say is, cave divers don't take anything into the cave they don't need. Unless you are cave diving in a blue hole, don't take the lift bag cave diving.

[Jay]

You won't need it in a cave.
I have a DR pouch with whistle, sausage, flares, spool, etc that I use for OW wrecks. I have my DR lift bag pouch attached to the bottom eyelets of the pouch with tie wraps. The top of the pouch has two SS snaps on it. When I go OW tech diving I clip this to the bottom of my backplate.

[Kevin Gonzalez]

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I have a DR pouch with whistle, sausage, flares, spool, etc that I use for OW wrecks. I have my DR lift bag pouch attached to the bottom eyelets of the pouch with tie wraps. .

Hello Jay,
Just curious. where do you keep your snorkel? A highly underestimated yet essential and very valuable piece of TRUE survival/self rescue gear is the snorkel, whether worn or stowed. I know a significant number of people don't do either. For myself, I always wear (and actually use) a snorkel for open water.
Thanks, kevin