red sea trip

[ian platts]

has anyone got a red sea check list?
cheers

[Steve Walker]

has anyone got a red sea check list?
cheers

Click on the tab which says "What", above and to the right on the Travel Club forum page.

[Jeanne]

If you are taking your own gear, take everything you'd need in the UK, apart from your drysuit, obviously change that for a full length semi-dry or steamer, and get some booties for your fins if you have strap fins, leave behind gloves and hoods, knives, hammers, crowbars, lifting bags etc., but do consider taking a reel and delayed smb, and you'd be pretty much there. If you don't want to take a torch with you and the battery charge gear, you can hire one too, you'd only need this on a night dive.

I don't know whether your question related to gear only, but I would also pack a basic survival style medication kit including, pain killers (paracetamol, ibuprofen), good antiseptic wipes, ear disinfectant (get your chemist to prepare you a recipe of jar + dropper of 'Swim-ear' if you can't buy the formulated product, they love doing this, getting so little to 'prepare' these days), plasters in various sizes, a course of broad spectrum antibiotics if you are going on liveaboard to deal with mainly gastric infections, but also other soft tissue infections (ear, sinus, cuts/wounds)and that you need to get from your doctor, re-hydration salts (flat lemonade or one litre of clean drinking water + 1 tea spoon salt, 3 or more tablespoons sugar, also do the job), Pepto Dismol (it's, so, so good for any gut rot), Sudafed, and good total sun block. That kit of mine fits in a very small zip bag, and has been used, abused, and raided by others more times than I can say, and saved the day, and the one after.

I'd take also a good old fashioned bar of antibacterial soap and wash, shower with it. Tip: Cidal is best (so says my quack, honest).

Other than that, nothing special is needed!

Have a good time

Jeanne

[Alan Taylor]

has anyone got a red sea check list?
cheers

Checked Atlas, yes its still there.

Have fun

Alan