It’s time to prepare for vacation.
Here’s a great dive travel checklist—a detailed “know before you go” reminder for your next Kids Sea Camp adventure.
Trip planning
- Check the KSC calendar
- Weather and clothing needs
- Currency exchange or credit cards accepted
- Call your credit card company and tell them you are out of the country
- Valid passports
- Medical treatments available
- Check airline reservations
- Distribute your international vacation plans to a friend or family member who needs to know
- Travel insurance
- Emergency phone number
Must-haves for your carry-on bag
- Snacks
- Reg and dive computer
- Swim shorts
- 2 extra shirts
- Passports
- Dive cards
Dive Travel Checklist
- Check all your equipment
- Suppose your diving equipment has not been serviced in two years. Get it serviced!
- Certification cards (for the whole family)
- Dive computer batteries (make sure they work!)
- Logbook
- Bring an extra mask fog
- Bring a spare mask
- Prepare your new mask (use the overnight toothpaste process)
- Super Glue
- Bring a small first-aid kit, or ensure the dive shop has one on each boat and at the resort. (All Kids Sea Camp resorts do, by the way)
- Extra sunscreen
- Motion sickness pills
- Aspirin
- Nasal Decongestant
- Meat Tenderizer
- Dive lights
- Gloves (If allowed)
The vacation is over list
- Double-check all your family’s dive gear, including BCs, fins, masks, snorkels, and wetsuits. This is a no-brainer, but it assumes you will lose something if you don’t double-check all the gear.
- Airline tickets: Check in online the day before
- Check out all the new photos in the KSC gallery.
At home
- Thoroughly rinse all gear and allow for proper drying
- Repeat gear double-check
- Put dive gear in an organized space (This makes the next dive trip easier to prepare for)
- Replace used items with spare parts and medical supplies
- Write a thank-you email to Kids Sea Camp for such a great vacation.