Flight traveling with spearfishing gear is gonna be a real (stressful) challenge!
Not to mention so many different rules at the customs in foreign visited countries and how worst it could be if not any rule apply about the gear: if there is doubt on the custom side, you have to try to clear it up...
Africa is definitively for me the worst place: I did diving there in about ten different countries and except South Africa, I could observed how you have to deal with many problems including corruption:(, unless you have a reliable connection in the local custom middle.
So I recently tested the gunbag ( Riffe) weigh for my 3 next different trips in fall: Guadeloupe, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.
The gun bag is about 65lbs (70lb allowed for oversize). Ok!:rolleyes1:
oversize and/ or overweight means you have to pay about 400 to 500 $ for each round trip. (about 50% price ticket!)..
and the diving gear?..
Fortunately some companies accept a free second luggage as a sport diving bag... but less and less.
you have to take if possible (but most of the time you cannot ) a direct flight in order to reduce the missing luggage risk
and if a no direct flight if possible to take the same company...but nothing is guaranteed
a pic of the gear:
T Botha, S Alexander and Riffe guns/ shafts
not to mention bands, spearpoints, grips
I must resized the T Botha board so that the all dimension is under the oversize limit 62"
impossible to add the bungees in this bag
I have to dismantle the guns so that all the suff fit in the gun bag…
but the grips scanned at the checkpoint may makes problem...
In February and before leaving Canada to Mexico, the police stepped in!!
believing I stashed weapons:nono:
1 hour debating the situation!!
Finally you get relieved only at the time gear i the whole gear in the hands you take the lift outside the arrival airport, no?;)
and you?