Essentials

  • Certification Card
  • Mask (optional snorkel)
  • Hood
  • Fins
  • Weights
  • BCD
  • Dive computer(s)
  • Regulators with pressure gauge, BCD hose, and/or drysuit hose
  • Drysuit / wetsuit
  • Dry gloves / wet gloves / wet boots
  • Drysuit undergarments, socks, glove liners
  • Dive light(s)
  • Dive knife
  • Dive reel
  • SMB (surface marker buoy) and spool / reel

Open Ciruit specific

  • Tank(s)
  • Stage bottles, if needed, with regulators

CCR specific

  • Rebreather
  • Rebreather tanks
  • Bailout tanks with regulators

Optional

  • Compass
  • Save a dive kit
  • Mask defog
  • Whistle
  • Marine rescue radio with GPS
  • Camera