Underwater photographers frequently ask what I use to transport my housings when flying to exotic destinations around the world. Back in the days when airlines were generous and gave divers large baggage allowances I used the industry standard pelican case. It was both big and heavy duty. The bummer if any is that it weighed a lot.
Over the last 3-4 years airlines around the world have dramatically decreased the number of bags and weight allowed. As spending hundreds of dollars on excess baggage is not something I want to do on each leg of a journey, I did some research and looked for heavy duty cases that were light weight. In the end I selected the Rolling Studio case made by Tamrac, the leader manufacturer of bags & cases for professional photographers. It is large and reinforced with light weight plastic armor. Empty the case weighs about 20 pounds.
Today I did a dry run just to see how much I could put in and I was amazed. I packed two u/w camera housings, 4 ports, 4 large strobes, 5 sets of sync cords, 2 extra strobe batteries, 2 strobe chargers, 2 camera battery chargers, tools, and spare parts. The total weight was 55 pounds. If I had to take 5 pounds of gear out, I could and put in my other suitcase.
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