it's all secured, all stable, and ready to do our dive with. First thing I do is put

the BC unit on, the bottom of the tank kind of facing my back, just a little bit more

room that way for the valves and stuff up here. Just make sure everything, all the regulators

and all the hoses are out of the sand, all clean and all kind of within the boat, and

kind of pack it down in, and you draw the elastic bands over this, and then get at the

little notch under here, kind of pop out. One thing I like to do too, is use the dive

flag, just throw that right back here, kind of just the best way to put it, and just pull

both these bands back in this lock and latch them both in place like this. There's a little

bit of air left in the tank yet, so what you actually do is inflate a little bit with the

inflater hose, get a little buoyancy in case it drops out or spills outside the boat, they

can float a little bit. One thing too, this BC has a weight around your waist where you

can actually put the weight pockets in, but I don't do that right here because otherwise

it would be too heavy, and if that thing dropped out of the boat, the BC unit would sink and

you would lose it somewhere in the ocean, so I wouldn't recommend doing that right there.

Once that is in place, I can move to the front of the boat and install the weight pockets

in the nose, kind of where they can't slide around, just along the bottom right here,

and then I put the blue bag, or the gear bag, in the front hatch and then latch that down,

and put this compartment on. And again, the basic rule is to just keep everything secure,

make sure everything is always locked up so, for example, this rope should be drawn all

the way in, the anchor line, there could be a little left out, but this shouldn't be out

here. In case it spills or you tip, you don't want that line to be wrapped around your ankle

or neck or whatever. So again, just make sure that it's all secure and ready to go. And

then lastly just bring in the anchor someplace, wherever it can kind of fit, and just keep

it right there and you're good to go, it's all packed and ready. You kind of give it

a quick check, make sure everything is secure, not going to go anywhere, not going to pop

out, and then you can go ahead and go into the ocean.