Gear
What’s in Jess’s crate
The gear Jess dives with, tested on reefs, on wrecks and in currents worldwide.
No affiliate links, only personal preferences.
Dive kit
Essentials
- Computer
- Shearwater Perdix 3.0
- BCD
- Halcyon Evolve wing (40 lb) with carbon fiber backplate and harness
- Mask
- Tusa Ceos with prescription lenses; 35 mm-wide bifocals for photography and video
Regulators
- Sidemount
- Dive Rite XT2 Sidemount Regulator
- Stage
- Dive Rite XT1/XT4
Tanks
- Aluminum
- Thunderbird Aluminum 80 with XS Scuba PVD Pro/Convertible Valve
- Aluminum
- Thunderbird AL-40 Cylinder
Exposure protection
- Drysuit
- DUI TLS
- Dry gloves
- KUBI dry glove system
- Undergarment
- Santi BZ420 heated undergarment
- Wet
- Various 1.5–7 mm wetsuits; Fourth Element tech shorts
Lights
- Primary
- Light Monkey 30A canister with Halcyon Focus 2.0 corded light head
- Backup
- Halcyon secondary lights
Safety & tools
Safety & emergency
- Insurance
- Divers Alert Network (DAN) professional liability & dive accident insurance
- First aid
- First aid kit; DAN portable oxygen kit
- Signaling
- Whistle, mirror, Light Monkey strobe, Garmin GPSMAP 67i inReach handheld GPS & satellite communicator
- Gas analyzer
- Divesoft Analyzer He/O2 Set Blender
Tools & spares
- Surface
- Delayed surface marker buoy; lift bag
- Cutting
- Line cutter; shears
- Navigation
- Compass; wet notes
- Spares
- Backup mask; save-a-dive kit
Camera kit
Camera
- Body
- Sony a7 III full-frame mirrorless
- Standard zoom
- Sony 28–70mm
- Wide-angle zoom
- Sony FE 16–35mm F2.8 GM (SEL1635GM)
- Telephoto zoom
- Sony FE 70–200mm f/2.8 GM OSS
- Macro
- Subsea macro lens with dome port
- Housing
- Meikon 40m/130ft underwater housing kit with aluminium tray/grip
- Strobes
- 2 × Inon S-2000 S-TTL strobes
- Video light
- Fisheye FIX NEO 3000 DX
Where Jess shops
- Evolution Scuba
This is where Jess got her custom-fitted drysuit and heated undergarments, along with much of her gear. Pair it with an Elements class or a Doubles and Drysuit Primer and learn how to use it correctly!
- Reef Photo & Video
- Dive Gear Express
- Dive Right In Scuba
- Prescription Dive Masks
- DAN Divers Alert Network
For portable oxygen kits, emergency kits, and insurance.