Water excursions with important documents (passport, money, etc)

[londonbridge247]

How does everyone handle doing shore excursions involving water and keeping up with important things like passports, money, etc? My wife and I will be snorkeling in Grand Cayman and spending the day at an all inclusive resort in Jamaica. Is it safe to leave these things in a locker or do I need to take them into the water with me and hope a waterproof bag keeps them dry?

[twinmommy08]

We bought a dive bag to keep out belongings in. Dh wore it like a belt on his swim truncks. That thing is big enought to hold both passports, money, and other things like cell phone, etc. I bought it from dive store on-line a few years back. Works wonders for us.

[redlef]

How does everyone handle doing shore excursions involving water and keeping up with important things like passports, money, etc? My wife and I will be snorkeling in Grand Cayman and spending the day at an all inclusive resort in Jamaica. Is it safe to leave these things in a locker or do I need to take them into the water with me and hope a waterproof bag keeps them dry?

 

I have a laminated photocopy of my passport, I leave the original on the ship. Put it with a few dollars cash and a credit card in a zip lock bag, which I put in one of those plastic beach accessory boxes (about the size of a deck of cards) you can buy at a dollar store. A good tip is to put a thin layer of silicone grease on the O-ring to keep it moist and help it seal properly.

 

Never left it on the beach, but when I go diving, I store it with my dive gear on the boat. Never had a problem.

[HowTheWestWasFun]

Just get a waterproof container to take everything in, and if you're really worried, have someone keep watch and rotate who it is while the others are in the water.

[Froufie]

Get a 'beach safe' - which is a waterproof container/wallet which hands around your neck at all times. I keep all important stuff in there (the rest is in my beachbag). Even if my beachbag goes missing at least I have my id, cards, $$ etc and can get back on the ship!

 

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[londonbridge247]

If we were to rent a beach locker, are our documents safe there? Would you leave you money and passports in a beach locker?

[Froufie]

If we were to rent a beach locker, are our documents safe there? Would you leave you money and passports in a beach locker?

 

Depends on where the beach lockers were located - and what they looked like? (e.g. are they visible to me? hidden away somewhere? Banged up and rusty? - whose lock am I using?).

 

Personally would prefer to have $$/cards on my person - I never take my passport off the ship.