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Re: Air travel with a sextant
From: Trevor Kenchington
Date: 2004 Dec 9, 16:58 -0400
From: Trevor Kenchington
Date: 2004 Dec 9, 16:58 -0400
Jared wrote: > Alex- >plastic box called "all weather sextant case", $84 with foam inside> > > Probably a Pelican case or similar. Pelican has earned their reputation the > hard way: Their products simply WORK. By all means, by a Pelican case [snip] But be warned: The SCUBA-diving fraternity have found that packing anything in Pelican cases and checking them in airline baggage invites theft at the airport. The percentage of underwater cameras packed that way which disappear en route is way higher than for cameras stowed in nondescript suitcases. A sextant inside a Pelican case inside a suitcase or a battered cardboard box might get through OK. Still, I'd take it as carry-on. If you can use a sextant as a weapon, you can just as easily use a computer and there is no question of sending all laptops in the cargo hold. Trevor Kenchington -- Trevor J. Kenchington PhD Gadus@iStar.ca Gadus Associates, Office(902) 889-9250 R.R.#1, Musquodoboit Harbour, Fax (902) 889-9251 Nova Scotia B0J 2L0, CANADA Home (902) 889-3555 Science Serving the Fisheries http://home.istar.ca/~gadus
