Diving equipment pack

Abstract

A scuba gear travel bag, possessing an expandable compartment, wherein the means for expanding said compartment utilizes a zipper, having a two piece zipper tape, with separable and engagable male and female profile elements. The zipper initiates at a location on the travel bag, at or near a central point of expansion, in the expansion dimension, and spirals around the circumference of the bag, expanding generally outwardly away from the central point of expansion in a mirror image configuration. It also possesses a removable, self-storage subunit with a support template for an integrated diver's buoyancy compensator, wherein the buoyancy compensator possesses a zipper fastening means for fully engaging or disengaging the compensator from the travel bag.

1 . A buoyancy compensator harness system comprising: a support template defining a front face, a back face, and a perimeter; further comprising a shoulder harness comprising a plurality of shoulder straps and a waist belt fixedly attached to said back face, and one or more zipper fasteners, fastened at or near and contiguous with the support template perimeter. 
     
     
         2 . The buoyancy compensator harness system of  claim 1 , further comprising a shoulder strap cover panel reversibly fastened to said support template. 
     
     
         3 . The buoyancy compensator harness system of  claim 2  comprising a zipper with a plurality of positionable zipper slides reversibly fastening said cover panel to said support template. 
     
     
         4 . A scuba gear travel bag, comprising: a generally rectangular storage compartment, having a plurality of wall components, defining an internal space and an external surface, the wall components are generally contiguous and form a front panel, a back panel, a plurality of side panels, a top panel, and a bottom panel, wherein the front, back, and side panels cooperatively engage a zipper comprising: a zipper slide cooperatively contacting interlocking teeth on a two-piece zipper tape, the two-piece zipper tape forming an upper zipper tape piece and a lower zipper tape piece, said pieces incorporating male and female profile elements which are separable and engagable; wherein the zipper tape initiates at a position in a selected expansion dimension, the zipper upper tape and lower tape pieces are configured to spiral around the external surface of the bag in a widening mirror image configuration from the point of initiation. 
     
     
         5 . A scuba gear carrier bag of  claim 4  comprising: a support template defining a front face, a back face, and a perimeter; further comprising a shoulder harness comprising a plurality of shoulder straps and a waist belt fixedly attached to said back face, and one or more zipper fasteners, fastened at or near and contiguous with the support template perimeter. 
     
     
         6 . A scuba gear carrier bag of  claim 5  comprising: a shoulder strap cover panel reversibly fastened to said support template. 
     
     
         7 . A scuba gear carrier bag of  claim 6  comprising: a zipper with a plurality of positionable zipper slides reversibly fastening said cover panel to said support template.