Originally Posted by
MSPpete
I have placed scuba fins in my checked luggage for years and the bag was always opened and searched by TSA. A diving friend told me to lay the fins flat on top of the clothing so the XRay would show them as fins. I had been storing them along the edge of the bag. They must have looked like a long knife that way. Started laying them flat and no TSA search since.
Do you check your other scuba equipment with the finns? The respirator or breather, things like that? I have had to check lots of scuba equipment, but never because of the finns, always because of the heavy metalic scuba items that the ctx can not scan.