Originally Posted by
MapleLeaf93
Don't know about your camera equipment, but at least for your dive gear, according to
https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...ting-equipment, you should have received a waiver as long as there wasn't anything unrelated to the equipment also in the bag. In particular, it explicitly states, "We’re glad to waive the oversize fee or overweight fee for the items listed in this section". And "Scuba Equipment" is explicitly listed in that section.
The camera equipment was under 50lbs, it was just my dive bag that was over...thanks for the info on the sports equipment/dive gear, I didn't know that!!