I have not yet found an appropriately small, soft-sided bag with easy-grip handles and heavily-padded shoulder straps that can be used as backpack style, to carry about 40 pounds of diving weight bags. The inadequate bags I have tried tend to cut uncomfortably into me, requiring all kinds of ad hoc padding, and worse their seams fall apart relatively quickly from use with this heavy load.
Dive shop no use: divers usually just toss around their already loaded weight belts, sling the belt over a shoulder, or put them at the bottom of a huge, incredibly heavy everything bag. My weights, especially the extra weights involved in shifting from freshwater to saltwater, keep losing themselves, getting filthy, lodging inside remote parts of pieces of wetsuit, and generally being a pain in the ... neck to collect and use on trips.
Expedition weight drybags with shoulder straps are way too big. Bowling bag? How do weight-lifters move extra plates?
Anybody know of something appropriate?
Thanks.