Scuba diver's marker buoy and dry box

A dive buoy/dry box assembly comprising:

• a hollow float assembly of canister-like configuration having a closed lower end and an open upper end, a sealing lid in hinged attachment proximate to said upper end and adapted to close said upper end in fluid-tight sealing engagement therewith and latch means for releasably maintaining said lid in said sealing engagement with said upper end, said float assembly and said sealing lid being comprised of polypropylene plastic;
• a collapsible pole-like marker staff having marker flag means mounted at one end thereof and attachment means mounted at the opposite end thereof for detachably affixing said marker staff to said sealing lid, a collapsible pole-like ballast staff having a ballast weight mounted at one end thereof and attachment means mounted at the opposite end thereof for detachably affixing said ballast staff to said closed lower end of said float assembly, said attachment means on each said marker staff and said ballast staff each comprising threaded engagement means for engaging mating threaded engagement means appropriately located on said float assembly, said attachment means on said marker staff being sufficiently physically different from said attachment means on said ballast staff to prevent either of said staffs from being incorrectly attached in place of the other of said staffs, said marker staff and said ballast staff being comprised of a plurality of fiberglass tubing sections urged together in aligned engagement by internally connected elastic bands;
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• a buoy line storage reel detachably mounted on said float assembly surrounding said float assembly, said storage reel when so mounted having its axis of rotation disposed in a plane generally parallel to a plane containing said ballast staff when said ballast staff is affixed to said float assembly.