Well I have recieved my Ikelite Housing (10D) and 2 DS125 Strobes and am slightly suprised by the overall side.

Does anyone have any hints or tips on handling this combo in water or out?

Outside of a couple of weeks down south each year I will be using it in 46 f waters of Vancouver Island each week.

Give it kisses before each dive, curse it later if you must

I assume you mean overall "size" not "side". I made a nice carrying strap for my Aquatica housing with my D70 and twin DS125's by taking rubber coated 1/4 inch cable and a couple of snap hooks. It makes a nice way to carry the camera on land and a nice way to hand it in or out of the water.
And I used to think my Nikonos V with twin SB 105's was big.
Good luck.

If you have TLC or ULCS or similar arms the best way to hold the unit is to fold the arms over each other on top of the unit and carry that way.

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Remember to secure the tray to the housing regally so you don’t get a leak, as my friend did. Haven’t seen the housing my self, so I’m not sure what he meant. But I understood there are two bolts thru the housing with nuts that the tray is secured to with nuts.
Correct me if I’m wrong her.

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I suppose you are right, Mike. Since my wife and I have a long distance marriage (she lives in Arizona and me in CA), I gotta have a love/hate relationship with something

Joe

DRFISCUS-
Would you elaborate on your contraption a little?
Thank's

Essentially my "contraption" is just a heavy rubber-coated cable with metal clips on both ends hooked to the handles or ultralite arms on either side of my Aquatica housing. I saw somebody use something similar down in the Keys a few months ago (at one of Tom Stack's courses) and I spent a morning fashioning it with a helpful kid at Lowes. It is readily removable but it gives you something to grab onto when walking on land with the camera and it gives anybody handing your heavy camera down to you or pulling it up from the water something to grab onto without having to hold onto of of your flash arms. I am out of town this weekend but when I return home I will try my hand at attaching a photo or two. Easy and cheap enough to make with a little creativity - and it is unusual to say something in underwater photography is trully inexpensive.
Good luck.
Andy

Sounds like a great idea. Mucho gracias amigo- best idea I had yet is a dog leash........

For carrying my system around and on and off boats, I find a soft, folding coolbag very useful. It takes up no space in my dive bag - and provides padded protection for the camera/strobes when not in the water. $20 from a camping shop.

Like other posters, I reckon folding the arms to form a triangle with the apex at the top is a pretty good way to make it easier for it to passed to you in the water. Its possible to use some Fastex clips to secure the arms together.

Good suggestions. If I ever find a dive Op that supplies wheelbarrows for transporting camera gear to and from the boat, I think they'd be tops on my list.

Rand