HEETA Dry Bag Waterproof for Women Men, Roll Top Lightweight Dry Storage Bag Backpack with Phone Case for Travel Swimming Boating Kayaking Paddle Board Camping Beach Accessories (Orange, 5L)

If you’re like me, you come to reviews before purchase. It’s how I purchased this bag in the smallest version on a whim for a white water floating trip. HERE IS THE PROOF YOU NEEDED. Long story short, a raised river created absolute turmoil and sent me FLYING into the air as I had the strap of this bag on my shoulder and went CRASHING under water. I was swimming WITH this bag completely submerged before my brain realized this bag held 3 iPhones, a bank card, and 2 sets of keys (with other items) and threw it up to the surface. It was too late to question and I had to paddle myself to shore with the bag repeatedly half drenched in water. I accepted the complete destruction. I opened the bag at the shore and NOT ONE DROP OF WATER WAS INSIDE. I kid you not. If you’re looking for a bag for the “what ifs” ..THIS IS IT. I was the only one whose valuables survived by the way. Also, I will never do this again but STILL glad to have bought the bag.

The Dry Bag: I purchased the 5L bag. The instructions for closing the bag are a bit oversimplified. It says to fold it over 3x, then buckle the strap. I found it to be more like 2.5x. It's easier to see the correct orientation if you have a couple things in the bag to maintain the shape. When closed, the strap should be facing flat side up, with the buckle secured above that forming a perfect carrying handle (though there is an optional handle on the side as well). The 5L size has enough space to hold a full size towel (neatly rolled), a pair of flip flops (assuming you dont have massive feet), and your phone, keys and wallet. Thats all I'm planning on having out on the water with me. What you put in the bag will affect the buoyancy, but all the empty space will be air and help keep it afloat. By the appearance and feel of the bag, I do not get the reassuring sense that it is particularly sturdy. I wouldnt trust the plastic to hold up with heavy items or lots of abuse. I'd keep the total weight of the items low, about 5lbs. The folding of the plastic works really well to seal off the bag, but I'm afraid that this would also be the weak point of the structure after long hours in the sun and repeated use. I'll have to update this review after a while to see if it holds up, a lot of other reviews show tears at this crease. The whole point of the bag to me is complete watertightness and buoyancy (at least temporarily) so if I slip up on my SUP, all my things can be safely retrieved after I recover. Unless you have a buddy on the shore, you'll want to keep things with you so that your phone or keys arent stolen from wherever you set them down. The phone pouch: Lanyard is a bit cheap and doesnt seem comfy or convenient, I probably wont use it. The pouch will provide buoyancy to the phone, enough to suspend the top clasp at or above the water surface. I filled my kitchen sink up and submerged my phone within the pouch intermittently for a couple minutes. Any time I let go of the phone it would pitch up to reach the surface. I retrieved my phone from the pouch completely dry afterward. If you are out on the water and drop your phone in, this will not only protect the phone from the water infiltration, but also prevent it from plummeting to the bottom. Depending on the water transparency, visibility of a lost phone may be spotty, you might even put some reflective tape on the plastic retainer to help with that. The touch screen and forward camera should work fine with the phone in the pouch, the face cam seemed pretty blurry because there was more air/fogging on that side, you may get inconsistent results based on the shape of the phone. In case you were wondering, the touch screen will not work once submerged, so dont plan on taking any underwater pictures. Though I wouldn't recommend this for any sort of underwater usage anyway, I can't imagine the pouch is air tight once you start adding in the pressure of a couple feet down. For a free accessory, I give this a big thumbs up!

Used this bag about 20 times. It now has a hole in the plastic where the top get folded down. Unfortunately it is just below the last fold. Too bad as I liked the bag.

Je me suis trompé de grandeur mais c’était super pas d’eau qui entre.

Love this bag! It is on the smaller side but it held a towel, phone, and wallet. Put it in the water to test it and it kept everything dry