SLNT Waterproof Faraday Duffel - USA
A roll-top bag that will keep things safe from the elements as well as digital intrusion
For the last eight months I’ve been using the SLNT Waterproof Faraday Duffle - USA bag for everything from a gym bag to a dive gear bag to a range bag. Its carried equipment for a variety of tasks and personal events as well as travel. Its not just a low profile bag that looks slick but also keeps the dry stuff dry and quiet stuff quiet when its supposed to be. SLNT has become more and more a part of my daily life as a privacy advocate since they emerged as a brand focused on not just your digital protection but also well being.
The nice thing about having a waterproof duffel is all the times you don’t realize you need it. Like when you dash out in the morning and don’t screw your water bottle lid on all the way. Wet clothes and gear after a dive on leather seats…not an issue. The roll-top allows you overload the bag if you can sacrifice your digital protections. I usually have a few smaller bags they make so its not been an issue for me. Cramming fins, mask, boots, weights, etc. left me with a lot sticking out through the top but the bag held up just fine. On top of its internal shielding the outside is a sleek coating that seems pretty durable with all I’ve put it through. There is no evidence of peeling or abrasions that I could find when I wrote this.
I am on the road a lot to places conventional travelers don’t always get the opportunity to be. Its one of the many things I am grateful for in my experience of life. Travel can come in modern luxury, a cargo plane where the AC drips on your bag for hours while you’re sleeping in your hammock (wish my bag was waterproof that time), or in the back of whatever the indigenous travel method is be it mechanical or animal. Those places I tend to find myself are not usually next to an REI or even a store most people would recognize. Sometimes when I travel there are people who want to take things digitally that they are unable to acquire physically which is why I like SLNT so much. That all being said when I hit the road I need to be self contained for whatever the path puts me through. The nice part about this bag is its light, resilient, packs up in minimal space, and more importantly to me serves more than one use. Its easy to toss in the bottom of another bag or suitcase so I have the ability to diversify my carry as well as my signature when I arrive at my destination.
Enough about why I like it lets get to the facts of the bag -
The bag is made of a 400D Waterproof Nylon and lined with SLNT’s Multishield® faraday shielding material. The buckles and clips are Duraflex® UTX buckles. Its not a giant duffle bag sized bag but its more than adequate at an external 23.6 x 11 x 11 inches with an advertised 40 liter volume. All total the bag weighs in at 2.15 lbs. for those of us limited on weight at times. Now for the tech info - “The main compartment of this bag is a Faraday cage and is rated to the following specifications:
Silent Pocket® Faraday Technology Instantly Blocks:
Silent Pocket® with Multishield® (Faraday Shielding Material) is MIL‐STD‐188‐125‐2 compliant, and exceeds IEEE 299-2006 (1 - 40GHz) standards. (100,000:1 reduction, see testing page here)
Blocks 100 dB+ Cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, RFID, NFC, EMP, and EMF Radiation
Blocks CDMA, GSM, DCS, PHS, 3G, 4G, 5G, LTE
Blocks WiFi (2.4 - 5 GHz), Bluetooth (2.4 GHz), and GPS (1-2 GHz)
Blocks RFID and NFC @ 13.56 MHz
Shields against EMP, HEMP, CME, Solar Flare, and static shock
Blocks Carrier, hardware, and OS agnostics”