Exped
Exped Drybag Versa Compression (19 L)
- Waterproof build: 6/10 How well its build keeps water out, from the published seams, closure and submersion claim.
- Weight for its size: 7/10 How much it adds to your pack for the space it protects.
Squeezing a sleeping bag or clothes down inside or onto the outside of a rucksack: three side straps and a flat valve
- Capacity
- 19 L
- Weight
- 100 g
- Seams
- Taped
- Closure
- Roll top
- Fabric
- 70 denier
Where to buy
Needle Sports £31.50 In stock. Delivery £3.95. 2 in stock. The shop lists 90 g and calls it Exped Waterproof Drybag Versa Compression. £3.95 standard under £50, free over £50.
View at shop: Needle SportsExped UK £35 In stock. Delivery £6. 19 L (deep sea) variant in stock at the list price. Free over £75; under £75 DPD next day £6.00 (Royal Mail Tracked 48 £3.60 only under £25).
View at shop: Exped UKPrices checked 8 Nov 2026 on each shop's own page; shops can change them. We earn no commission on these links; shops are listed by price. More
Our ratings (out of 10)
1 to 10, compared with the whole market. Each says what it's based on. How we score
Waterproof build
From maker's figures 6/10How well its build keeps water out, from the published seams, closure and submersion claim. 6: A bit better than average.
Roll-top closure. Both Exped pages list the seams as taped in their spec tables, but Exped UK's description says completely seam-welded and exped.com's says fully heat-sealed, so the pages disagree; we band the lower-scoring taped. Exped UK says it is not submersible and neither page makes a submersion claim: the 3 band (taped seams and a roll-top).
Weight for its size
From maker's figures 7/10How much it adds to your pack for the space it protects. 7: Better than most.
100 g for 19 L is 5.3 g/L, in the 4.0–5.9 g/L band (Exped UK's and exped.com's spec tables). Needle Sports lists 90 g (4.7 g/L): the same band either way.
In short
Good for
- Squeezing a sleeping bag or clothes down inside or onto the outside of a rucksack: three side straps and a flat valve
- Inflating an Exped mat: the valve works as a pump bag
- Colour-coding kit: three sizes (13, 19 and 36 L), each its own colour
- Not for river crossings or anything that may go under water
Strengths
- 100 g for 19 L (5.3 g/L)
- Recycled 70D nylon with a PU coating and a 7,000 mm water column
- Three crosswise compression straps and a flat valve to let the air out
- Roll-top with buckles; white inside coating makes contents easy to see
- Grab handle at the base
- 5-year warranty
Weaknesses
- Exped says it is not submersible
- Exped's pages disagree on seams (taped in the spec table, welded in the description), so we use taped
- No independent tests found, so durability and ease are estimates, not reviewed scores
- Shops list different weights (Needle Sports 90 g, Exped 100 g)
Sources
We haven't tested this ourselves. Every score comes from these specs, tests and reviews.