Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This kind of reminds me of my own expereience. I used to dive with a Rolex gold and stainless steel submariner. Once while waiting on the boat to "outgas" for the second of a two tank dive off Maui, one of the pins broke. The watch fell off my wrist, bounced on the aluminum threshold of the boat and bounced into the boat - instead of out into the sea. It scared the stuffing out of me. I had the pin replaced and have since dived with a $175 Seal Luminox watch. But like ther post said, I'd rather dive with two dive computers and forget the watch altogether. Dive watches tell others you're a diver but I wouldn't bet my life on one in an emergency. Like cameras, redundancy is the best policy with dive computers. Richard Richard Clompus, OD Roanoke, VA > From: "caliguri@rcn.com" <caliguri@rcn.com> > Date: 2003/07/21 Mon PM 06:44:45 EDT > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Dive "timers" and Direction finders, and TIMEX watches!! > > Hi! > Honestly - this guy is right! Dive computers have replaced dive watches > a while ago - since your life depends on how much air you have left (or > for some "new Photographer-Dive rich folk - Rebreather Capacity :-) no > bubbles! ) A multi function computer attached to your tank is the way to > go for me -- time, direction, depth, tank pressure etc is the best. The > Seamaster is great - but as a land watch - I use a Timex ! :-) - keeps > time very well, is cheap, indiglo night light, and when I'm working in the > laboratory. If someone spills a plastic-corrosive solvent on it, I can > replace it for 30 bucks! ;-) Wasn't it Johm Cameron Swazey (?) whom I > recall as a kid strpping a Timex watch to a boat prop and other crazy > things to show that it will "take a lickin' and keep on tickin' !" I could > be > wrong there; I was a little kid , but I recall those demos on TV - shows > the power of the medium I guess! > Ed > > On one such visit, I noticed that the owner was wearing one of my > favorite > watches, an Omega Seamaster Chronometer (their most water > resistant, good > to 300M/1000ft). I commented on the watch and he said that it was also > one > of his favorites. I asked if he was a SCUBA diver and, when he said that > he was, whether he wore the watch diving. > > "Oh no," was his reply, "you cannot wear a watch like this diving. It is > far too expensive. For diving I wear a Casio digital." > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/ unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html