| We are giving you a little information here to lead | | | | for planning your dive profile. The electronic compass |
| you towards the right questions to ask to help you | | | | is also nice for when I am navigating at night in a |
| when buying a scuba diving computer, so that the | | | | strange town, and I don't speak the language like |
| computer fits your needs. We would recommend | | | | Saigon or Bangkok, so for me while the cost was |
| that you talk to your diving instructor about what | | | | high, I get lots of good use out of it. A neat added |
| kind of diving that you would like to do, and then | | | | benefit is that it marks you as a diver so you get to |
| they can help you by asking questions to see where | | | | meet other divers because of your dive watch. |
| your future in diving will take you, and what your | | | | If you are a weekend diver having your own |
| dive gear needs will be . | | | | computer is nice because you are familiar with it and |
| For myself I have 1000 dives and I don't do tech | | | | you know how to use it. Diving can be sometimes |
| wreck diving. I do travel a bit and I don't always take | | | | stressful and not knowing the computer intimately |
| all of my dive gear with me. I am also a PADI and | | | | can add additional stress to your dive, just like diving |
| SSI instructor, so on most dives, I have divers that I | | | | any other new equipment, except that computers |
| am leading or teaching courses to, so I like to have | | | | tend to take a bit more to learn on the front end. I |
| my dive gear setup quickly, to give me more time to | | | | myself got into some trouble when my computer |
| supervise my divers. When I had a strap on | | | | batteries ran out and I needed to rent a computer, |
| computer, I was forever forgetting the darn thing, | | | | and didn't understand all the messages that the |
| because I was so use to my Oceanic computer that | | | | computer gave me, resulting in me going into |
| was on my gauge package. I never forgot my | | | | decompression diving and not knowing it! Needless to |
| computer but it was not a good setup if I wanted to | | | | say going into deco and not knowing it could have |
| travel light, with just my mask and computer. When I | | | | been very dangerous. |
| became an instructor, I decided to upgrade again to | | | | I recommend to most weekend divers that they |
| a Suunto Stinger. The deal is this, as you go along; if | | | | look at the Suunto Gecko with its large easy to read |
| you are seriously in to diving, you will upgrade your | | | | face or if you like a watch look at the Suunto |
| dive gear just like I have, so don't feel pressured to | | | | Mosquito another one with a bit more aesthetic |
| buy the latest and greatest right from the start. If | | | | appeal would be the Mares Nemo. All 3 of these are |
| you take care of your scuba equipment it usually will | | | | god value for the money and they hold up well |
| retain allot of resale or trade value. | | | | If you do a lot of diving and you are thinking of |
| Most times if you rent scuba gear they don't have | | | | going down the advanced tech wreck diving side |
| compasses so I upgraded again when the Suunto D9 | | | | talking to a tech wreck instructor will have you ask |
| came out, which added a compass and air integration. | | | | questions like will I be doing multi gas? Am I an |
| I also like it because like the Stinger, I don't have to | | | | aggressive diver? Am I fit? If you are just starting |
| bring my "regs" out to give dive log details, when it | | | | down that path you might look at a Suunto Viper or |
| comes time to fill in the logs. Even better the D9 has | | | | some of the Uawtec line which allow some deco |
| a USB interface and I just click a button and it tells | | | | diving. Some computers will violate you and turn into |
| me all sorts of cool stuff, like how much air per min I | | | | gauges, not good as it could end your computers use |
| am breathing, which if you get into cave diving or | | | | for 24-48-72 hours. Your best bet is to talk to the |
| cavern diving, or just want to plan some deep dives, | | | | tech wreck people before buying dive computers for |
| gives you a good idea of how much air you are using | | | | the more advanced diving. |