[Leica] Dive "timers" and Direction finders, and TIMEX watches!!

[rclompus@cox.net]

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." 
> 
>  
> 
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