Bought a Peregrine

[Kimela]

When you load the dives into the app, does it remove them from the Peregrine?

Sorry for the confusion. No. They stay there and are copied to the log. When I got my Peregrine I had 396 dives and wanted the first one on the Peregrine to be #397. It took me a while to figure out how to do that ... I had to finally break down and look at the manual.

 

[scubadada]

End Dive Time

I dive with 2 computers, a 13 year old Oceanic VT3 and a Shearwater Teric. The VT3 has a default end dive time of 10 minutes, that I have been grateful for on several occasions. I have set my Teric at 10 minutes also.

Just last week, I was doing a solo drift dive in Boynton Beach Florida. I started the dive on the outside reef and the current was ripping. Part way into the dive I decided to go west over the reef to the inside. The current had different ideas and pulled me east off the reef and over sand. As there was no way to recover, I surfaced and was picked up by the boat and redropped on the inside. The dive was counted as one by both computers as the redrop took less than 10 minutes.

Here is the profile from the Teric, I was on the surface about 4 minutes, I dive with a good boat.

 

[rhwestfall]

The failure to turn on, and the early end of the dive... I wonder if the pressure sensor is "wonky", can you compare depths to those whom you dove with?

 

[Wayward Son]

Yes, they match. It may be that it has to hit 3 feet deep to turn on & I didn't try that yet

 

[rhwestfall]

I've never noticed as we turn them on/verify on as part of the last check before splashing....

 

[Wayward Son]

Curious. I just looked at the Peregrine & for that dive (it was showing 44:xx after the stop & later when I checked after the dives were done for the day) it now shows 51 minutes.

So it seems that it did keep up with it, just didn't display for some unknown time after.

 

[Wayward Son]

In this case, the splash (after having turned it on to check it) involved a 100 yard walk up a street, then another 100 yards or more across a soft, sandy beach to finally wade into the sea & eventually make it out deep enough to let the water take the weight of the rig.

In short, it took a minute or 2 to get there.

At which point I looked & while wet, it was turned off.

 

[JoeTPhilly]

The more I read this thread I think it is operator error. I would recommend reading the manual.

 

[Wayward Son]

yes, it could be the loose nut on the computer

 

[Kimela]

In this case, the splash (after having turned it on to check it) involved a 100 yard walk up a street, then another 100 yards or more across a soft, sandy beach to finally wade into the sea & eventually make it out deep enough to let the water take the weight of the rig.

In short, it took a minute or 2 to get there.

At which point I looked & while wet, it was turned off.

I wonder if you, like me, shoot the breeze and don't realize that instead of a minute or 2 it's just enough time for the thing to timeout and turn itself off - and then it's not going to come back on until it's submerged 3 feet?

Definitely need more field testing!