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New Pelagos FXD GMT | TUDOR Watch
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I'm not really a micro brands guy, but that watch is giving off some seriously good Rolex Explorer 2 vibes (minus the GMT complication).
I find it interesting how dive watches transformed from -- once -- a vital tool, to become simply a poncey fashion statement or even a novelty, when the reverse was also true, of early dive computers.
Of the handful of people that I knew, who eventually became bent (some more than once), all save for one did so with that first generation of computers, which I had always thought, provided a false sense of security, by pushing the envelope, occasionally beyond that of tables, along with a hefty price. The only person who got hit with DCS on a watch, at the time, was truly the king of bounce dives; and also a walking heart attack.
I carry in my truck everything required for diving at the last minute, save for a tank, which is simple enough to obtain; and the only battery involved in that particular set of analogue gear, is a SR920 button in an old dive watch, which gets swapped out every three years or so.
I have a ridiculous amount of electronics dedicated to diving, but am just as comfortable, if not more, hitting the water with a watch and tables if conditions warrant it. I had been doing that for more than a decade before computers and have lived to tell the tale; so too, most of my older friends, who can still use a compass, read a physical map, and drive stick.
Years ago, while working overseas, a client gave us all some nice 1000 meter beater watches, then distributed by either Poseidon or Scubapro, as a thank you; and I still have mine — the one with the blue face the others didn’t quite like — to this day . . .
Of the handful of people that I knew, who eventually became bent (some more than once), all save for one did so with that first generation of computers, which I had always thought, provided a false sense of security, by pushing the envelope, occasionally beyond that of tables, along with a hefty price. The only person who got hit with DCS on a watch, at the time, was truly the king of bounce dives; and also a walking heart attack.
I carry in my truck everything required for diving at the last minute, save for a tank, which is simple enough to obtain; and the only battery involved in that particular set of analogue gear, is a SR920 button in an old dive watch, which gets swapped out every three years or so.
I have a ridiculous amount of electronics dedicated to diving, but am just as comfortable, if not more, hitting the water with a watch and tables if conditions warrant it. I had been doing that for more than a decade before computers and have lived to tell the tale; so too, most of my older friends, who can still use a compass, read a physical map, and drive stick.
Years ago, while working overseas, a client gave us all some nice 1000 meter beater watches, then distributed by either Poseidon or Scubapro, as a thank you; and I still have mine — the one with the blue face the others didn’t quite like — to this day . . .
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I remember my first dive computer, I still have it, and it works.
It's only in last 5 or so years I have stopped using a watch when diving , still carry one in any dive bag I use.
Edit: Usual fat finger typos.
First computer, it was a guide only.
First computer:
It's only in last 5 or so years I have stopped using a watch when diving , still carry one in any dive bag I use.
Edit: Usual fat finger typos.
First computer, it was a guide only.
First computer:
Heh, heh, heh — a month’s rent back then, circa 1986 . . .
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When I say my first dive computer, it was the first I bought myself , played around with some weird early computers before I took the plunge [yeah, pun].
Remember the "Bend-O-Matic"?
Remember the "Bend-O-Matic"?
We actually took out one of the "functional" Scubapro-branded models of the "Bend-O-Matic," in the late 1990s; and, oddly enough, its results were not that far off -- and slightly more conservative than the original Suunto Solution, at 30 meters (we had one on hand), which allowed for something like 17 minutes, NDL, on a first dive; the Bend-O, somewhat less.When I say my first dive computer, it was the first I bought myself , played around with some weird early computers before I took the plunge [yeah, pun].
Remember the "Bend-O-Matic"?
We were pleasantly surprised . . .
Sadly, I don't recall its lineage; but I found something online -- famous last words . . .
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