trigfunctions
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Hi - can anyone tell me if the DC1200 is positively or negatively bouant, and if so, how much? thanks
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My DC1200 with external strobe is extremely buoyant. I am looking into getting the weight for it I believe it is a 13oz weight to help make it more neutral.
:laughing: Honestly, when I see all of the common lost-cameras post on the Lost forum and in local forums, divers seeking help getting their memorable & valuable property back, usually newish divers who really should be learning more about safe diving and waiting until later on cameras, it's a challenge for me to not be rude - so I try to be helpful. I am often tempted to say "Did you not think? Of course it sinks when you drop it!"Just make sure you secure it to your BCD with retractors or a coil lanyard. I use two coil lanyards in case one fails. I would rather have it hang down then float up and tangle around by regulator if I had to let go of it for some reason. Sealife sells an accessory weight depending on how many attachments you have.
However DandyDon is a big fan of the float strap. I must have seen over 10 posts from him explaining the benefit. Maybe he gets a commission from Sealife for every one that is sold. I'm not sure with multiple strobes and the camera that the float strap would be be buoyant enough.
Truthfully, I have taken Sealife cameras without a strobe on many dives, after refusing to dive carry one for most of my first hundred dives, and even tho negative - never fumbled one. I didn't know about the float strap or I would have used one, especially snorkeling in murky waters off of Holbox - as one drop and it's hopeless there. I've carried a camera with a yellow strobe on trips the last few years, confident that it would float and hopeful to find it on the surface or retrieve it in a cave - but now I have a black camera and black strobe I am looking forward to trying my new, red float strap. Yeah, I keep it secured on my wrist until final approach to the boat, then carefully pass it up before passing my pony up. I rejected a retractor for it as I already have a lot attached to my BC: console on retractor, alternate second stage, the pony, a slate on a retractor even tho hidden in pocket, DAN tag, and Storm Whistle.DandyDon - Do you where the strap on your wrist? Do you just have the camera only?
Maybe he gets a commission from Sealife for every one that is sold.
I !@#$%^ give up.I've wondered the same about the gas analyzers he lists in his signature.