If you're dead, you won't care if it doesn't work...
My family knows that when I die, I want to be cremated and have my ashes dumped on a nice reef. If I die diving, we can just skip the cremation part...
Mandatory tracking device for divers?
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If you're dead, you won't care if it doesn't work...
My family knows that when I die, I want to be cremated and have my ashes dumped on a nice reef. If I die diving, we can just skip the cremation part...
If it pops to the surface within a very short time it tells you little more than you knew. Body is in ocean. Device will be a long ways off pretty quickly.
Hatul
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This is probably in reaction to the loss of Lynne. Yes I was thinking of the same thing, something like the pinger that planes use. It could be made part of the Nautilus lifeline and emit an underwater ultrasonic ping.
kwinter
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Avalanche transceivers have existed for decades and are used by hikers and skiers in back country avalanche areas. They were known as Pieps for years because I think that was the company that pioneered them. Everyone wore one in transmit mode. If an avalanche occurred, the others would switch theirs into receive mode and start the search. They are very effective on land and the signal would transmit through several feet of snow. I'm not sure whether something could be developed for underwater use, but I don't see why not. One difference is that back country skiers and climbers have a reasonable expectation of avalanche, and so want to be prepared. Divers who carry PLBs do so because of the accepted risk of being separated on the surface. I don't think many people give thought to being recovered after drowning. A quick rescue of an avalanche victim has a good likelihood of being a rescue rather than a recovery. Not so much for someone lost underwater. But I would welcome the product development and probably carry one. Combining that feature with those of a PLB would be a real winner.
I'm not keen on the idea of mandatory. More focus on proper training and safe diving habits would be my preference.
DivemasterDennis
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Mandatory? Seems obvious by now this is a no. If it was available would I even wear one? Unlikely. Like Dirty-Dog, burial at sea is acceptable to me and anyone in my life that would care knows this too.
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Have you ever pulled the cord on a co2 inflator on the old BC's at depth (greater than 25ft or so)?
Basking Ridge Diver
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I have a Lifeline, and would not want to add this feature. It would ping the entire time the device was underwater? Currently the battery lasts a LONG time (you do need to check it before heading out and charge it often just in case..BUT it does last a long time). Making it ping would probably mean more dead Lifelines when someone surfaced far away from the boat than divers located alive underwater.
eelnoraa
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Radio frequency works well in air or vacumn, but not at all in water. The travel range is very short. So the beacon type of device for boater or sky diver doesn't work for diver unless the diver is already on the surface. A simple experiment is to put a gopro with housing (of course) into your bath tube and try to access it with wifi. It won't work if the gopro is barely submerge. It is not simple to have a device that work both underwater and above water and keep it small so that a diver can keep it in pockets
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