April TDI Adv. Nitrox w/Deco

[moose_hk]

yes we can do 1 dive to mapating during the dor iv. can you navigate the bangka to the site?

Thats what GPS is for

 

[Spoon]

Thats what GPS is for

ive seen some bangkeros navigate to it by land reference alone, anyway i guess its set, mapating it is

 

[moose_hk]

ive seen some bangkeros navigate to it by land reference alone, anyway i guess its set, mapating it is

The fixes are simple - but GPS is fail safe

 

[iris_ice]

Thats what GPS is for

uhmmm... where did you buy yours? (iris hoping you bought it locally...)

 

[shugar]

uhmmm... where did you buy yours? (iris hoping you bought it locally...)

gps can be found locally... hans manila i think has... as well as some gadget shops... sorry can't remember any off the top of my head but i could have sworn i've seen some around

ask din eric_p... they also diddle with GPS and even have some frankenstein rig where it's connected to a PC motherboard for instant mapping or somehting

Jag

 

[Halthron]

I love my GPS. Just wish Geocaching was catching on here. I still need to place a scuba cache...

 

[Twomixdiver]

The fixes are simple - but GPS is fail safe

Yes, but it never fails to amaze me how fishermen, functionally illiterate at that, can use dead reckoning to an uncanny degree of accuracy.

I remember how, in 2001, a bangkero got us exactly on top a 50 meter deep wreck with only TWO (2) points of land references to go by. And those land references were at least 25 to 30 KILOMETERS AWAY...:huh:

 

[moose_hk]

Yes, but it never fails to amaze me how fishermen, functionally illiterate at that, can use dead reckoning to an uncanny degree of accuracy.

I remember how, in 2001, a bangkero got us exactly on top a 50 meter deep wreck with only TWO (2) points of land references to go by. And those land references were at least 25 to 30 KILOMETERS AWAY...:huh:

If you want to find a new wreck just ask a fisherman - I know when my mates were looking for princess of the orient (with a relatively small search area) they found a fisherman who could put them right on it (saving the hassle of doing search grids). Is nice to use technology to check (depth sounder) that you're not doing a dive on HMS sandy bottom though