Bottom Timer

[Teller]

Does anyone know where I can pick up a UWATEC or OMS bottom timer. I think they are the same bottom timer but I can find one anywhere. I have even been trying to find a used one. Any ideas?

 

[Akimbo]

You can get a new air-only wrist computer like the Oceanic Veo for $150 and ignore everything but time, depth, and temperature. That is less the bottom timers were new.

 

[Rainer]

Biggest problem with this suggestion is you can easily bend the computer (but not bottom timer) and have it lock you out from further diving.

I constantly see used Uwatec BTs for sale here and on TheDecoStop (usually around $100).

You can get a new air-only wrist computer like the Oceanic Veo for $150 and ignore everything but time, depth, and temperature. That is less the bottom timers were new.

 

[Akimbo]

I have not tested it but my understanding from the Veo manual is a violation will turn it into a bottom timer:

Page 34:
Violation Gauge Mode turns the Veo 100 into a digital instrument without any decompression functions. Only Current Depth, Max Depth, Elapsed Dive Time, and the Variable Ascent Rate Indicator will be displayed (Fig. 33). The full Tissue Loading Bar Graph will flash as a warning of this condition. Temperature and Time of Day can be viewed as an Alternate Display when the button is pressed.

Those bottom timers are getting hard to find. I wish all computers had a setup mode to turn the decompression functions off.

 

[ndemeis]

Ebay. There is a used UWATEC there now for $55.

 

[buddhasummer]

Scubastore.com has them.