Console vs Wrist

[diverrex]

Lots of different views and issues with each for the OP to consider. I can't say one is better than the other but depends on your diving and personal preferences. I use both.

 

[divad]

Okay, let's say that you're hunting for bugs and a nice 5-pounder just retreated into a crevice that you can stick your hand in to grab, except that your wrist is full of instruments...what do you do?

Why would my wrist be full of instruments?

 

[phoenix31tt]

Okay, let's say that you're hunting for bugs and a nice 5-pounder just retreated into a crevice that you can stick your hand in to grab, except that your wrist is full of instruments...what do you do?

use the other hand

 

[fnfalman]

Why would my wrist be full of instruments?

Some prefer to carry backups.

Nonetheless, your wrist/forearm has one or two instruments, how are you going to fit that arm underneath the rock to grab for the lobster? Are you going to take time to dismount your instrument(s), secure it (them) and then go back to the bug? I suppose you can do that.

Or you can just use a console that's out of the way.

---------- Post added November 27th, 2012 at 09:02 AM ----------

use the other hand

What if the other arm also has instrument mounted? Some people prefer to mount compass or computer on one arm/wrist and the other device on the opposite arm/wrist.

 

[divad]

Ok, let's say that I don't like lobster and even if I did I wouldn't like the idea of"fitting" my arm under a rock to get one. I guess you could move the gauge up near your elbow, or clip off the compass, or put both gauges on the same arm. Yes, that's it; put both gauges on one arm.

 

[live_2_dive]

What if the other arm also has instrument mounted? Some people prefer to mount compass or computer on one arm/wrist and the other device on the opposite arm/wrist.

That's what a tickle stick and net are for




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[divad]

That sounds lewd.

 

[fnfalman]

That's what a tickle stick and net are for




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Not every state allows for tools in the harvesting of bugs.

---------- Post added November 28th, 2012 at 02:43 PM ----------

Ok, let's say that I don't like lobster and even if I did I wouldn't like the idea of"fitting" my arm under a rock to get one.

Then my rebuttal to your question on deploying SMB is that I don't use SMB because I make sure that I do dives that don't require deployment of SMB.

I guess you could move the gauge up near your elbow, or clip off the compass, or put both gauges on the same arm. Yes, that's it; put both gauges on one arm.

Sounds like a lot of extra work underwate where a console unit will do just fine with simplicity of elegance.

 

[phoenix31tt]

Sounds like a lot of extra work underwate where a console unit will do just fine with simplicity of elegance.

you create some weird out of the way scenario just to say that a console would fit nice in it...

to find a diver that has BOTH his hands filled with redundant gauges AND lobster hunting AND finding a huge lobster AND the lobster going into a deep hole AND him going after it...

come on

i dont think anybody is arguing whether it doesn't have scenarios where a console wont work... we're just saying which we prefer and why

 

[Tom Winters]

Gauges on consoles take a beating. When I had rental fear out, my blood used to run cold watching people drag the stuff over the bottom even though I had clips on all my rental bc's. Then in a boat, that console is hanging down taking some more abuse. You have your 'puter on your wrist, it's going to look better a lot longer. After seeing hands that didn't come out of holes looking so hot after they got mangled usually by an eel, no way my hand goes where the sun don't shine.