mikerault
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The longer the range the more expensive and the faster the battery drain. I was anticipating maybe a hundred yards (for the emergency pinger) and 50 for normal operations.
Mike
Mike
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Me too. LINKMikeM_scuba:I would pay $500 to know that my buddy will be there for me if I need him.
This is why in cave courses students are taught to follow the line out in touch contact should the visibility be silted out, and to "spell" hand signals into each other's palms or use "shoves & tugs" via touch contact to communicate.mikerault:..."even when striving to maintain contact with a buddy in low visibility conditions it can be quite easy to lose them. I know because it has happened to me several times even when both buddies were doing everything they could (short of holding hands) to stay together...In water with less than 5 foot of visibility it can be easy to get 10 foot away and then you might as well be 100 yards away"
I understand what you mean, I think, it's just that we come at it from two different directions. IMHO, the divers should slow things down and work with each other so that they stay together regardless of how slow that makes them, rather than losing one another.mikerault:"I don't mean for this to replace skills only to make diving safer for those who can't practice every weekend."