Does anyone carry back up SPG / computer or any other gear?

[randpchi]

My wife and I have both upgraded our computers and carry our first ones (oceanic Veo 100) as back up.

 

[Dan]

Mask fully on and regulator in place until you get to the boat is basic safety. I've been diving for 50 years and have never lost a mask. Recently I've been cleaning out a lot of junk so I can move. I found masks so old they were museum pieces. They brought back memories, but you have to be ruthless.

Is that the oval-shaped mask, which you can't pinch your nose to equalize your ears?

 

[agilis]

Is that the oval-shaped mask, which you can't pinch your nose to equalize your ears?

No, the oldest were big three- window masks from the early 70s. The even older ovals had indents for nose squeezing. All black rubber and stainless steel. I found other antiques, but the only things I kept were a pair of very old Voit fins in wonderful condition and a small mask that belonged to a long gone ex-girlfriend with traces of white powder sand in it from a long ago beach.

 

[savsuds]

I love AI, but I always carry a SPG for when the transmitter fails during a dive.

 

[scubadada]

I love AI, but I always carry a SPG for when the transmitter fails during a dive.

In 6 years/750 dives, the transmitter for my Oceanic VT3 has been unlinked for 30 seconds or less maybe 10-15 times. I'm generally unaware of these episodes, they are all recorded in the downloaded dive profile. I have a SPG, have never needed it

 

[dirtfarmer]

I take a back up camera. If I've spent lots of $ to go halfway round the world, I don't want to be without my camera. I have a presciption mask and should carry a backup, but it certainly never sits on the top of my head. On my face or around my neck.

 

[Altamira]

I always carry a backup set of gauges and compass. I do not want to have to thumb the dive if my computer fails prior to or during a dive, and it is nice to be able to compare air readings.

 

[Dan]

I take a back up camera. If I've spent lots of $ to go halfway round the world, I don't want to be without my camera. I have a presciption mask and should carry a backup, but it certainly never sits on the top of my head. On my face or around my neck.

I forgot about that one. Me too, carrying my backup camera. Going to GBR in November, Galapagos in December & plan to charter a liveaboard for 13-day crossing from Ambon to Sorong through Banda sea & Raja Ampat, Indonesia in November, 2017. I sure don't want to have my old camera (and dive computer & mask) caput in the middle of nowhere.

 

[dirtfarmer]

plan to charter a liveaboard for 13-day crossing from Ambon to Sorong through Banda sea & Raja Ampat, Indonesia in November, 2017. I sure don't want to have my old camera (and dive computer & mask) caput in the middle of nowhere.

I did the Ambon to Sorong trip last November, it was epic.

 

[Dan]

Cool! Thanks for the feedback, dirfarmer! A dive master of Mermaid liveaboard, when I took it from Bali to Komodo roundtrip cruise back in August 2014, said that November is the right time to go for Ambon-Sorong crossing trip.