It’s all about perspective IMHO. Saying that just because one may never need it in life or need it just once if ever does not mean there should be no striving for product design improvement. A survivor that loses it will need to buy a replacement cap after the rescue - maybe cheap for US continental residents, more like $15 shipping international for a $5 part that shouldn’t be lost so easily in the first place, add a few weeks for replacement. What if the rescue happened within a couple of hours (only a non-emergency position information report was needed), and the experience wasn’t so traumatic and the diver wants to continue his dive vacation (that cost him $$$$) with the safety of the lifesaving LL and feels extremely anxious hitting the water without it? The inconvenience of replacement is frankly quite disproportionate due to the lack of a suitable retainer mechanism. Diving with prolonged anxiety due to recent near-miss then on a subsequent dive, a mishap like an equipment malfunction is further aggravating the stress…
Suggestion#1 is an even more critical feature to fix IMHO -
For that one instance in life what if a boat is maintaining a course that is a tangential path to the circle (say 9km radius) where it could intercept the SOS Signal as seen below?
(Q: Is the circle an oblong in the real world?)
What if it’s the only boat you had a chance with and it crossed this line in the first few hours in a 15 min window when your arms were too tired to hold it up 6ft above the water line? And then you die a slow agonising death over the next 48 hrs … Not just Malpelo but most of APAC I would add… (The Malpelo thread on SB read like a racy novel BTW, sadly it was a true life story of a tragedy).
Suggestion#1 is an even more critical feature to fix IMHO -
For that one instance in life what if a boat is maintaining a course that is a tangential path to the circle (say 9km radius) where it could intercept the SOS Signal as seen below?
(Q: Is the circle an oblong in the real world?)
What if it’s the only boat you had a chance with and it crossed this line in the first few hours in a 15 min window when your arms were too tired to hold it up 6ft above the water line? And then you die a slow agonising death over the next 48 hrs … Not just Malpelo but most of APAC I would add… (The Malpelo thread on SB read like a racy novel BTW, sadly it was a true life story of a tragedy).
