How often do you check remaining gas supplies? You vs. regular buddy vs. insta-buddy

[Jax]

My routine is similar to Jax

*may do another check before #3 if anyone touches my valve.



I don't look at anyone else's. Now for the people that check their buddy's gas what would you do if the head's up display masks become popular? I know I could set my mask to check on my husband's transponder, but I don't do it.

Disclaimer - not all these work the same with pairing security . . .

Most computers generate a pairing number that uniquely identifies each transmission to each transponder. It would be rare for two people on the same boat to have the same pairing even if all had three gases.

 

[drbill]

I pretty much know my air consumption on most of the standard profiles I dive, but do check my SPG occasionally to verify. In almost 50 years of diving I've only run really low on three occasions. One was in the early 70s when the crew put an empty tank on the filled rack and I couldn't check it because the topside SPG (we didn't have them on our regs back then) was missing. Discovered it at 90 ft. The other two were intentional drawdowns as I was filming rare subjects in shallow water.