RoadWarrior
Contributor
Below is text from a DiverNet review of the Oceanic Versa Pro - So far as I know the only difference between the Versa and the VT Pro is the VT is hoseless. I was just about to buy the VT Pro, knowning it's less conservative, but reading this review concerns me. I don't plan to ever go below 130 feet but I do want to be at that depth at least once in my life. So far 109' is my deepest dive. I know there are arguments for being very conservative and arguments for not being so anal. Reading this review makes it appear the Oceanic is way off base, perhaps wrong, when diving deep. I'm less interested in opinions but very interested if anyone knows something specific.
"Decompression-stop dives are the type of dives I commonly do, and I took the Versa Pro on a series of 12 such dives (many repetitive) alongside a Cressi Archimede and a Suunto Vytec.
Only once did the Oceanic momentarily show me entering deco-mode, though the other two had me into deco-mode on nearly every dive.
Not only that, but the discrepancy between the amount of no-stop time remaining on the Oceanic Versa and the deco-stops demanded by the other two was alarming.
However, I can state that there were times on dives when the Suunto and Cressi were showing the first stop at 3m while the Oceanic Versa Pro showed 45 minutes of no-stop time remaining.
On one particular 38m dive, the Suunto showed eight minutes and the Cressi five minutes of total ascent time needed, while the Versa Pro still showed 15 minutes of no-stop time remaining."
Read the whole review here: http://www.divernet.com/equipment/0602divertests.htm#versa
"Decompression-stop dives are the type of dives I commonly do, and I took the Versa Pro on a series of 12 such dives (many repetitive) alongside a Cressi Archimede and a Suunto Vytec.
Only once did the Oceanic momentarily show me entering deco-mode, though the other two had me into deco-mode on nearly every dive.
Not only that, but the discrepancy between the amount of no-stop time remaining on the Oceanic Versa and the deco-stops demanded by the other two was alarming.
However, I can state that there were times on dives when the Suunto and Cressi were showing the first stop at 3m while the Oceanic Versa Pro showed 45 minutes of no-stop time remaining.
On one particular 38m dive, the Suunto showed eight minutes and the Cressi five minutes of total ascent time needed, while the Versa Pro still showed 15 minutes of no-stop time remaining."
Read the whole review here: http://www.divernet.com/equipment/0602divertests.htm#versa