Peregrine and Owner reunited...

[Belzelbub]

...after the Peregrine spent a year underwater.

Saw this posted by SW yesterday. I do wish they would have shared the dive profile up until the battery ran out.

Resilience Tested: Lost Peregrine Survives a Year in the Ocean

In the winter of 2022, my Peregrine was ripped off my wrist while returning to a dive boat during rough seas off the coast of Jupiter, Florida. My beloved Peregrine computer sank down to the bottom of the sea. One year later, that same Peregrine dive computer made it back into my hands and it...

shearwater.com

 

[BoltSnap]

...after the Peregrine spent a year underwater.

Saw this posted by SW yesterday. I do wish they would have shared the dive profile up until the battery ran out.

Resilience Tested: Lost Peregrine Survives a Year in the Ocean

In the winter of 2022, my Peregrine was ripped off my wrist while returning to a dive boat during rough seas off the coast of Jupiter, Florida. My beloved Peregrine computer sank down to the bottom of the sea. One year later, that same Peregrine dive computer made it back into my hands and it...

shearwater.com

How terrible!!! Cheap components. One would think that for a dive computer that's overpriced they would use better quality straps but no they don't.

 

[lexvil]

Either the strap breaks or your wrist does…

 

[Belzelbub]

How terrible!!! Cheap components. One would think that for a dive computer that's overpriced they would use better quality straps but no they don't.

That's one way to look at it. Per the story, it was in rough seas when returning to the boat. I'm betting it got caught on something. Pretty sure that would test most straps. I know you are just poking at SW. The Peregrine is not all that expensive compared to other full color computers. The ones I saw that were cheaper look even cheaper, and I bet the same would happen.

I wonder, though, if the other companies would have gone through the effort of trying to get it back to the owner.

One other thing. The Peregrine also comes with shock cord to use as a strap. That may have fared better as you could have two independent straps.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

That's one way to look at it. Per the story, it was in rough seas when returning to the boat. I'm betting it got caught on something. Pretty sure that would test most straps. I know you are just poking at SW. The Peregrine is not all that expensive compared to other full color computers. The ones I saw that were cheaper look even cheaper, and I bet the same would happen.

My guess is that when she finally got on the ladder, one of the rungs slide between her wrist and the strap. If the strap was not tight enough and if she hit the ladder just right in rough seas, that can easily happen. It could have happened to a Garmin or ScubaPro just as easily. I've seen the straps on those computers, and they are not any higher quality than Shearwaters Peregrine straps.

 

[Eric802]

...after the Peregrine spent a year underwater.

Saw this posted by SW yesterday. I do wish they would have shared the dive profile up until the battery ran out.

Wonder how much deco had accumulated at that point!