PLBs Can Save Your Life

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MrBigfins:
Well I bit the bullet and purchased the acr 400 and the nautilus lifeline. Now to finalize a canister for the plb, any word on the attempted group buy from light Monkey?
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I will be sending out another email shortly to everyone who expressed interest in the Light Monkey group buy, but after talking to the local dealer and Light Monkey, there isn’t any room in the pricing to for additional discounts and we’re under the threshold to get the $200 cost for 25 units that someone posted about earlier. Cost will be $250 and they can either supply a stock canister or if someone can send a PLB to them then they will size it for that unit.
 
MrBigfins:
Personally I dont plan on spending $300 and then depending on a cheap fix to attempt to keep my LIFE SAVING equipment in working order. What happens when I think the cheap solution works and it does until the dive that i actually need to use a plb? Say I'm pushed deeper by a downwelling, and seperated from the group and boat. The extra depth breaks the plb and I am stranded?
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That makes sense ! I think the reason people do this is that they cannot find thin canisters ?
 
New PLB1 specifications
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Side note if you order the nautilus lifeline, it does NOT come with the cr123 batteries needed. Would have been nice if that was listed somewhere in the sale and. Grrrrr
 
I'm sure someone may have commented on this question before but I can't find it. When traveling by air with your PLB TSA's page says check with airline, airlines page doesn't say anything, people on phone don't have a clue so do you guys just say it's a gps and roll on?
 
ScubaJCBS:
I'm sure someone may have commented on this question before but I can't find it. When traveling by air with your PLB TSA's page says check with airline, airlines page doesn't say anything, people on phone don't have a clue so do you guys just say it's a gps and roll on?
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I put mine in checked baggage so I have never encountered such question. However if I put it in my carryon bag & TSA look at it, it’s labeled PLB and you can tell them it’s a Personal Locator Beacon. If they still want to know what it is for, I think telling them it is a GPS is good enough.
 
Dan_T:
I put mine in checked baggage so I have never encountered such question. However if I put it in my carryon bag & TSA look at it, it’s labeled PLB and you can tell them it’s a Personal Locator Beacon. If they still want to know what it is for I think GPS is good enough.
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Don't try going into Cuba with a "GPS."
 
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