PLBs Can Save Your Life

[Dan]

A better case design is using latch & hinge like in most camera cases & Nautilus MRG. However to protect from accidental unlatching situation while diving due to say entanglement, you need to secure the latch. Nautilus MRG provide a rubber jacket over the latch to prevent such accident.

A better design case with latch & hinge cap.

After unlatch it, the cover just hinges out of the way but it still attaches onto the MRG.

To protect the latch from accidentally unlatched, you put a rubber jacket over the latch handle (see the red arrow, below).

I wish Nautilus made PLB like the MRG with 400’ waterproof depth rating.

 

[DandyDon]

ACR Summer Rebates - June 15 to July 15

 

[tridacna]

Anyone interested in a OLD Style Nautilus Lifeline (with VHF and GPS)?

Let me know. I have two brand new unopened.

 

[Dan]

Received the Viton gasket today & installed it for 2nd seal, as shown below.
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Also I just realized that the canister was not tethered to the lid. So I asked the shop to glue a pad with a hole to the bottom of the canister for tethering the canister with the rest of my gadgets.
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Hopefully the weather will be good enough for testing them in Flower Garden Banks on Saturday.

Trip was cancelled due to bad weather last weekend. It’s rescheduled to July 20.

 

[DandyDon]

My anti-virus is again (or still) giving warnings at the ACR site. I reported it again and got this assurance that it's not harmful...

This issue has been reported to our team and they are working on it. In the meantime, you can rest assured that this is not related to a virus, but a complex code embedded into the website which some anti-viruses don’t understand and judge it as they will. It takes time until the new code is written and replaced.

 

[blake7]

ACR Summer Rebates - June 15 to July 15

Thanks for posting the rebate info, it got me off the fence and I bought an Ocean Signal PLB1 with a Custom Divers canister. The canister cost was £65 + £18 shipping to the US + £1.58 for the extra o-rings and arrived in 4 days. I am super happy with the canister and it fits the PLB1 in its float case perfectly.

Since I couldn't find any pictures of a PLB1 + float case inside the Custom Divers canister, here is mine:

I am also including a picture of how I carry it with my Nautilus LifeLine Radio inside a XS Scuba Mesh Carry Pouch which I quick link to the bottom of my backplate. I add the liveaboard's Marine Rescue GPS or other AIS MOB device they might issue to their passengers to the pouch if necessary.

 

[tursiops]

Nice. What is the white band on the top of your canister?

 

[blake7]

Nice. What is the white band on the top of your canister?

Doubled up cave line with a loop at the end. I use my free double-ender to clip it to my right shoulder d-ring. The line is arms length so that I don't have to unclip when handling the canister.

 

[tursiops]

Doubled up cave line with a loop at the end. I use my free double-ender to clip it to my right shoulder d-ring. The line is arms length so that I don't have to unclip when handling the canister.

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Thanks. Good idea.

 

[Dan]

Having both the canister & cap tethered to you is also important. If you open the canister while floating on the surface, wave hit you and you lose grip of the canister, you don’t have to swim and search for it, just pull the line back to you.

For me the canister would be more useful to be tethered to my BCD than the cap, as a canister is a big enough cup for collecting rainwater.