SPG3K
Contributor
I have three dives on my VT3. During one I lost sync while swimming through a sunken school bus, because my hand was outside the body and MY body was inside. Brought it back to my chest and it linked right back up.
My friend uses the multiple tank system, and I don't understand how you could possibly get confused as to which tank you are looking at, at least on my(our) models.
Tank 1 is obviously yours. Tanks 2/3 are whatever you set them to. Redundant (self) or BPC (Buddy Pressure Check).
If you look at the computer and it's showing you the little picture for TANK 2, you are obviously NOT looking at your pressure. Not to mention if these people with the so-called confusion were looking at a reading off Tank 2, their buddy was either REALLY close to them, or their tank actually has the Tank 2 TMT.
My buddies loses connection to my Transmitter at about 6 feet. We are not often that close to each other.
But I can slide his computer off his retractor, hit a button, and the icon switches from TANK 1 to TANK 2 and I compare it to my reading.
If he looks at it later and sees TANK 2 (which is obvious) he switches it back to TANK 1.
It's really not complicated at all (on Oceanic's, at least) and I'm not understanding how "multiple readings" can be so confusing. I don't know of a computer that shows more than one reading at a time. All that I've seen you have to select a source, and the source is clearly identified.
If you forget which source is the cylinder you are currently attached to, that's a user error, not a failure of the device to communicate or clearly display pertinent information.
Also, if the device dies on you in the middle of the dive, you obviously didn't have it serviced properly (change battery) or didn't pay attention to the indicators of low battery life.
Of course there are more failure points with Hoseless AI. But I'll trade that any day for the convenience of diving in the same position for the entire duration. No retractors or clips or annoying hoses.
My friend uses the multiple tank system, and I don't understand how you could possibly get confused as to which tank you are looking at, at least on my(our) models.
Tank 1 is obviously yours. Tanks 2/3 are whatever you set them to. Redundant (self) or BPC (Buddy Pressure Check).
If you look at the computer and it's showing you the little picture for TANK 2, you are obviously NOT looking at your pressure. Not to mention if these people with the so-called confusion were looking at a reading off Tank 2, their buddy was either REALLY close to them, or their tank actually has the Tank 2 TMT.
My buddies loses connection to my Transmitter at about 6 feet. We are not often that close to each other.
But I can slide his computer off his retractor, hit a button, and the icon switches from TANK 1 to TANK 2 and I compare it to my reading.
If he looks at it later and sees TANK 2 (which is obvious) he switches it back to TANK 1.
It's really not complicated at all (on Oceanic's, at least) and I'm not understanding how "multiple readings" can be so confusing. I don't know of a computer that shows more than one reading at a time. All that I've seen you have to select a source, and the source is clearly identified.
If you forget which source is the cylinder you are currently attached to, that's a user error, not a failure of the device to communicate or clearly display pertinent information.
Also, if the device dies on you in the middle of the dive, you obviously didn't have it serviced properly (change battery) or didn't pay attention to the indicators of low battery life.
Of course there are more failure points with Hoseless AI. But I'll trade that any day for the convenience of diving in the same position for the entire duration. No retractors or clips or annoying hoses.