ResQlink View RLS vs 410 RLS

[Racer_X]

No. As you state. The current combined technology for PLB plus AIS is stupid-sized;. All this "use case" stuff ignores the realities oand readeoffs of the units, and the fact that NONE of them are 100% reliable. Your "all the technolgies" misses the Marine VHF and the InReach network and the fact that many small boats in foreign waters use only VHF radio, none of that special stuff. In fact, my last trip to the Philippines if I wanted to talk to my boat my only viable choice would have been a cell phone.

You're rejecting based on form factor. that's a different argument than saying if 1 fails.

You're rejecting the need for the technology in that specific combination in that package. That's a different argument than saying if 1 fails.

For reference, here's the argument I responded to:

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One BIG point in favor of two separate units is that if one if them fails (flooding, battery, whatever) you still have the other. In a perfect world, of course, that is not relevant. In a perfect world, you would not get lost, either. A good dive plan and equipment choice does not depend upon a perfect world.

See? Nothing about form factor, technology choice, etc. Just redundancy due to a lack of a perfect world for varying values of a perfect world.

If you don't want to carry the 450 and a marine radio, fine. But saying you shouldn't have a 450 because redundancy (as you stated) is not a good argument. That was the point of my post.

You do you, man. If you want to carry different stuff, fine, carry different stuff. Again, there's an infinite series of acceptable risk on the continuum, and debating rationalizations is pointless. How you FEEL about a choice is the rationalization. What each unit provides and its dimensions are not.