My wife and I purchased Scubapro Galileo Lunas a few years ago. I read here about the strap failures so I replaced my strap with bungees. My wife, who is not a fan of bungee cord, did not want her strap changed nor would she allow me to add backup bungees. After some debate, I relented but did say that this was an argument that we would be having eventually.
That argument occurred on March 23 after our second dive of the day on Ron's Reef off of Gaya Island near Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The dive computer was on her wrist for her safety stop but not on her wrist when she grabbed the line to take her fins off. The dive operation - Dive Downbelow - took the loss hard.
On my last dive of the trip on March 26, they took me out to Ron's Reef again with the intention of finding the dive computer before anyone else did. I was pretty skeptical but it was a good dive site so there were no complaints from me. While we geared up, I announced to the other divers that this was a Search and Recovery dive. Someone asked about a reward and I promised ¥20,000.
They kept moving the boat before letting us roll off the boat. They took us in the opposite direction of where we did our safety stop but the dive guide did a long rectangle tour and eventually we were in about 8 meters of water. He really was scanning hard but I was even more skeptical. Then my dive buddy - Andrew - pointed down and there it was! Everyone crowded around but there was no mistake, it had her initials on the back and it was still running.
When we got back to the dock, I gave Andrew the money but he thought I was joking. It took much convincing before he would take the money. My wife, who did not dive that day, met us at the harbor at the end of the day. I introduced her to Andrew. "Aimee, this is Andrew. Your new best friend and saver of our marriage." Then gave her dive computer to her. She was almost speechless.
Her dive was 4,490 minutes at an average depth of 8.9 meters and she still had 98 bar remaining! The strap tore in half near the buckle. I had not seen any tears prior to the dive.
That argument occurred on March 23 after our second dive of the day on Ron's Reef off of Gaya Island near Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The dive computer was on her wrist for her safety stop but not on her wrist when she grabbed the line to take her fins off. The dive operation - Dive Downbelow - took the loss hard.
On my last dive of the trip on March 26, they took me out to Ron's Reef again with the intention of finding the dive computer before anyone else did. I was pretty skeptical but it was a good dive site so there were no complaints from me. While we geared up, I announced to the other divers that this was a Search and Recovery dive. Someone asked about a reward and I promised ¥20,000.
They kept moving the boat before letting us roll off the boat. They took us in the opposite direction of where we did our safety stop but the dive guide did a long rectangle tour and eventually we were in about 8 meters of water. He really was scanning hard but I was even more skeptical. Then my dive buddy - Andrew - pointed down and there it was! Everyone crowded around but there was no mistake, it had her initials on the back and it was still running.
When we got back to the dock, I gave Andrew the money but he thought I was joking. It took much convincing before he would take the money. My wife, who did not dive that day, met us at the harbor at the end of the day. I introduced her to Andrew. "Aimee, this is Andrew. Your new best friend and saver of our marriage." Then gave her dive computer to her. She was almost speechless.
Her dive was 4,490 minutes at an average depth of 8.9 meters and she still had 98 bar remaining! The strap tore in half near the buckle. I had not seen any tears prior to the dive.
