Shallow water depth gauge

[high_order1]

Just a bourdon tube where the gas transfer in and out is slowed by a ceramic filter in the brass thing

I was just learning about those. I found a rectangular one. Neat that they used a sintered metal or porous stone to simulate tissue.

Do you like phones with rotary dials and coiled cords too?

You have not lived until you have bammed down a phone handle in a rage on someone. Pushing 'end' is positively impotent comparatively speaking.

The rest as they say is history A third the price for a working life half as long with no return to base for maintenance with the logistical service return repair considerations solved. What's not to like.

That's amazing.

Neat how you did an end run around uwatec.

Bet that thing looked like treasure. (I also appreciate fine timepieces, this may color my perceptions from those who see them as tools).

My understanding of the US military is they continue to use analog depth gauges. There are a bunch of metric analog ones for sale, current day, not vintage. Guess the people cutting sea cucumbers want something but not a computer.

I have noticed the princeton tec compact style also seems to have other brands on the dial face. Did they make a bunch for others, or was it scuba IP theft?

Still have not found a single picture of the aqualung milpro Item No. 757767 in feet. Think I will email them.

 

[iain/hsm]

Neat how you did an end run around uwatec.

Heck no that was never the intention. I contacted them out of courtesy to get permission and an understanding also to save any future legal ramifications or patent considerations. The scuba industry is a small world we all interact at some point with each other. My job as a small OEM is to make their stuff discreetly and confidentially then grind their gears when they push off to China with the prototype to make a cheap copy.

The Royal Navy jobs are different for NATO codified projects at the time the MoD would offer design and manufacture contracts. They had what is called Crown Immunity so we theoretically could do what they wanted. Things have change with diving going down the COTS system Commercial off the shelf so it's now scuba gear in black from the sports shops.

Contract conditions and non disclosure agreements do tend to limit what can be declared or shown on a public forum hence why you don't see very much of the details.

20 or 25 years are the conditions set so maybe in the vintage section some time in the future some young lady will re invent the wheel and produce accurate mechanical depth gauges. That or when the lithium runs out as China has it all.

 

[high_order1]

lol They wouldn't show me.

Shawn,



I’m sorry, I don’t have a picture of the shallow water depth gauge (imperial)



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[Pressurehead]

For snorkeling over a reef I have one of these, mind you, I have not done a breath hold dive deeper than 10m for more than 20 years, most of the shallows dives are in the < 5m range looking at coral and the pretty fishy things in warm water.
No idea how accurate the thing is, I am only curious to see how deep I may have gone [and it's never very deep, now].

 

[high_order1]

Very neat!