Its the combo of your gear and your actions that I think says more about you than just your gear.
When I was but a wee open water diver I was in Kauai. We had booked a nitrox class and a bunch of dives with a dive center. The instructor assigned to us had us conduct a few days of local dives before they agreed to take us to Ni'ihau and the Nāpali coast dives. It was the morning of the Nāpali coast dive and a new diver is setting up on the boat and he is bragging about all the gear he has. Seriously who knew that Pata-Gucci made wetsuits? Anyways he is talking this big game the entire ride out to the dive site. So we splash and start doing the dive, its a follow the leader type dive. At one point I hear a beeping sound I don't think too much about it but remember the area I hear it in. A few minutes later Señor Pata-Gucci starts pretty frantically looking all around, sort of looks like what I imagine an seizure underwater looks like, he has lost his AI computer and has no SPG backup. I tell my wife to go signal the instructor I'm turning around since I know about where it is. This wasn't a drift dive but there was current. So I swim back against the current to where I heard the beeping and find the dive computer lodged against a rock and start swimming back towards the path the group was on. When the computer finally reconnects to the AI pod on the tank it registers 100 PSI.....
When I was but a wee open water diver I was in Kauai. We had booked a nitrox class and a bunch of dives with a dive center. The instructor assigned to us had us conduct a few days of local dives before they agreed to take us to Ni'ihau and the Nāpali coast dives. It was the morning of the Nāpali coast dive and a new diver is setting up on the boat and he is bragging about all the gear he has. Seriously who knew that Pata-Gucci made wetsuits? Anyways he is talking this big game the entire ride out to the dive site. So we splash and start doing the dive, its a follow the leader type dive. At one point I hear a beeping sound I don't think too much about it but remember the area I hear it in. A few minutes later Señor Pata-Gucci starts pretty frantically looking all around, sort of looks like what I imagine an seizure underwater looks like, he has lost his AI computer and has no SPG backup. I tell my wife to go signal the instructor I'm turning around since I know about where it is. This wasn't a drift dive but there was current. So I swim back against the current to where I heard the beeping and find the dive computer lodged against a rock and start swimming back towards the path the group was on. When the computer finally reconnects to the AI pod on the tank it registers 100 PSI.....
