erparamedic
Vampire Girl......er Dork
First, I'll give the scenario, then what I did....
Hubby and I went on a Treasure Hunt dive yesterday. We knew the max depth for this particular quarry was 28 feet. I am one that is constantly checking my computer... probably more than I should. Apx. 5-7 minutes after our decent, I looked at my computer (which had been fine!) and it was dead... I could push the on button and it would scroll thru the "logs" then it would shut right back off. I tried this 3 times... and it wouldn't stay on. My husband, who was also my dive buddy, was signalling that he didn't know what was wrong with it either. He dives with 2 computers... his Oceanic computer/guages, and his Aqualand (?) watch... which is a complete computer in itself. My air guage was NOT dependant upon my computer, so... I knew how much air I had.... I knew (within 3 or 4 minutes) about how long I had been down at that point. I signalled my husband that we would find the "loot", then we would turn back navigate back toward the beach.... thuse making it a shorter dive, but playing it safe.
Now, I know, I know... you should never dive your buddy's computer... but I used it only to monitor my depth... which was never below 23 feet (remember max in this particular quarry is 28 feet). I felt that under the circumstances, I was fine to continue the dive. I just monitored my air, and every once in a while, I checked the depth on my husband's computer. We got in a 34 minute dive.... found our "loot" and we wound up winning a gear cleaning kit (worth $40-$50) and a baseball cap and license plate frame.
All in all, it was a good dive. The vis was ok.... some places we had 15 feet, other places, we would swim directly into a total silt-out. We handled our very first equiptment failure... in 10 years of diving! I think it still went quite well.
Has anyone else ever had something similar happen? What did you do?
Hubby and I went on a Treasure Hunt dive yesterday. We knew the max depth for this particular quarry was 28 feet. I am one that is constantly checking my computer... probably more than I should. Apx. 5-7 minutes after our decent, I looked at my computer (which had been fine!) and it was dead... I could push the on button and it would scroll thru the "logs" then it would shut right back off. I tried this 3 times... and it wouldn't stay on. My husband, who was also my dive buddy, was signalling that he didn't know what was wrong with it either. He dives with 2 computers... his Oceanic computer/guages, and his Aqualand (?) watch... which is a complete computer in itself. My air guage was NOT dependant upon my computer, so... I knew how much air I had.... I knew (within 3 or 4 minutes) about how long I had been down at that point. I signalled my husband that we would find the "loot", then we would turn back navigate back toward the beach.... thuse making it a shorter dive, but playing it safe.
Now, I know, I know... you should never dive your buddy's computer... but I used it only to monitor my depth... which was never below 23 feet (remember max in this particular quarry is 28 feet). I felt that under the circumstances, I was fine to continue the dive. I just monitored my air, and every once in a while, I checked the depth on my husband's computer. We got in a 34 minute dive.... found our "loot" and we wound up winning a gear cleaning kit (worth $40-$50) and a baseball cap and license plate frame.
All in all, it was a good dive. The vis was ok.... some places we had 15 feet, other places, we would swim directly into a total silt-out. We handled our very first equiptment failure... in 10 years of diving! I think it still went quite well.
Has anyone else ever had something similar happen? What did you do?
