Where do you put your console on a Pearl i3?

[RJHinPDX]

I'm a diving student - OW dives scheduled for 10/27 and 28. This is my first post to this forum and I hope I'm in the right place.

I have a Pearl i3 BCD. If you have one, can you tell me where you attach your computer console so it doesn't hang? My instructor suggested it should be on my right shoulder (with the hose laying across my body from the left), but there is nowhere to attach it there.

Any ideas are welcome.

 

[ekremer]

On your left waist should be some kind of attachment point. Looking at the image, there is a d-ring just below the knife mount, and another one below that. I would attach it to one of those. Use a bolt snap and zip tie it to your console, then clip the console to the d-ring.


P.S. Welcome to Scubaboard! and welcome to the great world of diving.

 

[RJHinPDX]

On your left waist should be some kind of attachment point. Looking at the image, there is a d-ring just below the knife mount, and another one below that. I would attach it to one of those. Use a bolt snap and zip tie it to your console, then clip the console to the d-ring.


P.S. Welcome to Scubaboard! and welcome to the great world of diving.

Thanks for the welcome! I am alternately anxious and excited about the upcoming certification dives, but I think I'm going to have a great time diving.

I used to live in Boca, by the way. Long ago. When people still ate rocks and wore live animals.

There are, as you say, two D-rings on the left, but they hold the console too far away for me to see it. I have nearly 58-year-old eyes, so I need the thing a little closer.

For the pool sessions I have tucked the console hose under the belt that buckles around my cummerbund. This actually worked fairly well, but I'm not sure it would stay in place on a real dive.

 

[ekremer]

Small world ,

The trick is, when you need to see the console, just unclip it and bring it into your reading view. However, other options are to clip it in the same fashion to the other d-rings on your shoulders. With a bolt snap you can attach it to any d-ring.

 

[rhwestfall]

The advice given is good, and for you it will seem uncomfortable. Perhaps one of the biggest things to get used to is air consumption. A new diver will practically swim around with their pressure gauge in their hand, referring to it almost non-stop. With a number of dives under your belt, it will almost become something that you would look at perhaps a half dozen times or less in an hour dive... Give it time to get used to having it stored away, unclipping it to look at, and returning it to that place again. Work on having an idea what it should read, and see how close you are getting to that estimate as time goes on. On ascent, if your DC is in it, sure, use it in your hand if there is an ascent monitor.

 

[Pottermom]

I found that a clip with a retractable line on it WONDERFUL for my aging eyes. I really need bifocal lenses! lol You can get a clip that has a retractor on it. Attach your console to it and clip that to the best D-ring suitable that works for you. Then when you need to see it you can pull it out arms length if necessary. I use one for my compass and when I had a console computer used it for that also. It does make it hang a little bit down more so you might need to play around a bit to see where is the best location for you. But can't you thread it through the flap of the pocket on your left to keep it in place? I thought that's where the hose went... the flap with the dive knife grommets on it. ??? I have a Lotus i3 and if I had a console computer that's where it would go. (I have a wireless computer now)

In any case, try the retractor. They are great for those of us with those aging eyes.

 

[John_B]

The advice given is good, and for you it will seem uncomfortable. Perhaps one of the biggest things to get used to is air consumption. A new diver will practically swim around with their pressure gauge in their hand, referring to it almost non-stop. With a number of dives under your belt, it will almost become something that you would look at perhaps a half dozen times or less in an hour dive... Give it time to get used to having it stored away, unclipping it to look at, and returning it to that place again. Work on having an idea what it should read, and see how close you are getting to that estimate as time goes on. On ascent, if your DC is in it, sure, use it in your hand if there is an ascent monitor.

+1!

I was taught to check my SPG every five minutes and to be able to guess what the pressure should be against what the gauge actually says. I still do that to this day.

 

[Lizard Leg]

A pic of where my wife attaches her SPG on her non i3 Pearl - bottom left d-ring with a stainless bolt snap. She doesn't even have to unclip to read. Computer and compass are on bungee wrist mounts. And yes, she has pink fingernails painted on her gloves