evad once bubbled...
Sorry but since you're not going to be using a console,
you might also be interested in a less bulky depth gauge for your wrist.
No reason to be sorry, I wasn't seriously mad or anything, just being stupid
I would also love to find a less bulky wrist mount depth gauge at a decent price, but it seems the capillary gauges may be the only option in this area... I am thinking that I may try out a capillary gauge and see how I like it. If that doesn't work out then I guess I will take another shot at trying to find one around here for less than $60, or order one online. I totally agree that the prices I have seen for them around here are way too much.
I have had a really hard time finding anyone that wants to sell me anything wrist mount around here. I actually had a salesman who was trying to push me into buying a computer (their cheapest was $350) tell me that he was afraid I was going to go diving without gauges if I didn't buy a console from him, this was right after another salesman at the store laughed at me for not wanting to use a console.....
On another note I dived my new Z1 regs today, worked great. I also loved the wings that the LDS loaned me. I didn't like the tranpack as much and thing I want to go with a standard bp/wings setup whe I can aford it. Until then I will have to live with the knowledge that the rented jacket style BP's arent for me :-(
I didn't have as good of luck with the wetsuit I rented and was thinking about buying. The shop didn't have a wetsuit for rent in my size so he rented me a new parkway scuba instead and offered to sell it to me for a really good price. We settled on me paying the difference when I went to return m gear if I wanted to buy it. He offered me what seems to be a great deal on it, but after 2 dives I can already tell that this thing was not made to last. After just two dives some of the seams have started to look frayed, and I really don't think that is a very good sign.... everyone that I was with seemed to agree that I should just wait until I can afford a Henderson.... It is a tough decision though, since I am going to have to keep renting if I don't buy it, but ultimatly I think it will be better that way, who knows how many dives this suit would even last for....
back to the topic of gauges. I bought a new watch yesterday and used it on my dive today. It is a Timex iromnman Shock. It looks to be the Timex version of the G-Shock, but at $35 was a good amount cheaper. It is rated to 200m, I only went down to 60ft but it didn't leak so I am happy so far. It has both a stop watch and a countdown timer, I think you can even have both running at once. It also has indiglo so it seems to provide all I need in terms of a bottom timer.
~Jess