Wrist mount or Console?

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TX101:
obviously you simply hang your camera off your large head in your 5 knot current.


My, my aren't we catty? :11:
 
Mike Veitch:
Besides, i can't stand wearing watch or computer or anything on my left wrist...and to make matters more difficult, i wear it with the face on the inside of my wrist.

If you read this again you will see why i don't wear anything on my left wrist including on land. :wink:
 
FyrFytr:
I was wondering what people thought about getting one set in the gague console versus wearing it on your wrist.

Thanks in advance :cheers:

Both! I have a wrist mount on my left wrist and a backup computer on my console. Redundancy at its best.
 
TX101:
To the people who mount their computer on their right wrist.. what do you do when you are ascending on a reel/smb? You have to hold the reel in your left hand and turn the reel with your right. You can't see the computer on your right hand if you do this.
I find it easiest to hold the reel in my right hand with the computer rolled around the wrist a bit so it easily visible. That way, the left is free to wind and manage dumping air as required. So after the reel's deployed, it's really just a matter of wind and pause, wind and pause. Never been a problem.
 
Personally, I got tired of dragging a console at my hip even with it attached using a retractor. It was just too large and cumbersome with the SPG, depth gauge, and compass (didn't have a computer yet). When I found a wrist mounted computer (non-air integrated), I chucked the old console, put the compass on my left wrist along with my watch, put the computer on my right wrist, and bought a Scubapro VIP Minigauge for the SPG and depth backup (it's about 1/4 the size of my old console).

I'm now much more streamlined than I was, and it's easier to manuever the small gauge to check air. Having the compass and computer on my wrists makes it FAR quicker to look at my readings, and I can actually follow the compass now rather than trying to manuever the clunker mount I had before.

If you're used to a pocketwatch, get a console mount. If you wear a wristwatch, you're probably better off with a wrist mount computer. :D
 
Being left-handed, I grew up wearing watches on my right wrist - seemed a logical place to place a computer when I started diving. With a compass on the left wrist, and a compact SPG clipped to a left d-ring, I was cool before I knew it.
 
I bought a Suunto Vyper Console mount, but this model has the option of pulling the computer out of the console boot and attaching a watch band to it and having a wrist mount. I could go either way, but I will stay with console mount for now.
 

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