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Mike Veitch was the chef when I was on the Tahiti Aggressor. That was much more hazardous than anything that happened in the water ... I quoted him in my book when he said, "Let the Frenchies do the shark feeding!"
4 diveres went missing - Malpelo, Colombia
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Best comment ever.Damn photographers not paying attention...
infieldg
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It's definitely time I bought a PLB too, thanks for the reminder!
The new half-sized Nautilus lifeline is still pretty chunky and has no radio, but it's good for 130m/425ft ;
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Edit - saw Dan T's thread on the nautilus from sept 21st, good read ta! I just pre-ordered one from Nautilus, if I start shopping around and reading reviews I'll just end up not buying one - that's why I still don't have a CO analyzer...
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Dan
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Scuba diver's Personal Locator Beacon - how never to be lost at sea
The issue that made me shy away from the new Nautilus Lifeline (NL) was the 1 watt transmission power, especially after reading seeker242 post # 194 (p.20 of link above). He said "I work on AIS systems for a living. It's not sufficient. Not to go 34 miles to another boat. A standard AIS, which transmits at 12 watts, can sometimes only be picked up to 10 miles max. 1w would not be nearly as good!" and where I'll be using it (in Indonesia), where often they have old radio without AIS system and may not even listen to it. That situation would make having NL is close to useless. So, I ended up asking for a refund of my preordered NL.
If you plan to use NL in USA or Canada, it may be OK. Most boats have AIS integrated with VHF transceiver with a positioning system such as a GPS is a standard boat communication device.
In my case, if I'm lost at sea in Indonesia, floating more than an hour and no boat is visible in the horizon, or my liveaboard hits a reef and starts to sink, I might as well launch the 5 watt 406 MHz SOS signal directly to the SAR satellites. Let NOAA alert US Navy & BaSARnas (Indonesian SAR agency) to search and rescue the US asset (me), rather than launching SOS signal from NL and "hoping" the weak 1 watt VHF SOS signal be heard by some boats that "may" have AIS integrated VHF transceiver and they "happen" to listen to channel 16.
The issue that made me shy away from the new Nautilus Lifeline (NL) was the 1 watt transmission power, especially after reading seeker242 post # 194 (p.20 of link above). He said "I work on AIS systems for a living. It's not sufficient. Not to go 34 miles to another boat. A standard AIS, which transmits at 12 watts, can sometimes only be picked up to 10 miles max. 1w would not be nearly as good!" and where I'll be using it (in Indonesia), where often they have old radio without AIS system and may not even listen to it. That situation would make having NL is close to useless. So, I ended up asking for a refund of my preordered NL.
If you plan to use NL in USA or Canada, it may be OK. Most boats have AIS integrated with VHF transceiver with a positioning system such as a GPS is a standard boat communication device.
In my case, if I'm lost at sea in Indonesia, floating more than an hour and no boat is visible in the horizon, or my liveaboard hits a reef and starts to sink, I might as well launch the 5 watt 406 MHz SOS signal directly to the SAR satellites. Let NOAA alert US Navy & BaSARnas (Indonesian SAR agency) to search and rescue the US asset (me), rather than launching SOS signal from NL and "hoping" the weak 1 watt VHF SOS signal be heard by some boats that "may" have AIS integrated VHF transceiver and they "happen" to listen to channel 16.
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infieldg
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Thanks sooo much for that detail, keep thinking "they wouldn't make it if it wasn't the best of the best" but if their focus was small they're gonna compromise. I'll do more homework - I live in Wellington, New Zealand, on the shore of Cook's Strait which has some pretty mean currents if you drift off, but also some serious swell sometimes so I should really do my homework - might just get the biggie. Thank you!!
archer1960
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So, does anybody else make an equivalent of the old NLL? I.E., one that can also be used as a voice radio rather than just a GPS beacon?
Dizzi Lizzi
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I got mine on amazon as a Body Glove lifeline. It should arrive in a few days, the reviews say all the documentation in the box is Nautilus Life Line, it just has a body glove sticker on the top. Also in this topic someone writes that Nautilus is going to come out with another vhf/gps sometime.... If I had known I prob would have waited...I suspect it will be smaller than the original.
Scuba diver's Personal Locator Beacon - how never to be lost at sea
Scuba diver's Personal Locator Beacon - how never to be lost at sea
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KevinNM
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The new lifeline apparently isn't a radio you can talk on, just a distress beacon.
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