Rental gear

[Ber Rabbit]

When you have rented a regulator what did the console contain? Pressure gauge obviously, but was there also a depth gauge, compass or computer?

Shop owners, what's on the console of your rental string? Is it unusual to rent regulators that only have a pressure gauge?
Ber

 

[Warren_L]

When I used to rent, it always came with a SPG and depth guage.

 

[Hallmac]

SPG
Depth
Compass
contained in a piviot console

Hallmac

 

[jrg]

I've never seen a rental with only a pressure gauge & no depth gauge. They usually come with a compass but not always. Sometimes you can get one with a computer in it but it costs more to rent.

 

[SOUTH DEVON]

Yes I once had a rented gauge that only had pressure and no depth , which I wasn't very happy about as a newbe and in the UK with poor vis you can't see the surface and didn't have a clue how deep I was !!!!!! Not recommended

 

[scubasean]

Hallmac once bubbled...
SPG
Depth
Compass
contained in a piviot console

Hallmac

Ditto on the equipment my son gets when we rent for him.

Sean

 

[erwin]

SPG and Depth Gauge

Some have compasses.

 

[itziar]

After 35 dives, I am still renting gear. So far, I have run across two dive shops with just pressure gauges and no depth gauges in their consoles. One of them is in Elba, Italy, and the other in Veracruz, Mexico.

Now I always e-mail the shop and ask before I rent from them.

Itziar

 

[Gator Diver]

I have rented analog guages that have an SPG and depth guage as well as SPG only guage. Luckily that day I knew my max
depth was only 35ft so it really didnt' matter, but still
not recommended.

Now I own an analog SPG and depth guage as well
as a dive computer. (Redundant, maybe, but
gives me peace of mind in case of computer failure)

 

[Damselfish]

A couple times when I was renting (many years ago) my LDS tried to give me one with pressure, no depth gauge. I think that's bogus and always insisted on a depth gauge.