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If you do get one don't bother with any of the cleaners - they usually scratch and don't work well anyway. Buy a Arm & Hammer magic eraser sponge. Cut a corner off and keep it in your bag - doesn't matter if it gets wet. Rub that thing once or twice across the slate and voila - clean slate.
But do they like me, or do they LIKE ME like me?
Just as an aside, how long do you suppose it will be until some company develops underwater text messaging for those folks so addicted to texting that they can't go more than a few minutes without sending a message to their friends?
I suppose if you have the Verizon network following you around on a dive, the shark will have plenty of choices for someone to munch besides you.
There is a device that can do that, although diver/boat location is more what it's geared forI was just about to say...how long before someone invents a waterproof crackberry-like messaging device to replace the slate. Hey, I just did!
Thanks for that tip. I quit using my slate because it was so hard to clean. Great idea!
[-]Mmm, the only time I can think of is when some other divers looked sort of lost. I wrote them the compass reading for the boat...[/-]
Sometimes when I'm lost I'll use it to ask for directions.
Magnadoodles are good, but this saves a lot of time...
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It is a military biased version, but use your imagination and go visit Kinkos to have it laminated.
This one shows compass (with 1/4 point reminders) and reciprocals (the very small table to the left), and an actual ruler in Metric and English SAE.
Change it up to recreational words, and if nothing else, the "typewriter" proved to be extremely effective in testing of communication of complex ideas.
First: What is a typewriter?
The diary of course. Since I don't keep one. Now a grocery list reminding me to get butter for the lobster or blackening seasoning for the fish now that is mighty fine idea. Heck now I might need two slates! :doh:
Just as an aside, how long do you suppose it will be until some company develops underwater text messaging for those folks so addicted to texting that they can't go more than a few minutes without sending a message to their friends?