Well, because in some ways I probably am more Hog than you may imagine and Hog is not DIR as is well known. Much of my diving falls very close to Hog and many of the concepts that I now understand as Hog were not invented by you guys but by us (vintage) guys
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Further, as a once professional geologist with MS Plus, I may know a bit more about compasses than many since I have spent months on the outcrop mapping with little more than Brunton and alidade and plan table including some underwater mapping as a professional geologist in the Bahamas. What I would have done for a GPS back then on the outcrop, to bad it did not exist.
A compass worn on the wrist is generally easier to use in my opinion for underwater navigation but since the gentleman asked about it's use on a console and factually I often keep it there when it is being used casually I felt his question fell within my realm. Moreover, the compass I keep on my console is a wrist mount on strap, I just strap it to the small console thus allowing me to quickly change it to my wrist. It also stores that way well keeping everything together so no matter how it is deployed at least it is not forgotten. These huge consoles they have around today are not attractive at all to me and especially with those fire hose long HP hoses dragging the thing along like a Danforth.
H2Andy brings up a good point concerning his arrangement but I notice he mentions also a computer. Now, are computers not DIR acceptable but are they Hog acceptable, wrist or console? I was given one of those gigantoid foot long two sides consoles that are so in vogue today except it has no computer but it does have a slot for one--now--that is bulky--the tiny console I use--when I use it--clips on a 24 inch hose to my LH waist D ring and is not bulky. Truthfully, wrist mounting of everything but SPG ( of course) is my favorite and the more technical my dive the more I favor it that way. Nothing like my wrist ScubaPro 0-500 foot mechanical helium guage to make you techies eyes bug out on stems
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