Scooter gauges- clipped off

np251 · Jul 15, 2011

Hi all

All you people that mount your compass and bottom timers to your scooters (great write up BTW fdog!) Do you also wrist mount a second set for when the scooter is clipped off?

Just curious is all. Thanks

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TSandM · Jul 15, 2011

I don't mount a depth gauge on my scooter, but I do put a compass there, and yes, I wear one on my wrist as well.

Peter_C · Jul 16, 2011

TSandM:
I don't mount a depth gauge on my scooter, but I do put a compass there, and yes, I wear one on my wrist as well.

Same here. If I had room or made a mount large enough for a bottom timer/depth gauge I probably would have added one. The compass I use all the time on the scooter. It is easy enough to look at my bottom timer/depth gauge mounted on my wrist though.

Camerone · Jul 16, 2011

Absolutely. I have an old Suunto air computer that I got for free, which use I as a BT/depth gauge, and a spare SK-7 compass, both permanently mounted to the scooter. _Neither_ is the primary instrument I rely on underwater. Those belong on my wrist.

The scooter compass and depth/bottom timer is simply for convenience while on the trigger and nothing more.

There are a lot of times you "clip off" a scooter, and not just to yourself - inside a wreck, along a passage in a cave, etc. Your primary information instruments belong attached to you, and anything else is just convenience/redundancy.

fdog · Jul 16, 2011

Thanks for the props!

Yes, I always wear a compass and a bottom timer (computer). If I need to abandon the scooter or hand it off, I can carry on the dive. I use the console on the scooter for navigation and profile.

All the best, James

np251 · Jul 16, 2011

Thanks for the responses guys, appreciate it. Im no where near buying a scooter, just curious really. My Vyper is getting a little flaky (the beeper keeps cutting out and i cant download profiles with the SDM4 'upgraded' software) Instead of flipping it for something else (i like the Xen VERY much) i might hang on to it in case.

Cheers

DT · Jul 17, 2011

On my Aquazepp I have a OMS bottom timer and a large compass and If the scooter fails or is passed off I always have on my wrist my primary computor.

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