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• Jun 6, 2005

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Question;
sometime ago I read somewhere in a magazine that of course I can't find now about an device that you can clip on the anchor line or the starting point of your dive and using a second piece attached to the diver it would lead you back to the starting point kinda like a underwater gps has anyone heard of such a critter and if so where.
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• Jun 6, 2005

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http://www.desertstar.com/newsite/sport/sportscout.html

 

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• Jun 6, 2005

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The Uwatec Neverlost--never really caught on.
http://www.scubamarket.com/eng/stuw0001.php

 

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looks very redundant to me,

 

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• Jun 10, 2005

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redundant .....not when you are diving the channel Isl. chasing lobster and halibut and you wonder away or as so many time the current changes and the vis goes to crap.
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• Jun 10, 2005

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I thought it was called a compass

 

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• Jun 10, 2005

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vladimir:

The Uwatec Neverlost--never really caught on.
http://www.scubamarket.com/eng/stuw0001.php

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Maybe those that could afford it didn't need it...

 

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• Jun 10, 2005

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Diversauras:

Maybe those that could afford it didn't need it...

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It's all just tools in a toolbox.

Like upreels, slurp guns (for collecting small tropical reef specimens), and crowbars, lots of equipment works real well for extremely limited applications. Richard Pyle dives with a syringe, which he uses to relieve gas pressure from the bladders of fish he collects at depth. Most divers might not carry a syringe with them. Most divers might not need a direction finder, either, but then again most divers don't drop down into brown slurry and lay on the bottom feeling around in zero vis for fossil megalodon teeth either.

What you need depends on what you're doing. There are many specialty diving applications. Thats why sometimes its good to have a toolbox full of tools that you know how to use.