Been busy diving

[Manatee Diver]

I was wondering where your EX35 was.

 

[Marie13]

I was wondering where your EX35 was.

I use it for cave diving now. I use one of my CX2 when wreck diving or fun diving like this. It’s just simpler and less to lug around. It’s still pretty bright.

 

[Manatee Diver]

I use it for cave diving now. I use one of my CX2 when wreck diving or fun diving like this. It’s just simpler and less to lug around. It’s still pretty bright.

I keep my handheld HP50 for the same reason.

 

[Marie13]

Second dive was a sh*tshow. Allergies have been bad and right ear didn’t want to equalize. While I stopped to deal with that, bungee on Perdix on my right arm decided to come loose. It fell off. Thank goodness buddy saw it and handed it to me. That would have been an expensive dive. It’s my backup for CCR and both transmitters are connected to it. I had already been thinking about putting the Shearwater elastic straps back on it, but I hadn’t done that yet.

 

[Joneill]

Just some fun photos from diving at Pearl Lake in South Beloit, IL yesterday. When a buddy with a big camera rig who takes excellent photos wants to come along, you say yes immediately! Big light on my left hand is a video light I was carrying as I was “modeling.” I think the photo with the blue gill giving the camera a big stink eye will probably end up as one of the photos on my Christmas card! LOLView attachment 800759View attachment 800760View attachment 800761View attachment 800762View attachment 800763

Two questions:

Is the black circle in the last picture hiding some sort of sign language/hand gesture?

The loose cord coming off of your Petral 3 looks like it could get caught on something - should that be secured closer to your body in some way? It is that just how these things are normally set up?

 

[Whitrzac]

I love the elastic straps that SW includes. IDK why a ton of people swap for bungee.
The straps need to be flipped depending on what wrist the computer is on, it makes it way easier to put on.

 

[rddvet]

The loose cord coming off of your Petral 3 looks like it could get caught on something - should that be secured closer to your body in some way? It is that just how these things are normally set up?

Most people combat this by twisting the cord around your forearm. Think put computer on arm loosely, spin computer 360 around wrist and tighten, magically extra cord is gone. It really doesn't matter much unless youre in a cave or wreck. Though depending on how it bends it could annoy you when handling stages/deco bottles

I love the elastic straps that SW includes. IDK why a ton of people swap for bungee.
The straps need to be flipped depending on what wrist the computer is on, it makes it way easier to put on.

Yeah I love the elastic straps too. Secret is have someone sew the ends with a loop so the plastic parts cant come off. I hated them at first because when I'd loosen the side where the male part of the clip is, sometimes I'd loosen too much and the strap would start coming out. I had my wife sew the end into a loop (folded half an inch on itself and sewed.) Made it much nicer to deal with.

 

[Marie13]

Two questions:

Is the black circle in the last picture hiding some sort of sign language/hand gesture?

The loose cord coming off of your Petral 3 looks like it could get caught on something - should that be secured closer to your body in some way? It is that just how these things are normally set up?

It’s a bowling ball.

Eh, guess I have to pay more attention to the cable. I’m just doing OW dives now.

 

[Wibble]

I love the elastic straps that SW includes. IDK why a ton of people swap for bungee.
The straps need to be flipped depending on what wrist the computer is on, it makes it way easier to put on.

The straps are a pig to connect with dry gloves. Bungees are so much easier to pull on and they stay in place. Also you can put a Trilobite line cutter under.

Well, that was my experience anyway.

 

[Marie13]

The straps are a pig to connect with dry gloves. Bungees are so much easier to pull on and they stay in place. Also you can put a Trilobite line cutter under.

Well, that was my experience.

How I do it: connect straps, but loosen them all the way. Do this before you put dry gloves on. I usually put computers on before I have dry gloves on. Tighten the straps once on.