Lost Shearwater(s) - Ginnie Springs
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Cert1967
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broncobowsher
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Shearwater doesn't have a GPS nor is it tied into the cellular phone network. So that can't happen.
Only talks to the outside world when connected to Bluetooth. Last thing you would want from a Shearwater would be to be blocked from it because of lack of network while out in the middle of the ocean.
Only talks to the outside world when connected to Bluetooth. Last thing you would want from a Shearwater would be to be blocked from it because of lack of network while out in the middle of the ocean.
No, but SW could implement something that cross checks the SN anytime you log into the cloud against a list of stolen SN.
Technically you could use it and never log into the cloud, but being able to look at stuff post dive is 1/2 the fun.
Again...just spitballing.
I really hope op gets his stuff back. We've all had that feeling...it sucks.
Last year, I lost my Perdix on Grand Cayman. Long story short, Sunset Divers found the DC on the bottom of the salt water pool two days later and mailed it to me. According to my DC, I have now logged a dive of 2728 minutes!
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A few years back a friend lost a DPV at Little River...his homeowners insurance covered the loss.
I was at JB a few years ago got an early start. Left my shorts/sandals on the picnic table where I usually leave them. I disconnected my insulin pump and put it in my cargo shorts pocket. a few hours later I get out of the water, and I failed to take into account that the general public was able to access the park. ARGG. I got back to the picnic table, which was occupied with a large group who rented out the pavilion. I get to the table, which was occupied with a family eating lunch... i look around for my shorts no where... I found my sandals lying in the grass, but no shorts, i asked around and of course no one seen them. I asked nearly everyone at the table... nobody seen nothing... after a good 40 minutes of me walking feeling like a rump roast in a crock pot... (still had my drysuit on, as I had nothing to change into...) around asking nearly everyone there, one man approached and told me he seen a family was there before they arrived. he described the family, and told me they didn't rent the pavilion out, and so they had to leave to another table. I started walking around looking for that family. Up at the other table on top the hill, I approached and was talking to a woman, she told me they were at the table. I asked if she possibly picked up some cargo shorts, she said her son left his cargo shorts, i asked if I could see them just to make sure they weren't mine. She showed them to me, and inside was my insulin pump! I was relieved. but it was very fortunate that I was there in time, as they were packing up and about to leave.
It was a good learning lesson.. now when the general public can access the park. that all goes into the vehicle.
It was a good learning lesson.. now when the general public can access the park. that all goes into the vehicle.
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I had a very similar experience at Ginnie Springs. I was there the day before my full cave class started, just getting in the water at the Ballroom to make sure all of my equipment worked. I had two dive bags: one with all my mechanical scuba equipment, and one with all of my exposure equipment.
It was Christmas Eve, and the park was virtually empty: there was exactly one other group at the ballroom except for me. They were non-divers, they were there before I got there, and they packed up while I was there. It was a fairly big group: it looked like two families.
It was about 10 or so minutes after they left that I went to go get some thing out of my exposure bag: and it wasn’t there. Uh oh. I was pretty sure the people that left took it. There was no other place it could be.
This was like worst case scenario. If they had taken all of my scuba gear, I could replace that pretty straightforwardly: for the most part, a regulator is a regulator. But all my exposure gear? I’m not freakishly shaped, but not exactly standard, and finding stuff that fits properly is not as easy as swapping out regs. Of course, my other thought was: who wants a bag of used neoprene, and very unlikely to fit anyone?
So I started calling around trying to see if I could get some replacements. Did I mention it was Christmas Eve? And like 5 PM? I spent like 20 minutes trying to work this out when a car drove up and a head popped out and asked, “Are you missing a bag?”
Turns out someone grabbed my bag thinking it was theirs and put it in the car. After driving about 15 minutes, somebody mentioned the extra bag that they picked up. They realized it wasn’t theirs, and was probably that diver guy that was next to them. So they drove back, and I was still there, so I got my bag back!
I’m just glad I had been nice to them earlier and answered all their questions about what I was doing!
A lot of people talk about how things get stolen at Ginnie all the time. I haven’t dove there a ton, but I haven’t really seen any reason to think that that is especially true. But the more people that are around, the more likely that perfectly honest accidents can happen: someone accidentally taking a bag, or somebody accidentally knocking something off a bench and you missing it, or whatever.
So I agree with you: where the public has easy access to my dive gear, access to that dive gear must be controlled!
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