flyingvisit
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Right, still trying to figure out equipment set up. Had some great advice from this board in terms of a PSI/BAR SPG, but now I'm wondering about other gauges.
At the moment, I have a dive computer, bought it straight after getting my certification. However, I'm obviously aware that it might fail/break on me at some point. So the advice given is to abort the dive, fair enough. But how will I know how fast I am ascending, or how to time my safety stops (or even know when to do them) etc. Do you just at this point rely on your buddy?
So basically, I'm leaning towards a fairly streamlined set up (leaning towards DIR, but probably not quite there), with just an spg and not a whole console dragging around, but should I get a back up depth gauge too? And where to mount it? I'm going to by a simple dive watch as my back up timer (any good advice on what make to get?) but what about a depth gauge? I don't really want wrist mounted, as I'll already have computer and watch on right side and compass on left. What does everyone else do? Do you carry back ups of everything? Or am I over compensating here? Surely for even the divers who don't use computers, their bottom timer/depth gauges fail at times? What do they do?
Thanks in advance!
At the moment, I have a dive computer, bought it straight after getting my certification. However, I'm obviously aware that it might fail/break on me at some point. So the advice given is to abort the dive, fair enough. But how will I know how fast I am ascending, or how to time my safety stops (or even know when to do them) etc. Do you just at this point rely on your buddy?
So basically, I'm leaning towards a fairly streamlined set up (leaning towards DIR, but probably not quite there), with just an spg and not a whole console dragging around, but should I get a back up depth gauge too? And where to mount it? I'm going to by a simple dive watch as my back up timer (any good advice on what make to get?) but what about a depth gauge? I don't really want wrist mounted, as I'll already have computer and watch on right side and compass on left. What does everyone else do? Do you carry back ups of everything? Or am I over compensating here? Surely for even the divers who don't use computers, their bottom timer/depth gauges fail at times? What do they do?
Thanks in advance!