Failures on Uwatec 2G wrist straps

[flyboy08]

Any wrist watch or computer needs to be on a NATO band so if one of the pins do break, the watch/computer will still remain on ones wrist.

 

[drbill]

My Dive Rite Nitek Duo straps have never broken (but unfortunately all of the computers have)

 

[sea_ledford]

Those straps are complete garbage. I've had divers break then the first time putting them on out of the box. I have about 18 tec2G/2G/whatever they are called now in the dive locker, and all of them have straps that you just just tug slightly on and break. I swapped out for bungies and double zipties. If I only had one or two I would get the fancy mounts that Tobin sells, but 18 of them would cost a bit more than my gear buget can afford.

I am also just now getting to the point where I have to change batteries on them. From 2011- 2015 the computers would break some how before the batteries died; bad pressure transducers, bad buttons, just stopped turning on. They were replaced under warranty, but after the 4th or 5th one it makes you question the general QC. If I could find a good alternate option I'd swap, but comparable computers are ether so expensive I could almost buy a shearwater, or the UI is so confusing I don't want to bother.

-Chris