How to use a diver watch bezel like a Rolex submariner????

Always written on the slate as part of the pre-dive plan......

 

Who knows how to use those things, that's why I have a $30 digital watch.

 

That's why you use a Rolex. She said, straight-faced.

 

I mentioned it in post #4...

On tech dives, yeah. It's still a valid application, since most people look at their timer more often than their slate/wetnotes during a dive

 

Ya, and with a Rolex one may be able to simply skip adding ditch-able weights too! 18K or Platinum Presidents would nock off the need for a bit of lead.

 

interestingly enough, all this discussion is for (in my world) a back-up device as the computer is leading (well, actually the plan is leading with the computer recording the details, but that is a whole different topic).......

There is such a push to computers - Yet I dove recreationally for over 10 years on my watch (or a bottom timer) and the Wheel with a dive plan on a slate. For recreational diving, its not unrealistic, especially here, where square profiles are actually what we dive (down tha anchor line, around the wreck, back up the anchor line).

 

I have an old Omega Seamaster, and this is how I use mine.

 

For my dive watch I set the bezel marker on the minute hand when I start my dive. I can then count the number of minutes between the bezel marker and the minute hand to determine how long I have been diving for. The important thing to note for my watch is that if I try to rotate the dial it will rotate towards the minute hand, reducing the amount of time between the bezel marker and the minute hand. This means if I accidentally bump the bezel, it will not add minutes to my dive, it will reduce them.

If I set my bezel marker on the position for when I want to finish the dive and bump the bezel, it will make my dive longer than I wanted. This could be a problem.

If there is a watch which does a count up, the bezel should rotate counter-clockwise.

 

Um, no. Then you'll go into NDL without knowing it

 

Doh, I don't have the watch in front of me but now that I think about it, my watch rotates counter-clockwise. So if you accidentally bump it, it adds time to the dive. That is, if you bump it and it moves 5 minutes, it will add 5 minutes to the displayed dive time thus subtracting 5 minutes from my dive and decreasing the amount of time I actually dive.