Somehow, dont' ask now, I kicked it into freediving mode while doing SCUBA. At 5 minutes it beeped, and said hey dummy. Not catching my mistake immediatly after the alarm, I can't make surface within the 1 minute period they give you before it kicks into error mode.
Ok, now it's in this error mode for 48 hrs to remind me of what an idiot I am to have did that in the first place. I figure ok, I can deal with that, and I wore the watch on 2 dives the next day but didn't rely on the computer functions. (Ugh.. manual dive planning)
Over the next two days I checked in on the watch and saw the surface time displayed alternating with a countdown to 48 hours.. much like the no-fly counts down. Also planning mode is disabled. Being a techie, I'm thinking this is pretty cool.. everything is happening just like they said it would. I checked again after the 48 hour error time expecting to see things nice and normal again. WRONG. It's still counting up on surface time. However there is no alternating countdown and planning mode is available. At the point I write this note my surface time is reading almost 71 hours.
I dropped a note on Suunto's website and got a canned reply back to take it in for service.
From reading other posts, it seems Suunto's customer service is great but I did buy the computer used so I'm expecting a long turn aorund and possibly a high bill for the repairs, whatever they are.
I kicking around the idea of going diving with it again tomorrow. My theory being, is that once I sink below the surface, it will realize my surface interval is over, and it will treat this as a succesive dive with 100 hours surface interval.
Bob (who wont make *that* mistake again)
