lloyd_borrett
Contributor
G'day,
Some members of a dive club I'm a member of, like me, already have Nautilus Lifelines and more are planning to get them. However, being safety consious, the dive club is also getting five Nautilus Lifelines to share between club boats and club divers on our club dive days. We typically dive from the private boats of club members.
But just how would you suggest we setup and use these five club devices?
It's not appropriate to assign the units to any one club dive boat as on any given day the units may be in use from a different dive boat with the nominated dive boat not out on the water. Plus the units could be used when doing shore dives as well.
It would be impractical to assign a vessel MMSI number to each of the units based on which dive boats they get used from on each club dive day. Besides, I don't think this is possible. My understanding is that the Nautlus Lifeline software only lets us set the MMSI number once, and after that it can only be changed with the special intervention of Nautilus. Is this correct?
Perhaps we should just leave the MMSI numbers of these five units set to the default 000000 setting. But will that work?
My reading of the documentation leads me to think that the emergency DSC mode of a Nautilus Lifeline won't work until the unit is registered with Nautilus. But once that's done, the unit's emergency mode will work, even though the MMSI number isn't set. Have I go that right?
Are you aware of any other dive clubs with a pool of floating Nautilus Lifelines? If so, how are they using them?
How would you suggest this dive club use them?
Best regards, Lloyd Borrett.
Some members of a dive club I'm a member of, like me, already have Nautilus Lifelines and more are planning to get them. However, being safety consious, the dive club is also getting five Nautilus Lifelines to share between club boats and club divers on our club dive days. We typically dive from the private boats of club members.
But just how would you suggest we setup and use these five club devices?
It's not appropriate to assign the units to any one club dive boat as on any given day the units may be in use from a different dive boat with the nominated dive boat not out on the water. Plus the units could be used when doing shore dives as well.
It would be impractical to assign a vessel MMSI number to each of the units based on which dive boats they get used from on each club dive day. Besides, I don't think this is possible. My understanding is that the Nautlus Lifeline software only lets us set the MMSI number once, and after that it can only be changed with the special intervention of Nautilus. Is this correct?
Perhaps we should just leave the MMSI numbers of these five units set to the default 000000 setting. But will that work?
My reading of the documentation leads me to think that the emergency DSC mode of a Nautilus Lifeline won't work until the unit is registered with Nautilus. But once that's done, the unit's emergency mode will work, even though the MMSI number isn't set. Have I go that right?
Are you aware of any other dive clubs with a pool of floating Nautilus Lifelines? If so, how are they using them?
How would you suggest this dive club use them?
Best regards, Lloyd Borrett.