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Hosed means a console. Ugh. No freaking way.
Wireless computer on my wrist. Perdix.
I dived with that configuration for 8 years, 2002-2010, it worked just fineif run properly in backmount *i.e. clipped across to your right chest d-ring they aren't bad at all and I have no objection to them as a configuration
I dived with that configuration for 8 years, 2002-2010, it worked just fine
I can't speak for others but for me no, the point of the transmitter was not to delete a hose. It was to get my pressure and up-to-the-second TTS calc on my wrist. Purely a convenience but I've grown to really like it. Now given how bulletproof the Perdix AI has been, I may in fact drop the SPG hose some day. That is just an added benefit but isn't why I went with the AI initially.
So do I, 2nd most frequent configuration in the prior pollI use a hoseless AI computer, but also dive with a SPG and backup wrist computer.
I use an Oceanic ProPlus 3 hosed AI computer on a retractor clipped to my left chest D-Ring (no "danglies").
With a hosed AI computer, I only have one piece of gear to worry about