wrist compasses--suggestions?

[parzych]

I'm looking to get a new wrist compass.

Any suggestions for good brands, and ones that I should avoid?


thanks!

 

[Karl_in_Calif]

Mine has a large luminous read-out. That makes it easy to read on night dives.

 

[scubasean]

$55 for mine...Bought today.

Sean

 

[ERP]

I have an suunto SK7, and some oceanic wrist mounted compass.

I much prefer the SK7, it's much less sensitive to the angle it's held at, you have to work to jam it.

I know a lot of people who use SK6's which are really compact, depends what your looking for.

 

[Scubaroo]

I've used both - they're both great compasses, but the standard wrist straps on both models suck. The SK6 is very compact, but as ERP said, the SK7 is readable and accurate when tilted.

 

[Bob3]

Another vote for the Suunto, I like the 7.

When I ordered mine, my dealer/buddy tossed in one of those tiny 1/2" zipper pull compases in the box & buried the "real" one underneath.
As he had hoped, he got a rise out of me.

 

[cyklon_300]

But, do yourself a favor and take the POS strap off and replace with two loops of bungee cord...

 

[Boogie711]

Another vote for the bungeed SK7.

 

[Waterborne]

I picked up an SK-5 that was new in the box from a dive shop that was going out of business for something around $15-20. It was new-old stock from the shop that had been in the back for a long time. I added some shock cord wrist straps and have been using it since. It's just a basic reverse bezel compass that does it's job and doesn't take up alot of space.

 

[Gator Diver]

I have a SK-7...paid 41 smackers for it....
frankly I havent had to use it much yet
except for class