Which Watch are you wearing today?

[mtngunr]

What's "real depth"? 200 meters? 300 meters?

To put things in perspective, most folk are limited to 30-40m, while the deepest ever SCUBA dive is something just over 330m. You start breathing hypoxic gas compounds and you are considered deep at circa 60m...

 

[surjimmy]

 

[Dmc707]

Starting early

 

[Dmc707]

I think there are under 2000 saturation divers in the US. There truly isn't a huge market for them, but people like me keep getting roped into the escape valve and want one, even though the deepest depth I have ever explored in recent times is 12 ft, and that was in a pool. Way back when I did achieve the saturation dive escape valve necessity of 15 - 20 ft in the Great Lakes. I have two divers now with helium escape valves...

I know I had my Doxa Pro for sale a couple of months ago (guess it still sort of is as I keep purchasing too many other things) —

— but I am glad I still have it as I’m so out of shape my jacuzzi tub could give me the bends

 

[Dmc707]

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Jimmy this chrono looks great!

 

[mtngunr]

Starting early

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Another saturation dive underway.

 

[mtngunr]

I know I had my Doxa Pro for sale a couple of months ago (guess it still sort of is as I keep purchasing too many other things) —

— but I am glad I still have it as I’m so out of shape my jacuzzi tub could give me the bends

Having a dive watch with a helium valve is simply cool, as having your own Indy car to use for runs to the local convenience store is cool, and no denying it.

And same as 99% of dive watches made and sold never see more water than shower/tub, jet ski, inner tube, kayak or canoe. I haven't done any diving since one of many many MOS changes, and buy divers today simply for visibility, ruggedness, and knowing it likely won't leak. That all was important in the military and still important today.

 

[dlbleak]

 

[Matratliff]

What's "real depth"? 200 meters? 300 meters?

Subjective of course. To become qualified as a commercial diver, the deepest depth you have to do is 165-ft for X amount of dives. Then after surfacing, we finished with a chamber ride for decompression. Most folks in my field will go their entire careers and never go past 220-ft. So, to me real depth is planning a working dive past 300-ft or about 10 atmospheres. That’s off the standard Navy dive charts and you need to know what you’re doing. Working dive meaning, you are on-gassing at that depth for a decent amount of time before starting your ascent or off-gassing. Then the ascent itself is tricky.

 

[surjimmy]