Scuba anyone?

[Giles]

In their defence, I have ordered a lot of stuff from them in the past with no issues. But because I have never had a problem before, I have not had to contact their customer disservice department.....

[Karol]

@Giles Thinking what to do here, and this seem to be your closest authorized dealer - https://andark.co.uk/ just on the other side of the Southampton water.
Bridge Rd, Swanwick,, 256 , Southampton

Go with someone local that will support you when there is time for a maintanance, etc

[Karol]

@Giles thanks for the context, the X-deep wing is not a trivial matter, so it sucks that they failed on this. And the bloody pockets just sort of appeared out of nowhere, then you add the email insinuation... you see where it goes.

[Giles]

Thank you. I'm not that bothered with maintenance on a BCD, most of it I can do myself. In 22 years of regular diving, I've only needed to send a BCD away once, and in retrospect, I did not need to do that :-). Regs, now that is another matter. But with them, again, I don't get them serviced that often, 2 times I have sent them away, they have failed on the first dive post service. I look after my gear pretty well, and know if something isn't right pretty early on.

Also, I don't do anything extreme any longer. I think the deepest I have dived in the last 15 years is 35m, I can get up from there very safely on a lung full of air, and I'm not that bothered if I miss a safety stop....And I dive Nitrox, so there is a fairly shallow dive limit.

As I said to someone who was fussing over me in Indonesia, I've done 750 dives, and aint died yet....

[Karol]

@Giles what have you done in Raja?

[Giles]

Nothing, but the guide at the resort seemed to assume I was a beginner and asked me what my air was every 5 minutes or so, it really pissed me off....

I know what my air is within plus or minus 5 bar at all times, I know if I am consuming a little too much because I am rooting around a little deeper that the others, that I need to shallow up to compensate, and I know that when I get to 5 meters, I can last for ever......

[Karol]

The servicing is sometimes indeed a dice roll. During one of my first liveaboard safaris, we agreed with my diving buddy to do air sharing exercises. At 15m when we decided to do it, I got a mouth full of salt water. At the surface it was identified that the membrane was set backwards. After the service...
I bet that your trigger to go up is more about not getting into too much deco rather than the air consumption.

[Giles]

Often on the second and subsequent dives in a day, yes

[Giles]

I got rid of my Suunto computer because it was overly cautious. It locked me out one day because of something trivial, so I had to borrow a computer from the dive operation. I was not familiar with it and missed a deco stop. I had to do a 40 minute safety stop - I was not popular....

[Karol]

it adds up, and computer is keeping us honest
and that is why we have gradient factors, so they don't fuck with us.

[Karol]

@Giles said in Scuba anyone?:

I got rid of my Suunto computer because it was overly cautious. It locked me out one day because of something trivial, so I had to borrow a computer from the dive operation. I was not familiar with it and missed a deco stop. I had to do a 40 minute safety stop - I was not popular....

The Suunto lock was notorious! I was diving under a constant fear of breaking the rules. The terror!!!
Now Im happy to announce that on top of, reduced gradient bubble model, they adapted Bühlmann 16 GF algorithm with GF
Those bastards went the Sharewatter way 5 months after I bought my Shearwater PERDIX 2. Felt almost robbed. But my daughter was a winner here as she got the computer and the air integration.

For onlookers to this thread - the 16 stands for 16 types of tissues that this model takes under consideration base on their reaction to a changing pressure gradient, and the GF stands for Gradient Factors.

[Giles]

I have a Shearwater and absolutely love it.....Andf as a result, Paul has one too

[Giles]

Positive movement......

[Karol]

@Giles rejoice ...? Crossing fingers!

[Karol]

How are we doing here @Giles?
I keep my fingers crossed!

[Giles]

Bank Holiday Monday. I am on my way to Japan. Will find out in a week or so….

[Giles]

Paula says there is a big box for me in the office......

[Karol]

@Giles 🥳

[JDelage]

What do you fine people use to log dives? I've been using paper dive books, but I just upgraded & updated my computer to a Shearwater Teric, so maybe I should go digital. What do you think?

[Giles]

I am afraid that I don't bother. All the dive operations we go to give us a printed readout of the dives we have done at the end of the week. Paula puts that is a plastic wallet with all the others. When I got my Shearwater, I set the dive count to my personal number of dives, so now that keeps track of my dive count. I did download the dives from my Shearwater the first time I used it, but that novelty soon wore off But every dive I have done since I got it is stored in the memory, so I sort of have the last few 100.....