Purchasing a dive watch

[agilis]

Dive Watch?

Dive Watch?

Use a cell phone. I can't think of a better use for them. Watches seem to be obsolete anyway. These days, everone checks the time while sending text messages or idly chatting while driving an SUV. Try taking your cellphone on your next dive. Only good things can result.

 

[ezcompany]

Tag Heur Aquaracer 300 M professional
ALL THE WAY

 

[rstark33]

Always been happy with my Citizen Aqualand Duplex. The battery just died after 3 years and about 150 dives.
I used to have the Promaster Hyper Aqualand, but it began to have errors after a couple years, also the acsension alarm was too sensitive. I lost it before I took it in for service (might have been stolen from my gear...)As an instructor teaching emergency ascents, it would drive me nuts.
As a beginner, I would get a wrist mount dive computer and a basic watch for back up.
A nice watch that does both depth and time would be after buying a dive computer, bc and regulator.
I strap the citizen on my BC and it serves as a depth and time backup to my dive computer. Redundancy is nice when you can do it.
But start with your own computer, get to know it and then buy the rest of your gear.

 

[gillies]

Done a fair share of diving over the last six years, and I'd have to agree with kaboom. An air integrated dive computer will do you far more good underwater than some bling on your wrist. Also get a quality regulator and breathing will feel more natural, and a good-fitting BC with integrated weights makes life much more comfortable when swimmin' with the fishes. My 2 cents.

 

[maxima k2]

I just found out the importance of quality gear. I just got back from N. Caicos. The wife and I went with a local dive shop on the island and it was very interesting. The first trip was fine for me but my wife had some equipment issues. First, on the boat she had a problem with her BC. It would not stop inflating! (makes me wonder). Switch out BC for a different one, and enter the water. Start the descent and her back up reg. sticks open at 10'- surface and switch out. Now I am getting a weird feeling about this dive. We finaly get down and she is having bouyancy problems. Which is weird because it is normally me that has more trouble than her. Ascend and the Bc she is wearing has the same issue that the first one had only much slower. Back on the boat we were kind of worried about this equipent, so the next dive we said take us some where shallow. The next dive was no deeper than 30' luckily. Now the wifes gear was fine and mine had "issues". My console hose decides to start leaking at connection to the console. I drop 800 psi and get it switched out. I catch up with with my wife and dive master and continue. The next day we dive again and not a single equipment issue. But I still wish that I had got my own gear for the trip. It was very fustrating to be screwing around with these problems when I could have been diving. So from here on out any and all life support or costly equipment will be through the local shops(authorized dealers). The only stuff I have now are the basics. Oh yah I bought the Citizen eco drive and it worked better than the other equipment.