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I made a wrist slate with a compass and BT from a piece of 6" PVC. I cut a hole in it for the Icolite compass to push up from the bottom. This way only the face of the compass is sticking up reducing the overall profile. It also has a Hyper Aquland watch strapped to it and a small pencil with surgical tubing holding it in place. I have been able to write on the slate with mittens. Normally I only write deco, heading or any other project related info on the slate prior to the dive. I have found that if I need to ditch my gear I can pull off the slate fast enough to prevent it from catching a strap. Also I only use this in ocean diving. Don't do the cave thing... I would be glad to take a picture and send it. Let me know.... Moriarity Sr. -----Original Message----- From: Sean M. Cary [mailto:SMCARY@MI*.CO*] Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 10:55 AM To: Kent Lind; techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Re: Redundant Equipment and Hogarthian I've been playing with the idea of a cut in 1/2 piece of 3" PVC, with the compass, BT and watch mounted on it, on my left wrist (rather then have all three separate). I've seen a few, and none have really fit exactly what I wanted in the layout. I have to get a piece of 3", and take the heat gun to it to make it conform to my arm better then the standard size/bend. I've seen a few arm slates, but don't have a source as far as manufacturer, so I haven't explored that route. All I do are ocean dives, so I also use the compass on every dive, having them all separate is kind of a pain in the ass. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Kent Lind <klind@al*.ne*> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Date: Friday, May 21, 1999 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Redundant Equipment and Hogarthian >"John R. Rose" wrote: >> >> Sure. No real dexterity is needed. >> The wetnotes go in the small pocket on the right leg. Nothing else >> is in that pocket, so you don't have to worry about loosing anything. >> If you want, you can start with the wetnotes opened so that >> the compass is on one side and a blank page on the other. >> The standard wetnotes have width and height dimensions similar to a VCR >> tape, so you should be able to hold onto that with heavy or mitts. >> You can always shove them back into your pocket if you need both hands. > >Obviously you are talking about cave diving here and not ocean >diving. For cave diving, I totally agree, there isn't much use for a >compass (at least that I can think of) except for surveying. If you >are navigating through cave by compass and do not have a guideline you >are in serious trouble. So keeping a compass inside your wet notes in >your pocket is totally appropriate. > >However, for ocean diving, the situation is totally different. I >constantly use a left wrist mounted compass to navigate open water, >especially when scootering over non-descript terrain (e.g. hunting >king crab). On these sorts of dives, I don't need to know my heading >down to the degree, I just need a glance to see what general direction >I'm going. I have yet to figure out how to pull a compass out of the >right leg pocket and read it while scootering. But I do know I can >read the compass on my left wrist without letting off the throttle. > >-Kent- >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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