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I just new that somebody would jump at the chance at criticising this. The pingers i have used (commercial diver units) have worked great. If this pinger works as good it´s a good navigational aid. I still intend to plan my dive and deco as if i was going to miss the upline. If i miss the line it´s not a big deal because i have planned for this. I did not want a lecture on how to conduct a wreck dive i just wanted to know if this product works. I often use a scooter when diving and sometimes i leave the wreck and go for artefact hunts, this is where the pinger comes to use. I never lay reel on a wreck unless penetrating, it´s just to tedious and only a beginner does unless you are diving in horrible vis or badly fucked up wrecks. When leaving the wreck with no pinger i use a compass. Don´t try to convice me to bother laying reel. The pinger is just a navigational aid. Other uses for it is measuring distances,something that can be very useful if you are trying to identify a newly discovered wreck. In case i don't find the accent line again i use a spool and liftbag as emergency accent line. I have all the deco gases i need for the deco with me. On really deep dives where deco gases are stationed on the line i lay reel if necessary. Now does anyone know if this product works or not? -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: ajmarve@ba*.ne* [mailto:ajmarve@ba*.ne*] Skickat: den 13 februari 2000 23:06 Till: Ingemar Lundgren Kopia: Aquanaut Mail Ämne: Re: NeverLost Ingemar, I dont have any idea about the particular unit you mention, other than Ive seen the ads for what three years now, and yet to see the product. One of the guys out here had the older style of these, with the leds that blinked, he always seemed to get lost anyways. Also he needed to hang it at a certain height, which usually meant he had to leave it tied off to the anchor or he had an inner tube with a weight and he would set up like a lobster pot marker, only it didnt break the surface, and he carried that contraption in a huge bug bag. I never did figure out what he was going to do if the anchor pulled while he was tied into it, and he wasnt too clear on that either. Do you follow the signal aimlessly off the wreck into the sand?? then what happens when they pull the hook up?? do the deck monkeys then switch off your unit?? then what?? and why waste time and gas when you could have just run a line in the first place, or just planned the dive to do your ascent/exit/deco from the most distant/dig/penetration point,as long as your tied in anyways?? < this leads into what reel do you use for an upline, and then you get the jersey upline guys because thats the "fastest" way to rig an upline in an emergency< which you create by wasting gas searching for the magic beeping box >, and its clear by then youve bought the express train to idiotland, metaphorically speaking, of course, because once you swim off the wrek, what do you tie into?> Plus, my line reel never needs batteries, doesnt flood, and its not so expensive im worried about losing it. anyways, if you get it to work, let us know. regards, Al Marvelli Ingemar Lundgren wrote: > I just received the new Scubapro catalogue and i found a very interesting > product made by Uwatech. It´s called NeverLost and is a uw/Pinger. You > attach a transmitter to the accent line and you carry a diver unit. The > diver unit will give you range info and bearing. I have used pingers before > and they are really useful for low vis wreck diving or any other application > where it is hard to find the acentline. Pingers used to be very expensive > but the one from uwatech has a reasonable price. Have anyone used this > device? Does it work as good as advertised? How good does the bearing > system work? > Both the transmitter unit and the diver unit is pressure tested to 80m. > > -- > 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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