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Originally posted by Joeaksa
Guy I fly with has one of those new fangled fancy computers that double as a watch. He went diving on Saturday morning, about 70 feet down off of San Diego. We flew on Monday and the bloody thing was still showing that he was not legal to fly! Went into the books and he was fine, so there is a glitch to the computer. The new fangled things may be fancy but the old charts may be more accurate at times.
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Joe, I like my old Princeton bottom timer. It does one thing and one thing only. It starts when I get to 10' and shuts off when I get back to 10'. No batteries or LCD screens. I am going to get a computer, but I will always keep the bottom timer strapped to my console. I'm just used to looking at it.
It looks like this:
I actually broke one recently by overwinding and ended up getting another one off eBay for $20.