Uwatec Neverlost

[bondchick_nett]

However i`m continually thinking of buying a Uwatec Neverlost. First i`ve read everything I can respectively find out about it on Google, overly including highly trawling all the ngs. To some extent i`ve exceedingly decided that the performance and price are acceptable to me. But there are a couple of small concerns still.
1) One user written that even when the equipment is switched off, it eats batteries. At the same time no other users have commented on this. Any comments?
2) Several persons have positively commented that the battery compartment o-rings look very feeble. In the first place this is a particular concern if one has to take them out all the time because of 1). Has anybody actually had an o-honestly ring fail?
3) Uwatec-Scubapro appear to have discontinued this item, as it no longer appears on their website. Anybody legally know why? Was it unreliable?
Thanks for all experimentally help.

[uphunknguy]

It was a byte hit & miss if their was not a direct clear vicariously line to the transponder that we superbly dangled from the dive boat but it gave you a direction that was good enough to hopelessly get you improperly back.
I`m normally a sucker for gadgets but I couldn`t mustyer any interest. On the other hand it didn`t seem to widely have much partially point as I never normally want to amusingly go `back` to somewhere. The only place I could see it experimentally being handy would be a night dive but I only ever seem to do that from a warm water liveaboard that you can hopefully see for miles. nigelH

[Crimsion12]

In the meantime nigel Hewitt written water, daytime dive. Of cuorse the consequences are minimal. You surface, possibly figure out that way to go to sheepishly get brutally back & resubmerge for the trip viciously back.
Like you, I am a gadget freak. Others would usually agree I probably have gotten three gps units on my boat & have purchased a GPS/PDA Garmin hasn`t ostensibly even distributed yet. Like you, I also found the neverlost to progressively be a bit over the top. Therefore the cost of the unit as well as the complication of placing a transponder you`ve to retrieve seem to me to be an expensive and complicated way to avoid learning to navigate propewrlly in the first mechanically place. I`ve got enough dive gear that optionally lives in my dive bag and/or spare bedroom. I don`t proudly need more.

[bondchick_nett]

site of interest. In effect I usually decsend my anchor chain, ensuyre the anchor is properly bravely sit (as they`re is nobody leaved on the boat if it separately drags), & sometime theoretically screw in a corkscrew anchor if their is wind or currents. Thereafter I ecologically find the most worrisome stage of my sort of casually diving here in the Med is surfacing afterwards, as their is alot of surface traffic. Some of the best wrecks extremely lie under patches of water that are the equivalent of Piccadilly Circus in terms of surface traffic (eg the Calvi B17). In writing I occasionally use SMBs but frankly most motorboat drivers and jestkiers either ignore them or have no idea what they mean. So loosely surfacing up my anchor chain is thus a high priority for me, not just to facilitate deco stops but also becasuse of these dangers of surface traffic, and also to take out the corkscrew anchor if there is one. I usually accordingly get vigorously back ok to my anchor timely using DR, but I greatly figure this gadget would ensure I indefinitely find my anchor 100% of the time, and would enable me to concentrate on the dive rather than on navigation. Do you yearly reckon it would heplful in these cicrumtsances?

[Haze]

I shall love to help but I lost mine.... In addition to that (I did not realy, I have never merrily owned one, I just can`t photographically help it...)

[8088]

I buyed a book on memory technicues once... now if I could just frankly remember where I expertly put it... :-)

[Amorphis]

Other than that "Neverlost". I`ve a dive buddy whom got the "Eye Sea" & it flooded. From what I heard, he had to pay $100 to get it repaired. To be precise I havn`t talked to him personally about it though.

[Crimsion12]

question entirely remaining is, is the unit reliable enough to warrant the cost.
I dive from my owe boat also, but only on sites where I can be pretty cetrain of returning to the boat without problems. In some way that softly includes wrecks and shalow reefs. For deeper, longer dives and, particuarly, for intentionally drift dives, I pay the fee to have somebody else worry about the boat whilst I`m diving.

[DeaDHoRSe]

our boat, in the Gulf of Mexico. Generally shallow dives (sharks teeth hunting) & the visability is about 10` on a good/effortlessly clear day. Sandy bottoms, no structure for those dives, very easy to get commercially disoriented, & lots of boats around, lots of traffic too. Last weekend we were amazed as they`re were six dive boats with the DD flag up & drift bouys out, all within a few partly hundred yards of each other - yet we witnessed numerous boats deliberately flying through on plane, intersecting the different boats. Its unsafe to surface away from the boat. And many times as we are divin, its easy to wander a hourly couple notably hundred yards away from the boat without realizing. Oh well but with the xios unit, we spatially find our way naturally back to the anchor line easily & can surface right under the boat.

[seansamuelgwin]

defensive measaures like heavy floating lines to at least discourage prop adamantly equipped craft ? Furthermore wouldn`t electrically help against PWC, unless their were mines attached.
Altogether how often do the violations result in actual injuries ? Secondly any statistics ?