On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:35:28 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

Unfortunately, it is more or less a work-around. AFAIK, there are no
PLBs available (at least in the US) that are waterproof for any length
of time over about 1 meter deep. So......... what makes this thing
work is the optional "dive canister," which is good to about 540 feet,
IIRC.

Thus, only useful on the surface.....

There's a problem with the whole concept. The diver is most likely
already dead when an alarm or beacon is noticed. It doesn't take long
to get into trouble underwater.

Chuck Gould wrote in
ups.com:

shouldn't there be some sort of small EPIRB or other emergency
device


AT our marinas, you can find a diver by simply fanning out a little
pile of $20 bills like you'd hold playing cards.

It attracts them like flies!

Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:11:45 -0400, Wayne.B penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:35:28 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

Unfortunately, it is more or less a work-around. AFAIK, there are no
PLBs available (at least in the US) that are waterproof for any length
of time over about 1 meter deep. So......... what makes this thing
work is the optional "dive canister," which is good to about 540 feet,
IIRC.

Thus, only useful on the surface.....

There's a problem with the whole concept. The diver is most likely
already dead when an alarm or beacon is noticed. It doesn't take long
to get into trouble underwater.

These are designed for float-away or "separation from party"
crises.... if you have a major malfunction at depth, you are in deep
doo-doo...... even if the whole world knows where you are.....

--

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

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