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What’s best is what’s best for you and your diving, not the other 99 opinions you are going to get. You are new to diving, are you going to ever use EAN/nitrox? Mixed gases? If you wear glasses can you read that Suunto underwater? Consol or wrist, because I’m carring a camera one computer is on my left wrist and it yells at me everytime I reach up to dump. Are you up to changing the battery or taking it to the shop?
Understand that there are only a few companies making dive computers, Suunto, Paligic which is Oceanic are two of them, most of the others are just private lables of them.
If you get serious about diving you’ll probably wear two computers, and yes I’ve had both fail on the same dive :( One of them needs to allow you to adjust it’s calculations from conservative (safer) to risky so the two will match so you don’t need to watch them argue over weather it’s time to go up or you have a few more minutes of bottom time, safety stops and SI. Once they start arguing it goes on for the rest of the dive trip!
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Definitely get the one it suits you. I bought the Aeris Elite T3 and it is pretty simple to use and it does everything I need it to do for the moment. As I progress and want to do some technical diving I will use it as my back up. I’m already eyeing up a few replacements already......
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You can turn an IPhone into a dive computer now.8)
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i went for lower cost on mine I have the suunto zoop not a bad price and it tells me everything i need to know depth and bottom time, water temperature and a few other things
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Kristina, I went through that road before before I bought my dive computer, everyone tells you about their actual experience that their computer is the best which brought me to recluse that almost all sports of computers are good enough. And by the way, what do you mean by a good dive computer? What makes a dice computer good our bad, to me a good dive computer is easy to use, easy to read underwater with big digits, conservative; which prefers to be on the safe side when calculation the nitrogen saturation in your body, and finally, user friendly for operation and battery change. I found all those in Cressi Leonardo., but the only shortage is that it is not air integrated, that means, you cannot hook it to your scuba tank through a pressure sensor. Note there are others like the sunnto D9 for instance is much more expensive but had many other options that you don’t need as a recreational dive. For instance you can hook it to 4 air tanks to monitor you’re buddies or students if you were an instructor.
I’m satisfied with my cressi Leonardo and when the battery dies, I’m gonna change it my self using a coin.
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From LatitudeAdjustment: What’s best is what’s best for you and your diving, not the other 99 opinions you are going to get. You are new to diving, are you going to ever use EAN/nitrox? Mixed gases? If you wear glasses can you read that Suunto underwater? Consol or wrist, because I’m carring a camera one computer is on my left wrist and it yells at me everytime I reach up to dump. Are you up to changing the battery or taking it to the shop? Understand that there are only a few companies making dive computers, Suunto, Pa... Thanks for the info and advice. I guess I have to choose according my dives that I’m planning to do, and choose a computer that I feel would be best suited to my dives. So I realized there isn’t really a "good" dive computer. That’s a good start as to what I will plan to get. Thanks a lot LatitudeAdjustment!
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From ehabqiblawi: Kristina, I went through that road before before I bought my dive computer, everyone tells you about their actual experience that their computer is the best which brought me to recluse that almost all sports of computers are good enough. And by the way, what do you mean by a good dive computer? What makes a dice computer good our bad, to me a good dive computer is easy to use, easy to read underwater with big digits, conservative; which prefers to be on the safe side when calculation the nitroge...
I guess everybody goes through this process of choosing a computer too. I was actually looking at that Cressi Leonardo but I wasn’t sure. But I do have my eyes on it, as it is simple, tells you stuff you need to know, and not as pricey. I was just wondering if the Cressi Leonardo is user friendly though.
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It is great, I have it, and I’m ok with it
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I think Latitude sums it up perfectly.The only thing I would add is that, for a small difference in price you can go from an "AIR" computer to a "Nitrox" computer.
Even in a basic computer if you decide to dive using nitrox you will not have to upgrade you computer. I my opinion this also goes for your regulators should you purchase them. Personally I like the software that comes with the Uwatec/ScubaPro computers. Also many of the ScubaPo computer have an infrared wireless interface to download your dive info to your computer. This saves you from the $100.00 plus other vendors will charge you for the $5.00 serial cable interface for their computers.
Another thought, if you are buying all your own gear I would say spend the big money on your regs. You will likely have them long then any other piece of equipment, and I believe they will make the biggest difference in your diving pleasure. There’s nothing worse then feeling like yo are sucking air through a straw.
http://www.scubapro.com/en-US/USA/instruments/computers.aspx
http://www.leisurepro.com/Prod/CategoryID_1985/Context_954/Sort_Relevance/DescSort_0/Filter_brand%3dUwatec/Page_1/UTCA2GW.html
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Thanks! The first thing I’m gonna buy is a dive computer, then the regulator, But I gott a do some research first about the maintenance and stuff of that one. I’m gonna check out that Uwatec/ Scubapro computers you suggested. I’m a novice and I do wanna make sure that even if I do advance, that computer’s still gonna be with me until it dies.
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I have used a couple of hose end computers and then switched out to the hose less. I did this not because it was hose less as much, but it was always where I could see it and it tracked more than one gas or tank. You still need to have pressure gauges on all your tanks. The first one was an Eris Epic. A very good sport diving computer with a small footprint that does multiple tanks.gas (3), allowing a gas switch on the dive. It always worked without a hitch, just don’t push your bottom times. This can be had for about $500.00, less if used.
I have a Uwatec Galileo Sol and am very happy with it too. Don’t expect to use very many computers like the Epic for backup if you get into tech. They don’t do well with deep stop or post deco. I would steer clear of Suunto, since on many occasions when I have been diving with people who had them,(almost shoulder to shoulder) have found them locked out or barking to go to the boat because they had not adjusted for their dive plan. Many of my computers had/have an adjustable conservation factor, but Suunto is very tight.
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Whoops... typo. I meant Aeris Epic. Oceanic Atom is the same.
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Galileo del Sol! I’ve had mine since 2008. Luv it. It does everything for me. I even use a heart monitor that has really help me control my breathing. I can’t imagine using anything else! If you do a deep dive it automatically sets up your multiple safety stops.... Never had any problems with it.
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I’ve been looking at Mares Icon HD and Mares Nemo Wide Wrist Computer but still haven’t made up my mind... I like the 300 free diving/wrecks maps that you can download on the Icon HD - haven’t seen this feature on any other computer and it got some pretty good reviews. However, it’s not cheap.
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I’m looking at the Cressi Leonardo. Cause its cheap and I heard really good reviews. Still doing research.
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Well thanks yall help me out great job on computers info.
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