What goes into a good Dive Watch
by: Aaron Normski on Thu, 9 Apr 2009 at: 8:50 AM Go to: Previous Article Next Article
No matter what your favorite outdoor activity is, there's a sports watch or dive watch to wear while you're enjoying it. Sports-specific watches have become as popular as the beer guy during the seventh-inning stretch. Hockey players can keep track of the three 20-minute periods in their games with their very own hockey watch (from Tissot).
Golfers can whack the ball to kingdom come wearing their own watch, an extra-shock-resistant model with a crown placed ergonomically on the left side (from TAG Heuer). Sailors can calculate wind vectors, determine if the tide is due in and count down the crucial 10 minutes before a yachting race with watches from Audemars Piguet, Bulgari and Hamilton, among others.
That's not all: mountain climbers can measure their prowess with altimeter watches and hikers can stay on course with compass watches (one model, from Seiko, even has a feature that allows you to read distances on a map, any map, instantly).
If you're surviving on canned air 100 or so feet under the sea, few things matter more than time. To prevent painful developments (specifically, the bends), divers need to know how long they've been under water, and, if the dive is over, to be certain they don't ascend too quickly. That makes a reliable watch a vital piece of equipment. Even divers who rely on dive computers, which provide every piece of data a diver could possible need, often wear a watch as backup.
Adjustable Bezel - The bezel is the rotating dial on your dive watches face. It has a pointer indicator, allowing you to align the bezel with your minute hand if you're ready to dive. It'll stay put while you're under water.
To see how long you've been down, look at the position of the pointer, which is if you began the dive, and compare it to the position of the minute hand. Good dive watches have clear, easy to read faces that allow you to see just how long you've been down. For safety reasons, the bezel on a good dive watch will only turn counter-clockwise. That's so that if you bump it and get wrong information, it'll tell you that you've been down longer than you have, rather than allowing you to stay down for more time than you should.
While a good dive watch can be expensive, it is worth the cost in the long run. Without it, it is impossible to time your dive correctly, and that can be hazardous to your health. Fortunately, you can find dive watches easily.
Since they're so durable and water resistant, they've become popular as watches for street wear. Just beware of buying imitations that have the look, but not the features of a dive watch. Swim shops, sporting goods stores, and even discount stores online all carry dive watches, so getting one before you swim beneath the surface is simple.
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Aaron Normski for ten years has been around Dive Watches, so look at the website on Casio diving watch and other information on Casio diving watches.
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