Dive Watches: Longest Water Submersion

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Originally Posted by rolexplorer2

Couldn't you have tried to retrieve it at 43m or wouldn't it have been worth it. As you say though, why bother if it cost you to find it, if its insured. 43m doesn't seem that deep.

Well we did try several searches over a period of two days at the time we were doing a few courses and filming on the reef.But its a big reef with plenty of coral life etc, like looking for a needle in a hay stack and over the edge of reef drops down to 1000m.I lost watch on surface I remember we surfaced just over the reef in open water and me and my buddy were swimming back to the zodiac pick up boat.Now I released most of the buckles on my BC to get it off to get into the zodiac.Next thing I knew was kind Egyptian deckhand tugging and pulling my BC off and before I releashed all the buckles,and was very lucky did not loose my video camera as well.The SD bracelet caught in one of the buckles and the bracelet pin or lug pin must have failed.But no bracelets are designed to have nearly 15 stone hanging from them.But thankfully the pin did fail, I lost a SD to the abyss, watch was replaced but body parts are not so easy..