First 15 minutes on the Submariner bezel

[Zed Homme]

Originally Posted by joeychitwood

Modern dive computers are marvelous pieces of ingenuity and technology, but I always wear my Sub (and now my Sea Dweller) while diving and use the rotating bezel to time dives. There are a hundred ways a computer can malfunction, but the Sub is bullet-proof.

For many deeper recreational dives, one or two decompression stops of 15 minutes or less at different depths are mandatory. Since one is just hanging under the boat with nothing to do, I rotate the bezel and use it to time the stops.

Bingo! I've always been a believer that anything with a battery can and eventually will fail. I consider my mechanical dive watch to be an extra level of redundancy in my safety gear. When I'm on a dive where I take two deco stops, I usually keep the watch running through the first one after Ive noted where the minute hand was at the start of the stop, and then reset my bezel like you do for the final shallow deco stop. Doing it that way also preps me for measuring my surface interval minus however long that shallow stop was which for me is rarely longer than 5 minutes....