Saturday, November 29, 2008

Scooter part 2

So tried the scooter out the other day.
Me and Jim went on short dive to test and keep current.
It worked on the surface pretty nicely, a bit slow but for intents and purposes, great.
About 30 million open water classes at Cove 2 stirred up the viz to a nice 1-3 feet, which meant when we dropped down Jim got ahead of me while I goofed around with the scooter at 5-10 feet depth. Finally shut down the scooter and decided to go catch Jim. Catching up with him around 35 feet I attempted to show off my new scooter, which no longer worked. No matter how many times I pressed the go button, it did not go.
We left it at 53 feet and continued on the dive. Got down to mid eighties, nothing too interesting or exciting but a decent dive after long dry spell. At our safety stop Jim took a nice video of me examining (testing?) the scooter.
Back on dry ground i figured the battery must've died. It still beeped and after sitting for a few minutes it would slowly spin. Jim got his typical enjoyment out of lambasting me for not charging it before the dive and that was that.
Until several hours later when i took another look at it and it runs perfect. Maybe it just isn't waterproof.
watch the video

Monday, November 10, 2008

Update


Due to popular demand, the blogs getting updated. A friend of mine and jimmys blew 5k on an awesome high powered scuba scooter. As it happens i found a company in china that had some for sale for under $100. Only good to 30 meters and not necesarily as cool looking as Judds, but might be just the ticket to have some fun and test the waters before jumping on the big scooter wagon. Will update after next dive.