Whats the deepest you've taken your watch on dive??

[calj_whyte]

Just curious. Guessing this will mostly apply to Submariner users - I'm a self confessed Planet Ocean desk-diver myself. Anyone had their watch sub 100m? Perform flawlessly? (Learning to scuba has always been on my bucket list )

[Kneecough]

My swimming pool... So, 5-6ft.

[datejust24]

about 20 ft. deep off the coast of Montego Bay Jamaica...It was a beautiful site to see...

[jjnd08]

Originally Posted by Kneecough

My swimming pool... So, 5-6ft.

This.

[teqp]

Originally Posted by calj_whyte

Just curious. Guessing this will mostly apply to Submariner users - I'm a self confessed Planet Ocean desk-diver myself. Anyone had their watch sub 100m? Perform flawlessly? (Learning to scuba has always been on my bucket list )

Just because you get certified to scuba, I sure hope you don't plan on taking your sub to 100m without extra scuba training. At that depth, trimix is needed and deco stops along the way back up. With that said, I know there are some folks here who are into the technical side of diving.

Scuba diving is fun, hope you get to check if off your bucket list.

As for me, I have been about 30m with mine and it worked fine.

[NKflyer]

When I had my first Sub, I used to do alot of technical diving. My personal deepest was 316 feet on trimix wearing that watch. After about fourteen years of ownership, it finally stopped working and I sent to RSC New York. They said that there was some moisture in the watch and in addition to the movement service, I wound up getting a new dial and hands. This was before I knew better about regular service intervals and pressure testing!

[Tools]

Originally Posted by calj_whyte

Just curious. Guessing this will mostly apply to Submariner users - I'm a self confessed Planet Ocean desk-diver myself. Anyone had their watch sub 100m? Perform flawlessly? (Learning to scuba has always been on my bucket list )

Anything deeper than 60 feet is considered a "deep dive" and to go 60 meters requires special training, certification, and air..

So, it's highly unlikely that many here have gone 100 meters who aren't professional or technical divers.

Pretty sure that you will give out way before your Rolex does..

[tkerrmd]

20 feet

[masterserg]

100m is serious (and dangerous) depth. Deepest I have been is about 32 and that was enough for me. My Explorer II has been to about 10m with no problems.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by calj_whyte

Just curious. Guessing this will mostly apply to Submariner users - I'm a self confessed Planet Ocean desk-diver myself. Anyone had their watch sub 100m? Perform flawlessly? (Learning to scuba has always been on my bucket list )

Well I would doubt today if 95% of all dive type watches ever see water other than perhaps a dip in the pool or shower,reading the many posts on TRF some are afraid to even get them wet.So IMHO today all this depth rating although a technical achievement is little more that pure marketing mine is bigger that yours etc, and yes today many belong to mine is bigger than yours brigade.My deepest dive and very very very carefully planned was a little over 100m and can assure that was plenty deep enough for me and SD.If I remember the deepest recorded dive just on scuba gear was in the Red Sea quite a few years back now ,by a guy called Nuno Gomes total depth was just over 318m perhaps now broken.


Now it only took him about 20/50 minutes to reach that depth,but because of breathing different gasses at that depth and pressure.It then took him little over 12 hours with all the safety stops to finally return to the surface safe, and without any form of decompression treatment.Now at these extreme depths,there are several diving related problems to overcome nitrogen narcosis, decompression sickness, oxygen toxicity,sheer dehydration and the different affects of the gases when changing over tanks containing the different gas mixtures.Now while breathing the high helium mix the gas wants to leave the blood while the nitrogen wants to rush in.

Now this dive would have not been possible without a huge back up and very careful planning. Gomes is in a very small group of guys that have gone over 250m with just scuba gear.Plain fact there have been more guys to go to the moon,that have got past 250m underwater just on scuba. But most recreational divers today stick to around 30m- 40m max depth on just air.Some more technical recreational divers would go to perhaps 120m but for this type of diving you must be very experienced with plenty of planing and backup.So today the dive ratings on watches are a bit of a joke as they will never be used by man or superman, perhaps they make them today because they can and little more.
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[mjclark32]

15-20 feet

[breitlings]

about 30 feet skin diving. one of my pools is deeper than those listed at 12 feet.

but to assume water resistance is absolute on omega is false cut it in a third for dynamic pressure. same goes for assuming water resistance is the equivalent to steam resistance. you can boil a rolex but if you steam it you're going to get ingress.

[breitlings]

Originally Posted by NKflyer

When I had my first Sub, I used to do alot of technical diving. My personal deepest was 316 feet on trimix wearing that watch. After about fourteen years of ownership, it finally stopped working and I sent to RSC New York. They said that there was some moisture in the watch and in addition to the movement service, I wound up getting a new dial and hands. This was before I knew better about regular service intervals and pressure testing!

interesting.

[jthop]

Same here. I'd say probably 20ft max while snorkeling. Sub has served me well!

[MovieGuy]

2 feet in a hot tub!

[Evad3]

15 cm deep in the sink

[Chewbacca]

Originally Posted by calj_whyte

Just curious. Guessing this will mostly apply to Submariner users - I'm a self confessed Planet Ocean desk-diver myself. Anyone had their watch sub 100m? Perform flawlessly? (Learning to scuba has always been on my bucket list )

14.23ft

[Jake B]

20 metres is the limit of my comfort zone. I suffered quite a few ear infections as a kid & I have trouble with the pressure. I also start to feel quite claustophobic around 20m. I'm best suited to reefs & I like the Islands in the South China Sea around Hainan. For the record...20m is pretty far under! At depths any greater you need to pay serious attention to how long you remain at depth and how fast you resurface in relation to time spent at depth.

[andromeda160]

110ft down blue gato in FL, but I was wearing some cheapo dive watch I found at a thrift shop

[ChicagoPhil]

[nocrown]

as deep as my faucet's water could accumulate across the surface ::: i'm hydrophobic, yet own a diving watch, go figure. ..

[Keith1]

165 feet in Chuuk (Truk Lagoon) on the WWII wreck San Francisco Maru. I was wearing my DSSD!

[Glidelock]

110 Ft. at Sand Falls in Cabo San Lucas with my A serial Sub Date!

[Keith1]

Originally Posted by Glidelock

110 Ft. at Sand Falls in Cabo San Lucas with my A serial Sub Date!

What a great dive! There used to be a lot of slipper lobsters around there.

[Kobin]

Spa, 2 feet. Scary shit.

[IT Nerd]

Originally Posted by Kobin

Spa, 2 feet. Scary shit.

[Rockrolex]

About 3 ft. while swimming in the ocean at Boca Raton. I usually wear my all black Y series GMT-II when doing that.

[bbressler]

Went around 80 feet on Great Barrier Reef with an Orient Mako. Previously had been on dives a bit deeper than that, but had only used my dive computer.

[Micha]

40m with my triple 6 SD off the coast of Spain. However, most of my dives were not below 10 - 15m...everything starts turning into blue-grey

[SC11]

You mean to tell me my watch is waterproof????