Diving the SD50 / 43

[HiDive]

I dive pretty often here where I live on the Big Island. This week I wore the Rolex Seadweller 43. No worries though; I did not manage to overstess the depth capability of it.

[grimps]

Originally Posted by I did not manage to overstess the depth capability of it.

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I doubt any human could

[myporsche]

So cool to see the watch in it's natural habitat hope you had a nice dive. I was a mess when I took my sub diving for the first time.

[Rori]

Originally Posted by HiDive

I dive pretty often here where I live on the Big Island. This week I wore the Rolex Seadweller 43. No worries though; I did not manage to overstess the depth capability of it.

Enjoy this beautiful watch above and underwater.


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[campfire]

Thanks for sharing. Cool watch.

But also very cool Poseidon octopus.

[Singslinger]

Nice shots, thanks for sharing.

[HiDive]

Originally Posted by grimps

I doubt any human could

I guess you are right, since no human has been deeper than about 534 meters in the ocean. A Rolex Seadweller was there. I do not believe that Divers will ever go significantly deeper. In the mid 1970's while working as a Commercial Diver in Saturation I made a series of dives to just at 200 meters and I am glad that part of my career is over and long past.

[HiDive]

Originally Posted by campfire

Thanks for sharing. Cool watch.

But also very cool Poseidon octopus.

Poseidon has been my choice for many years and many dives. Like Rolex there are no competitors.

[campfire]

Originally Posted by HiDive

Poseidon has been my choice for many years and many dives. Like Rolex there are no competitors.

Agree 100%. Over 20 years with Poseidon as well.

Happy diving.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by HiDive

I dive pretty often here where I live on the Big Island. This week I wore the Rolex Seadweller 43. No worries though; I did not manage to overstess the depth capability of it.

Nice pictures and great to see a watch used for what it was designed for,but in the real world my own personal deepest dive just on breathing air and very very very carefully planned was a little over 75m, and can assure that was plenty deep enough for me and a 1990s Rolex SD.Most all recreational divers today would stick to a max depth of 40m or under breathing air.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 effects of the gases when changing over tanks containing the different gas mixtures.Now while breathing the high helium mix past around 60M 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.So today the dive ratings on most all Rolex watches are a bit of a joke as they will never be used by man or superman in water, perhaps they make them today because they can and little more but still great real diving working tool watches.

[jimcameron]

Excellent use of a terrific watch for it's intended purpose. One doesn't see this on TRF very often.

[Ranger67]

Great pictures.

[abozz]

Wonderful pictures !!! Thanks

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[ttman333]

Great shots thanks for sharing. It's been too long since I was in scuba gear.

Time to fill the bath, find the plastic fish and pretend ��

[Avs Fan]

Nice photos! Love the ocean!

[1William]

Nice picture. Cool watch.

[inadeje]

Those are great pictures OP. How refreshing to see a Rolex being used for which it was intended instead of a wrist shot with a cocktail...or at some nondescript venue.

[Raffles]

Great pics!

I got mine up to a dizzying depth of 20 ft in a Welsh lake last weekend....only another 3880ft to go to check it's worthy!

[HiDive]

Originally Posted by padi56

Nice pictures and great to see a watch used for what it was designed for,but in the real world my own personal deepest dive just on breathing air and very very very carefully planned was a little over 75m, and can assure that was plenty deep enough for me and a 1990s Rolex SD.Most all recreational divers today would stick to a max depth of 40m or under breathing air.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 effects of the gases when changing over tanks containing the different gas mixtures.Now while breathing the high helium mix past around 60M 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.So today the dive ratings on most all Rolex watches are a bit of a joke as they will never be used by man or superman in water, perhaps they make them today because they can and little more but still great real diving working tool watches.

Diving that deep on SCUBA is just plain stupid. I have been to about 165 feet on Scuba and that was probably pushing where I should have been but when you around 20 yo you are bulletproof. There is no amount of planning that could make SCUBA at 250 M much less 318 M safe. Sorry but this is a death wish. I have been there with years of commercial training a full saturation system and crew of four to six divers in the can, with topside support , experienced supervisors and medical personnel. With all of that I still did not feel very warm and fuzzy about doing it. The worst part is recreational divers see those things being done and start to feel like they are qualified to do them and they are not. I have seen a couple of guys die or get seriously injured doing safer things than that. 46 years later I am diving professionally again and supervising diving operations, but thank God it is mostly very shallow work.

[worldofoyster]

the watch was definitely be used for its purpose

[Director EDTF]

Thanks for sharing

[ltmgeller]

[HACKNSACK44]

Awesome pictures!

[Aircraftman]

Spent a week on the Kona Coast on an Aggressor liveaboard some years ago.

Excellent diving, hammerheads, tigers and mantas!!

About time I go back...

[eonflux]

Awesome!

Nice pics

[Oldfellow]

Fantastic photos, very interesting reading your stories in this thread too.
Take care.

[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by padi56

Nice pictures and great to see a watch used for what it was designed for,but in the real world my own personal deepest dive just on breathing air and very very very carefully planned was a little over 75m, and can assure that was plenty deep enough for me and a 1990s Rolex SD.Most all recreational divers today would stick to a max depth of 40m or under breathing air.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 effects of the gases when changing over tanks containing the different gas mixtures.Now while breathing the high helium mix past around 60M 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.So today the dive ratings on most all Rolex watches are a bit of a joke as they will never be used by man or superman in water, perhaps they make them today because they can and little more but still great real diving working tool watches.

Good post!

[thekman]

I have never dived but since I bought my SD43 I have the urge to take it diving someday. I just feel bad wearing it on dry land. Someday it will accompany me on my first dive! Cool pic.

[rcclarkie]

Great pics OP. Thanks for sharing your experience and for highlighting that it is indeed safe to use these watches for their intended purpose

[jeffgo888]

Originally Posted by HiDive

Diving that deep on SCUBA is just plain stupid. I have been to about 165 feet on Scuba and that was probably pushing where I should have been but when you around 20 yo you are bulletproof. There is no amount of planning that could make SCUBA at 250 M much less 318 M safe. Sorry but this is a death wish. I have been there with years of commercial training a full saturation system and crew of four to six divers in the can, with topside support , experienced supervisors and medical personnel. With all of that I still did not feel very warm and fuzzy about doing it. The worst part is recreational divers see those things being done and start to feel like they are qualified to do them and they are not. I have seen a couple of guys die or get seriously injured doing safer things than that. 46 years later I am diving professionally again and supervising diving operations, but thank God it is mostly very shallow work.

I agree with this . Years ago I took my scuba certification in springs in Florida. We went down to 30 feet or so maybe 40 and then when time to surface..,I think I rushed it and almost blacked out ....surface and divers saw bleeding from my nose and my ears were painful...
Saw a doctor and that was 20 years ago.to this day I go to 20 feet and my ears start to hurt


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