Expert Diver Reveals the Truth About Dive Watches | Watchfinder & Co.
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- We're talking to expert underwater explorer, cave diver, freediver, skydiver, climber and all round outdoorsman, Andy Torbet! Let's hear his take on dive watches and see if an expert diver and watch enthusiast can share some opinions. Don't forget to let us know what you thought in the comments, and subscribe if you want to see more.
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Last month I wore my Omega Seamaster 300 on a Greek beach.
As I dog paddled 20 meters from shore, I looked at my wet watch and knew my $6,000 had been well spent.
Even the seagulls squawked their approval at my delusion.
With a Planet Ocean you could have paddled 30 meters away from shore 😄
A Citizen Promaster for 200 Bucks does the same....so apparently you wasted $5800 ;D
I‘m a German explosive ordnance disposal squad leader, high altitude climber, freerider and skydiver and would never go near such a fkn cave 😂 My deepest respect man!
I see what you did there.
Former submarine officer (US fast attack boat) and open ocean diver...same sentiments. Yikes, the mere thought of cave diving scares the crap out of me. I bet that guy can barely surface with those balls of steel.
@@jb678901 Yea man, incredible.. everything with a cave in it is just bonkers.. you saw the one guy who got stuck head down while caving? Died that way and the body is still down there, bc they can‘t get it out. WHY GOING THERE??!
100% agreed. I'm ex-British Armed forces, mountaineer, skydiver, rock climber, and caver, but there is no chance in the world that I'd dive in a cave! Even with a rebreather which gives a significantly larger air supply than a normal scuba system, I still wouldn't do it. Even in relatively dry caves, I'm not a huge fan of the tight squeezes, the idea of doing that under water is terrifying!
Great video! Would be nice to make it a series where you invite professionals to talk about their profession and the watches they use (pilot, explorer, soldier, mountain climber, racer etc...)
I feel like most people in that category would say “g-shock”
If you ever need a rep for “couch potato” or “desk diver” just call me!
@@tsuihintree Yeah... Either that or it will just be a roster of professionals who have brand sponsorships. :D
@@BatCountryAdventures I USED TO GO DIVING I would take off my Rolex Submariner and put on a dive watch about 3" x 4" - digital made of rubber with brass pins that could detect my touch.
Are dive watches useful for diving?
Short answer: NO!
Reason: Diving is equip intensive, and equipment should be redundant (especially cave diving). Watches tell time; dive computers tell time, depth, dive profile, dive history, temperature, etc (essential information).
I've been a diver for 27 years, commercial diver for 16 years, total of over 15000 dives.
Yet to see the video, but I hope the treasure they're gonna talk about is Invicta
😂
Unfortunately no mention of the Nectar of the Gods that is known by Mankind as 'Invicta'.. And that Cave Diver DARES to class Himself as a Pro-Diver... whilst Wearing Panerai?.. unfortunately with that state of mind "Grand Diver" status will stay forever out of reach...
Those divers didn’t make it back
They are talkng about Parnis Marina Militare.
And Bobs your uncle!
Yep, I'd like to see more in-depth professional watch users discussing their trades:
Polo players - do they all wear Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso?
Lawyers - which chronograph to bill by the minute?
F1 drivers - is Richard Mille more useful than Casio?
Hip Hop "artists" - was it necessary to ice out this Patek ?
Tiktokers - who will be the first to dare other brands than Rolex and AP ?
Dentists - was your career choice based on healing people or purchasing a Daytona ?
Soccer Player - How much is Hublot paying you to ashame youself ?
Funny thing is Casio used to sponsor F1 team, and no their F1 Limited watches were not digital 🤣🤣🤣 (EQB-1200AT and EFS-S580AT)
@@NickABQQm Didn't know that.
Most of my dive watches are iso certified, some are capable of more than the standard 200/300 meters.
My bathtub is deep and I need the best equipment. 👌
Great video lads.
This was very good but strange video. On one hand, the soothing music and Andy's voice describing his love of cave diving. On the other hand, you have Tom showing cave diving and spelunking videos, making my claustrophobia and anxiety go off the charts.
I “would like to see more of this, this kind of stuff, the exploration, the use of watches where they’re supposed to be used” please 🙂
I love that his microphone was in a cave
This was a bloody brilliant video. I’d love to see this become a series with other adventuring types and which tool watches they wear!
A raindrop hit my new Superocean last Friday on my way to the pub. I turned around and went home and swapped it for my Citizen promaster ecodrive before starting my rainy adventure back to the pub. Better to be safe than sorry I say..
That watch needs a good rain/waterfall/anything which contains water so you can feel comfortable wearing it everywhere.
It’s a beautiful watch, wear it with pleasure!
Stephen, after hearing the cave diving expert, now we know that next time it rains you should take *two* water resistant watches, for redundancy, of course
I would love to see some more of the tool dive watches. The ones really designed for diving.
Citizen and seiko comes to mind specially citizen their eco drive watches are great
Great video!
What cool extreme cave exploration experience shared by a really experienced person.
However, long duration cave exploration is not typical diving.
No current watches are designed for modern recreational open water diving.
A dive watch is only useful for a square dive profile when you know the dive table, that is designed for 1-2 dives a day. If you are doing multiple dives with non-square profiles, a dive watch would be pretty useless.
I used to use a dive computer about the size of a dive watch as a backup for my main dive computer on the other wrist, but it really is not very practical except to confirm that your main dive computer has not gone insane.
BTW I was lucky enough to spend a whole week with the guy that did the research to produce the original UK navy dive tables as my dive buddy and companion. He had many great experiences he shared.
@@TomJones-tx7pb There are a few watches that are designed for modern recreational open water diving. for example the: SUUNTO D5. but a dive watch is only useless beside your diving computer. By the way. you could use your dive watch for non square dive profiles and multiple dives a day if it has a depth gauge and you plan the dives beforehand and do the calculations. its just not practical.
@@TomJones-tx7pb Citizen makes an ISO diver with the recreational dive table on the watchstrap
Are dive watches useful for diving?
Short answer: NO!
Reason: Diving is equip intensive, and equipment should be redundant (especially cave diving). Watches tell time; dive computers tell time, depth, dive profile, dive history, temperature, etc (essential information).
I've been a diver for 27 years, commercial diver for 16 years, total of over 15000 dives.
Wow, Kudos to the gentleman. I got claustrophobic anxiety just from watching that exceptional footage.
This was fantastic! I love interviews with folks who are really putting themselves out there, and using their gear the way it was intended.
I will now associate Panerai with panic attacks. Thanks Watchfinder!
Your best video. Someone who uses a dive watch in these incredibly taxing scenarios puts it into a different perspective. More of this please
This was one of the most interesting interviews I have viewed. Thank you:)!!
Excellent video chaps. Really enjoyed this.
Please keep this type of thing going.
Pilots, racing drivers, astronauts there’s so much that could be looked into.
Well done guys
Really enjoyed this and have always been a fan of when you go long form. I’d like to see similar videos in the future
Wow, what a fascinating episode! Thank you. Nice to see a dive watch being used for that purpose and love that Tom asked about treasure 😂
I have recently had my desk diving watch back from periodical service and re- adjustment. Together with replacement of all gaskets and the test for 30bar water resistance, although it will never experience even a splash of any water. 🙂
And there is me who never serviced his promaster, but diving with it time to time.
Have you found the cave that Michael Bublé lives in between Christmas’s?
Great episode! Already looking forward to the next part!
Congrats on 800K subscribers!
Thank you for this video, it has been very fascinating to hear Andy's experiences of his adventurous journeys. It would be great to have him again on the show to talk about his watches and/ or to share more of his stories and amazing footages,
A fantastic episode, really interesting.
I’d love to see more like this.
Keep it up chaps.
I had always thought of cave diving as an insane sport, way more so than parachuting, flex wing flying and BASE jumping. This has not changed that view but has instilled in me the courage, professionalism and dedication required to make it appealing and survivable. I have a feeling about the watches that would be good for the sport which would not include £5000 Panerais, but more like $800 CWC and Seikos, but each to their own. Great video nevertheless.
Great video it shows watches in their real enviroment something mine will never get a chance of seeing. Its nice to hear from a real diver too.
This is the best episode and podcast episode in a long time, great work!! From someone who loves dive watches this is amazing
Fascinating, would love to see more of this 👍
One of the best long form episodes yet! Most of us watch collectors who pretend to live the lives of experts such as this by wearing watches he would wear, gives a lot of meaning to this hobby.
I think I need an exp2 now…
Man this was thoroughly captivating. Great, great content. I recently got into the Rolex Explorer ii because of this newly found curiosity about spelunking. I really want more of this kind of content. Also great to get visuals. Thanks boys.
Utterly spellbound for the whole video. I’ve been underwater once in a cave. That was a very rewarding experience, but I chose not to repeat it. Let’s have more of this please.
Very interesting video full of perspective and insight into a world most watch enthusiasts will never put their pieces though!
I work in the maritime sector; a navigator by trade and I've just passed my master's ticket. I wear a Citizen Skyhawk at work. The multi time zone display, UTC dial (all navigation is planned in UTC) and slide rule (speed, distance, time calculations) are all very useful tools for my job, as per the watches original design brief for the air environment.
Great video! Would love to see more of this!
Amazing! Thank you for these insights into cave divining. Great content and topic.
Brilliant. Please do more!
Fascinating discussion, and great insights from a true pro. However I question whether any mechanical watch is truly a good choice over a g-shock, in tight rocky caves. A g-shock's battery will last the duration of any dive...
FACINATING!!! Thank you for sharing!
Great video guys!! 👍🏼👍🏼
200 meters is good enough to dive into a bag of chips.
Very interesting video, would love to hear more about it, thanks.
Amazing content! Thanks!
Brilliant video, well done guys!
Loved this content! Andy is a fascinating guy. Unfortunately had to come here after the 'We Have To Change Because Of Rolex' video as otherwise it didn't show in my feed.
I think it great to see watches 'in their element' so to speak, focus more on their use opposed to seeing them just as luxury items. Think of all the divers, sailors, explorers wearing Rolex (yes naming that brand again...) because they were simple reliable watches.
I have been working for several years in the dive business, albeit in warm clear waters in Asia and the Caribbean. Cave diving for sure is another ball game, but keen to try it out one day. Probably starting with some cenotes in Mexico, clear water and a big bigger inside! Also got started with some hours on a rebreather, that really is fun and added a new dimension to my diving. In all my diving I always took my Sea Dweller 16600 (and again that brand...) with me, mainly for fun, but also as back-up timer in case it was needed (never). And it is easy to have the time quickly available as dive boats usually run a tight schedule so you need to know when you need to have your divers back on the boat. It has seen about 1200 dives or so, it is pretty banged up but that is the way it should be! Think I even dived with it once with the crown unscrewed by accident and all the triplock crown saved it that day! Looking at the watch now it reminds me of all the cool places it accompanied me to - a great memory bank.
Keep up the great content!
Loved it. Mesmerising. Word for word. Felt that breathtaking experience just by watching this amazing video sitting comfortably on my sofa here in Melbourne. Lesson: when faced with very little options, in some cases literally none, it's always best to take a moment to take a few steps back and relax your mind to drain it off all panic attacks and negative thoughts to work out your solution with a clear conscious. Got it. Thanks guys. Have already shared it with a few other people.
Awesome video! Love the "watches out in the wild" concept.
Very interesting! I would never ever ever ever ever cave dive, but I'm glad someone does! I'm surprised the talk wasn't more focused around watches. Also, please do like two more hours of this. Thanks! Great vid.
What an informative video! Also an important vindication for mechanical dive watches (more specifically the ones that are ISO-certified and made for actual divers I suppose).
Hope to see another episode soon. I'd love to see another dive watch series talking with a underwater welder or something.
Cave diving is about as hardcore as it gets. It must take great mental fortitude to enact.
Awesome video. Brilliant footage
This was a fun one, thanks
Brilliant episode!
Excellent video and idea for the future
Fascinating video, but I really couldn't think of a more terrifyingly activity than cave diving 😬
Great video! I’m a diver myself but not crazy enough to go into a dark cave 😄!
Please keep posting these! The algorithm was trying to keep this from me.
Great video! I echo most of the comments this is so hard core 🤯!!! More of these please, regular divers, military divers, pilots, special ops…Pilots, etc….professionals and their watches!
Absolutely brilliant!!
Utterly fascinating.
Andy is articulate, descriptive and engaging. A superman.
now all we need is a pilot to talk about pilot watches and an astronaut to talk about moon phase watches, shouldn't be too hard to arrange...
Great show, fascinating look at Cave Diving Andy's awesome!
Cave diving is on another level of crazy. Great respect Andy.
Brilliant topic!
I’ve wreck dived across the Pacific and Caribbean but would never consider cave diving. Super dangerous. I have always dived with a watch. When I started, there were no dive computers, just gauges. My citizen aqualand was my first dive computer
That was fascinating, and i also live near wookey hole so big plus :) for me there seems to be a massive mental state to overcome, ex military must prepare you a lot but without that i think that would be a big thing to learn to deal with. Loved this chat. I am guessing an aliexpress rebreather homage is not the place to start :)
great episode lads :))
Fantastic! A real diver with a real dive watch. Absolutely brilliant!
More of this please! Maybe I missed it but I didn't get which beands and models he is using?
It would be nice if you could also display the boxes and packaging these watches come in. Thanks.
That was amazing. I think hes mad. But amazing.
This was excellent!
awesome vid fellas
Awesome content. Keep it up
My Vostok has survived bashes on rocks while rafting. Love it!
I agree, I have a Volstok and have taken it diving and swimming with zero issues! Cheers mate
My dudes this was awesome!
That Panerai looks extremely serious for that business, en par with the looks of a G-Shock. Nice tool watch.
I’ve got a man cave and a Sea Dweller Deep Sea; will the watch cope or should I get something better?
Great interview, and a really interesting guest, but I grew a little weary of the repetitive Panerai advert; I mean, how many times did he have to check the time in front of his GoPro? Was the bus late?
Excellent content
Oh my 😂😂😂 this was amazing as always.
I'd love to see you take on the Titoni Seascoper 600
wow... it's been a long time since i have hang to somebody's word telling somethin so interesting.
deep respect for the man, and everyone who does cave diving.
i think when you are a cave diver, you are no different then an astronaut..
wow.
Very cool video! a real change of pace and a great interviewee. Anyone arguing about the "utility" of dive watches needs to, as Andy put it, "get a grip."
Wow, fascinating!
Great series can’t wait to see more, maybe some aviators would like to share what they wear?
I thought that was G Shock! Great video and very nice Panerai.
Fascinating video
Excellent video
My old aqua racer had been in a few oceans, lots of rivers and creeks. On lots of coasts... when i got rid of it I remember saying to myself, what a ride, and thanks. On to the next
Amazing share Andy!
I like the way you produce your videos, they are much more interesting than watching talking heads.
Long time watcher first time commenter. More of these please.
I've learnt a lot from this video, no way am I going cave diving. I'm too old, I'm unfit and I don't want to risk reducing the time I have left on this ball trying to read the time in a cave hours away from the surface. I do however take my hat off to those who do this stuff as there is so much to learn. 30 years ago I may well have loved the chance to give it a go, today not so much. Anyway a great video and thank for sharing.
I agree ! The only diving i do now is muff diving 🤗
@@juniorjohnson5961 your mums?
@@mbal4052 Maybe when she was young
Great interview. Scuba diving has always appealed not sure about cave diving since I went down an old abandoned lead mine and learnt I suffer from claustrophobia. Now, do you know any astronauts?
It's nice to see the dive watches still getting some professional use as the backups for dive computers. Cave diving being one of the niche uses where one still could justify using a diver's watch, but oh well. the other wrist usually still isn't reserved for something more important use. 😉
Great a real education...
Great content
Really interesting conversation... I learned a lot! But...is it me or they forgot to talk about the actual dive watches...( what features, brands divers prefer, what is best technique of using a dive watch...) ???