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redpcar
·Lego Porsche? Check
Helium Relief Valve on Omega Seamaster Professional... have you ever used it?
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Kiltie
·I salute you, sir, and feel vindicated by your wisdom. To those who would consign the HEV to oblivion, I say no more! Join the true, the faithful, the proud - celebrate the HEV and the fact that Rolex doesn’t have one. The crown has the cyclops and that’s even uglier than the HEV and, while useful to the 40+ owner set, IS IN NO WAY COOL LIKE THE HEV. Pick up hot chicks with the cyclops? I think not.
70th post.
Not as cool as 69.
Anyway, as Buffalo Springfield would say, for what it's worth, ambiguously ( and not so...) sarcastic posts like this are what make this the last forum I still post to. Thanks for keeping it fun!
Fake Edit:
Would LOVE to have a 5513, but a nice one is funky crazy expensive. Like, too expensive to wear. Totally would settle for an early oughts 14060, though.
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TimeODanaos
·no one had told us that Hurricane Dean was not too far away; what was supposed to be a pleasant drift turned into a rescue of my diving companion. We then spent the next 48hrs in an underground storm shelter with a dozen bridezillas that had their honeymoon’s wrecked by a Cat. 5 hurricane.
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Betam@x
·never used it, but i love the look at the 2531.80 and 2220 versions.
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BlackTalon
··This Space for RentI want to option the movie rights on this one!
Or a porno film... knock knock "Yes, who is it?" "Me and my diving companion. He just had to be rescued from an almost certain death" "Oh there is only the 5 of us upset brides in here, missing out on our honeymoons. Let me unlock the door for you." cue cheesy music... Zoom in camera 3 on helium valve...
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TimeODanaos
·I had been wondering why OP's chosen thread title mentioned Helium "Relief"...
(Dr Freud has now left the building.)
(Dr Freud has now left the building.)
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DoctorEvil
·I had been wondering why OP's chosen thread title mentioned Helium "Relief"...
(Dr Freud has now left the building.)
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cvalue13
·The underground storm bunker was maybe 30’x30,’ and dug into the base of one of the minor ‘piton’ mountains at the resort. All resort guests were crammed in there, squatting and sleeping on the floor.
With those Piton mountains, one of the biggest hurricane dangers are mud slides.
It’s interesting that people might fool themselves into some comfort about surviving a flood, based on the idea that they could probably swim to safety somehow. There is no similar self-delusion about surviving a mud slide.
For ~24 hours all I could think of was the storm bunker becoming a tomb under 20-30’ of mud. Genuinely - without hyperbole - the most terrified I’ve ever been, and not for just moments.
Fortunately St. Lucia saw only Cat 2 winds (sustained 100mph), and only a handful of inches of rain. Nearby Martinique got 14” of rain overnight. Had that 14” fallen instead on St. Lucia’s Pitons...
That I was still wearing the 300M/He release valve didn’t help anything.
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TimeODanaos
·Wow. Can't "like" a post like that, wouldn't be appropriate. But definitely have an "impressed" on me.
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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...
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Kiltie
·That I was still wearing the 300M/He release valve didn’t help anything.
Mm...
You can't really be sure, since there's no way you'll ever know what would have happened if you HADN'T been wearing it.
Evidence of the importance of the HEV? Somebody get me the opening music for "In Search Of..."
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Dan S
·One of my favorite threads of all time. And great to read if you want to know which OF members have a sense of humor.
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plongeur78
·I’ve worn my planet ocean for 100’s of commercial dives, here she is in the Gulf of Mexico, there is still plenty of seamaster and sea dwellers being used as intended.
The Manual valve plus is when it’s closed there’s no chance of flooding due to lack of maintenance which a huge amount of HEV watches are liable to if the seals haven’t been changed and looked after enough as they pick up a lot of dirt and dust in daily use.
To the poster who hates the HEV, don’t buy dive watches ♂️ They are actually designed for us and we like them!
The Manual valve plus is when it’s closed there’s no chance of flooding due to lack of maintenance which a huge amount of HEV watches are liable to if the seals haven’t been changed and looked after enough as they pick up a lot of dirt and dust in daily use.
To the poster who hates the HEV, don’t buy dive watches ♂️ They are actually designed for us and we like them!
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cvalue13
·The Manual valve plus is when it’s closed there’s no chance of flooding due to lack of maintenance which a huge amount of HEV watches are liable to if the seals haven’t been changed and looked after enough as they pick up a lot of dirt and dust in daily use.
This is great intel, and seems suddenly obvious once you say it. Balances against risk of forgetting to open it. Cost/benefit. Yin/Yang.
I’ve worn my planet ocean for 100’s of commercial dives, here she is in the Gulf of Mexico
Perhaps Omega should perhaps offer a model with HEV for the few hundred folks that might need it, and one without for the several thousand for whom it only represents unnecessary maintenance costs
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