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I just got back from diving at Cayman Brac. I showed every one my Scout and the other divers kind of though it was not needed. So I had to just say I just liked gadgets.

While doing a drift dive with about 4 knots current I was able to come right back to the boat without a problem. 12 other divers ended up scattered about 1/2 mile away moving away from the island. It very nearly became a dangerous situation. One diver ran out of air. Funny thing they then wanted to know where to get a Scout after that. Thank you for your great product. Now I think I want the Sport model. This will save some lives.

P.S. You need to make one for the airlines so that they can find my missing bag!

The best story I have is diving in Maui with my Sport while on vacation. I took it with me and went boat diving in Maui. The dive master laughed when I told him what it was. He said he didn't need that with clear water and his compass he could always find the boat. It was a night dive and I set everything up and jumped in. At the end of our 55 plus minute dive he points the way back to the boat. I turn on my sport and do a quick circle in place and point in a different direction than he does. He looks surprised at me as I indicate a different direction. I point to the lights on the sport receiver, he shrugs as we start up. As we get shallower he is very surprised to see the lights of the dive boat just ahead. When we surface he is a believer. He says well I usually just start up in the direction of my compass and as we approach the surface I can see the lights, but that thing is awesome, it really can tell where the boat is.

Just got back from another 4-day trip on the Conception from Truth Aquatics. My Dive Tracker Scout performed perfectly as usual. Even though this year they reset their tranmitters (for the rental Sports) to the same Pulse rate as that used by the Scout, I used my own transmitter hung over the side. A few times, I forgot to pull it up after the dive. Even though the housing now has some battle scars from the prop it is still working great.

Your Dive Trackers make for a much more relaxing dive. This trip I came up under the boat on 17 out of 18 dives. The only exception was when the receiver battery died during the dive.

I dropped my sport transmitter over the side of my brothers boat offshore San Diego. Since it was late at night and I wasn’t geared up, we left it.

It took a week for me to get my boat back in the water since we’ve had a series of storms come through San Diego lately. Complete with small craft warnings. It was almost two weeks before we could come back and look for the dropped transmitter. We used a rather informal approach to finding it. Consisting of repeated query’s “are we there yet?” with the usual response of ‘I don’t think so’ an dipping the sport receiver in the water and pointing it around. Much to my surprise, it worked. The pacific is a big ocean and transmitter batteries are finite. It took about 10 minutes to find it nestled near the base of some kelp. I just wanted to say thanks. Nice product, works great.

I use it mostly to find my boat again when diving in the kelp off San Diego. Saves repeated surfacings through the kelp forest to find my boat. I hang the sport overboard about 15 ft below the boat and use a scout to find it. I nice product. Works well. I just wanted to share that with you.

This thing has been all over the world and seen more water than a fish. It is actually quite dependable up till now.

I wanted to write and say thank you very much for shipping us the new unit. We used it this past weekend in the Channel Islands and it worked perfect. I can't thank you enough for the expedited attention you gave to us. We have told several of our friends about your units and they will hopefully be contacting your company in the near future to purchase a set.