Suunto Cobra Back On-Line; Suunto Class-Action Lawsuit
Oct 17, 2018 15:12:44 GMT -8
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Post by SeaRat on Oct 17, 2018 15:12:44 GMT -8
Okay, there are a couple of things here with this dive. I wanted to dive my "new" regulator, a Pacer/Enduro combo, but also with my Suunto Cobra and test to see whether it would download onto my iMac. I got Suunto DM5 working again, and found that it actually downloaded my two dives this summer (but not the Yaquina Bay dive). So I dove yesterday in the Clackamas River to get the info and see whether it worked. Here's the result:
From my Notes portion of the dive log:
What I found out when researching Suunto is that there is a class-action lawsuit involving a number of their computers, with a faulty depth sensor.
topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/858350-suunto-dive-computer-class-action-settlement/
My Suunto Cobra was purchased right at the earliest date, and may or may not qualify. But I thought you'd want to know about this.
John
From my Notes portion of the dive log:
I was diving my twin 45s, @ 3000 psig. I started at just under 1500 psig in the tanks. The plan was to dive in the current, and take photos of underwater life. I had my dive flag along (which I don't really like, as I am constantly tending it and getting tangled in the line). I took my Canon PowerShot SD500 in its housing. Because of the cold water, I wore a full wetsuit, including gloves. I also was wearing ForceFins, as I wanted to dive them again in current. I was using my Pacer/Enduro regulator by Dacor, and with the Suunto Cobra attached. My BCD was my Para-Sea BC.
I walked down to the Clackamas River at High Rocks, and started getting my gear on. Then I noted that one glove was missing. I put down everything on a rock in the river, got out, took off my weight belt, and walked up the trail a bit until I found the glove. I then came back down, got my weights on, and went back out to the rock to put on the rest of my gear. I sat down on another rock near the big rock I had my gear on, and put on my Force Fins and mask, then got my gloves on. I crouched down, and launched out into the river with my regulator second stage in my mouth. I noted that my dive flag line was wrapped around a rock (actually two, as I found out), and untangled them. I kept the free line short this time to minimize tangles.
As I got to the bottom, I noted that my camera housing was floating; I had forgotten to put the weights back onto the housing after using it for canoeing with Chris on the Tualatin River. I set the camera, and started trying to take photos. But the floating housing made that difficult. I held onto the housing, but every time I went to take a photo, my gloved hand tended to mover the selector switch to the "Review Photos" setting. After I figured that out, I started looking at the bottom. There was a lot of freshwater sponge, and I took several photos if it, but had to delete several as the camera did not keep its "close-up" setting and they were blurry. I spent a lot of time looking at the bottom, and finally decided to surface to see where I was. Well, I had been going around in circles in the upper whirl currents, and had not gotten to the deeper water yet.
I swam out to deeper water, and descended to about 25 feet. It was pretty dark, and the camera did not want to take photos. I selected the "Flash" setting again (I had to do that multiple times), and found some sponge that had developed what I figure were reproductive egg masses, little round things within the tissue that looked for all the world like tapioca. I tried getting several photos, and sometimes the flash worked, sometimes not. I deleted a number of blurred photos again. I was at depth, so added do my Para-Sea BC some air twice. When I surfaced the second time I needed to purge the air to submerge.
The Dacor regulator was working very, very well. It's very easy breathing, and I monitored my Cobra readout closely as I started with only half a tank full (pressure around 1500 psig). I wanted to breathe the regulator down to zero, which I was doing. When it read 178 pnig, the regulator still did not breathe hard. Finally, it was reading zero, and I went to turn down my J-valve; man was that hard to reach without a pull rod (note to self--use a pull rod next dive with these tanks). After tripping the J-reserve, my Cobra read 185 psig. That's supposed to be a 500 psig reserve, so it should have read around 250, but some air either leaked out of the reserve cylinder, or it's a 300 psig spring.
At this point, I surfaced at 34 minutes of dive time (my Seiko watch showed just over 35 minutes). I snorkeled to my exit, got my fins off and threw them up onto the rocks (one went back into the water, but it was only a small crack in the rocks). I then crawled out onto the rocks until I was on dry rock, and stood up. I gathered the gear, then climbed up the river bank to the trail, and headed back to my car.
I walked down to the Clackamas River at High Rocks, and started getting my gear on. Then I noted that one glove was missing. I put down everything on a rock in the river, got out, took off my weight belt, and walked up the trail a bit until I found the glove. I then came back down, got my weights on, and went back out to the rock to put on the rest of my gear. I sat down on another rock near the big rock I had my gear on, and put on my Force Fins and mask, then got my gloves on. I crouched down, and launched out into the river with my regulator second stage in my mouth. I noted that my dive flag line was wrapped around a rock (actually two, as I found out), and untangled them. I kept the free line short this time to minimize tangles.
As I got to the bottom, I noted that my camera housing was floating; I had forgotten to put the weights back onto the housing after using it for canoeing with Chris on the Tualatin River. I set the camera, and started trying to take photos. But the floating housing made that difficult. I held onto the housing, but every time I went to take a photo, my gloved hand tended to mover the selector switch to the "Review Photos" setting. After I figured that out, I started looking at the bottom. There was a lot of freshwater sponge, and I took several photos if it, but had to delete several as the camera did not keep its "close-up" setting and they were blurry. I spent a lot of time looking at the bottom, and finally decided to surface to see where I was. Well, I had been going around in circles in the upper whirl currents, and had not gotten to the deeper water yet.
I swam out to deeper water, and descended to about 25 feet. It was pretty dark, and the camera did not want to take photos. I selected the "Flash" setting again (I had to do that multiple times), and found some sponge that had developed what I figure were reproductive egg masses, little round things within the tissue that looked for all the world like tapioca. I tried getting several photos, and sometimes the flash worked, sometimes not. I deleted a number of blurred photos again. I was at depth, so added do my Para-Sea BC some air twice. When I surfaced the second time I needed to purge the air to submerge.
The Dacor regulator was working very, very well. It's very easy breathing, and I monitored my Cobra readout closely as I started with only half a tank full (pressure around 1500 psig). I wanted to breathe the regulator down to zero, which I was doing. When it read 178 pnig, the regulator still did not breathe hard. Finally, it was reading zero, and I went to turn down my J-valve; man was that hard to reach without a pull rod (note to self--use a pull rod next dive with these tanks). After tripping the J-reserve, my Cobra read 185 psig. That's supposed to be a 500 psig reserve, so it should have read around 250, but some air either leaked out of the reserve cylinder, or it's a 300 psig spring.
At this point, I surfaced at 34 minutes of dive time (my Seiko watch showed just over 35 minutes). I snorkeled to my exit, got my fins off and threw them up onto the rocks (one went back into the water, but it was only a small crack in the rocks). I then crawled out onto the rocks until I was on dry rock, and stood up. I gathered the gear, then climbed up the river bank to the trail, and headed back to my car.
What I found out when researching Suunto is that there is a class-action lawsuit involving a number of their computers, with a faulty depth sensor.
...The devices allegedly affected by the defective depth pressure sensors include:
Cobra, Cobra 2, Cobra 3, Cobra 3 Black
Vyper, Vyper Novo, Vyper 2, Vyper Air
HelO2
Gekko
Vytec, Vytec DS
Zoop, Zoop Novo
Mosquito
D4, D6, D9, D4i, D6i, D4i Novo, D6i Novo, D9tx, DX
Class Members may be entitled to participate in the replacement or repair program or be reimbursed under the terms of the Suunto dive computer class action settlement.
The settlement also provides for the funding of scuba safety classes should any funds remain after reimbursement, repair, and replacement claims have been paid out.
Those who wish to object to or exclude themselves from the Suunto dive computer class action settlement must do so by Nov. 14, 2018. The fairness hearing will be held Dec. 14, 2018.
Class Members include those who purchased new dive computers listed above that was manufactured between Jan. 1, 2006 and Aug. 10, 2018...
Cobra, Cobra 2, Cobra 3, Cobra 3 Black
Vyper, Vyper Novo, Vyper 2, Vyper Air
HelO2
Gekko
Vytec, Vytec DS
Zoop, Zoop Novo
Mosquito
D4, D6, D9, D4i, D6i, D4i Novo, D6i Novo, D9tx, DX
Class Members may be entitled to participate in the replacement or repair program or be reimbursed under the terms of the Suunto dive computer class action settlement.
The settlement also provides for the funding of scuba safety classes should any funds remain after reimbursement, repair, and replacement claims have been paid out.
Those who wish to object to or exclude themselves from the Suunto dive computer class action settlement must do so by Nov. 14, 2018. The fairness hearing will be held Dec. 14, 2018.
Class Members include those who purchased new dive computers listed above that was manufactured between Jan. 1, 2006 and Aug. 10, 2018...
topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/858350-suunto-dive-computer-class-action-settlement/
My Suunto Cobra was purchased right at the earliest date, and may or may not qualify. But I thought you'd want to know about this.
John
