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    HOW OLD IS TOO OLD?

    May 08, 2019 2 minutes
    By Francois Burman, Pr. Eng, MSc., and Peter Buzzacott, Ph.D., MP

    Everyone loves the smell of a new car, but eventually the car develops problems, and you realise current models have new safety features. Dive gear such as dive computers and buoyancy compensator devices (BCDs) get old, too. When should we consider replacing them?

    DIVE COMPUTERS

    Divers don’t buy new dive computers every year, so it is not uncommon

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