Just got back from from the Caribbean after a 4 week vacation. I had my 42 OVM and my 39 Vintage GMT Pepsi with me and wore both of them during all sorts of water activities. Fishing in the surf, boating, sunbathing, swimming and snorkelling. Both watches performed absolutely fine. The only "maintenance" I did was that I treated them the same way I treated my fishing rod and reel. At the end of each day I had them on the beach or in the ocean, I rinsed them off thoroughly with running tap-water.
@@syndicatedsatellite7288 I went to Guadeloupe, which is a French island. Being a EU-citizen, that tends to make things way less complicated for me. However: This time I needed a negative COVID-test not older than 72 hrs at the time of embarkation and I had to sign a declaration that I didn't have any symptoms and didn't have contact (that I knew of) with infected people during the last 3 days before travelling. The trip was actually pretty relaxed ... less passengers meant security checkpoints were less busy. Plus I got a whole row of 3 seats to myself on the plane. When I left for the island their infection-numbers were very low. They had had around 550 total cases since March at that point (~138 per 100,000), 14 deaths and no patients in ICU-care. One week after my arrival, their rates exploded for some reason. I went out less than usual, but since it was the low season anyway, lots of places would've been closed even without a pandemic, so... All in all still a very worthwhile trip IMO ... especially because prices were even lower than usual for this time of the year.
I took my ocean 39 for a little swimming action in the mediterranean sea and even tested out the diving capabilities to a small extend (about 2-3 metres). Unsurprisingly it managed to keep the water out. If you wanna take your (diving) watch into the water make sure to avoid jumps (high pressure), big temperature differences and wash the salt water afterwards off and you should be good to go. Remember to keep in mind to replace old seals (my watch was 6 months old when I took it into the water. It is recommend to replace seals every 2-3 years if you have taken/plan to take the watch into the water.
Iv dived with two stenhart watches to 90m tri mix diver , heliox , heliair whatever your club calls it , the watches are ocean vintage military and ocean 44 , i have no doubt my ocean one 39 is exactly the same ,
@@syndicatedsatellite7288 realistically deeper than your likely to dive on mixed gas , should you go through the hastle of mixed gas exams + training ,
