Scientific Divers are proud to announce that Buddycall® 2^nd Generation are now in stock and available through Trident Dive Equipment of Chatsworth California. trident@tridentdive.com.  It’s the device that’s revolutionizing personal underwater signaling and emergency response, bringing a new dimension to diver safety and communication.

Buddycall® is a battery operated sound-emitting device that allows divers to immediately attract the attention of fellow divers. It may be worn around the wrist like a watch or attached to other gear like a diver’s BCD. Buddycall enables divers to alert others easily and reliably. www.buddycall.org

Often while diving, people want to get someone’s attention to point something out, check on how much air is left in their tank, or to keep in touch with a diving partner or group. In emergency situations, we all know that time is critical. With Buddycall, divers are able to alert one another instantly and effectively so precious seconds are not wasted. It can be heard underwater for greater than 100 feet thereby providing divers with a large radius of safety. The fact that it operates independently of a diver’s air supply is an important safety component.  A common life-threatening emergency involves divers running out of air, whether by gear failure or depletion, a situation where air powered signaling devices clearly won’t work. Other devices such as tank bangers and rattle sticks are clumsy and inconvenient. In an emergency, a person can be too preoccupied or even confused to bang on their tank or shake a stick. With Buddycall, a diver simply pushes a button to get the life-saving attention they need.  

Buddycall® works by making a pleasant and attention grabbing sound. Activated by pressing a clearly visible button, a diver can use a short burst of sound to get a buddy’s attention or leave it in the ON position for hands-free use in an emergency.

Buddycall® was created and designed by Wayne Smith, a Californian now residing in Auckland, New Zealand. Mr. Smith first came up the idea while sailing with his wife from California to New Zealand. Diving is their passion and during their travels they dove many of the atolls and islands of the South Pacific. On these dives he realized what they needed was to develop a signaling device that was simple, handy, and user friendly. Buddycall is the result of Wayne’s idea. Mr. Smith comments, “I wanted a design that was tough, compact, and ergonomic. Of course it also had to work well and it does. It's loud enough to be heard at a good distance, but not so loud to be uncomfortable for the wearer.  People’s diving experience will be far more pleasurable and safe with Buddycall.” 

The Advantages of Buddycall at a Glance

·   Enhances diver communication and safety

·   Gets fast attention in an emergency

·   Battery powered

·   Independent of air supply

·   Audible up to 100 feet / 30 meters

·   Tough as a clam, working depth to 110 feet / 34 meters

·   Ergonomic and diver friendly, straps on wrist or clips on BC

·   Long battery life, works for over 50 dives on a set of batteries

Buddycall® is designed for both diving and snorkeling. Dive instructors and dive masters will find Buddycall to be of significant benefit because of its ability to enhance student and instructor communication. It will increase student’s comfort level and confidence because they will have a reliable means to communicate with, and need be, alert their instructor in an emergency. Skin divers young and old will use Buddycall to help keep the group together and to summon the attention of fellow divers to spectacular underwater plant and animal life. 

Contact:

Primary Distributor:

Trident Dive Equipment:

www.tridentdive.com

trident@tridentdive.com

Scientific Divers Ltd:

www.buddycall.org

wayne@buddycall.org