Nautilus Lifeline GPS VHF Safety Radio, Black
- Handheld Marine VHF Radio / GPS with Digital Selective Calling (DSC)
- Built in 20 parallel channel GPS – waypoints can be downloaded to Google Earth via included USB cable
- Floating – Depth rated to 425 feet
- Transmit your GPS position and summon help by depressing the Red Button
- No base unit required
Depth rated to 425 feet, the Nautilus Lifeline is a compact, sleek 2-way marine VHF radio with GPS. The Lifeline is always immediately available wherever you are and whatever your activity. Pushing the Red Button automatically sends your exact GPS coordinates and a distress call to all modern marine VHF radios at a range up to 12 miles. You need never worry about being left in the water. The Nautilus Lifeline is also a peripheral computing device, ready to be charged and customized using any PC or laptop through USB. The Nautilus Lifeline includes a quick start guide, data and charging cable, D-ring clip, full manual and software (via download). The Lifeline Pouch is available separately. Perfect for boating, kayaking, fishing, surfing, win
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FarmGirl "FarmGirl"
December 16, 2013I wouldn’t dive without it.,
I first became acquainted with the Nautilus Lifeline while on a dive boat in the Canadian Gulf Islands. After hearing so many stories about divers getting separated from their buddy or their boat, I thought it was a good idea to investigate this device. The one I used had already been charged, set up, and registered. But the Nautilus Lifeline website has excellent (simple, clear, concise) instructions for all of that. The device very simple to use – just three buttons: Green for talking to your own boat or buddy, Orange for calling every boat around you on channel 16, and Red for sending a distress call and your GPS coordinates to every boat within 4000 square miles. The buttons were a little hard to push down, but that also prevents inadvertent transmission, so it’s probably a good thing. I look forward to having the Lifeline with me on all my dives.
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|Tom Gorman III
December 16, 2013Don’t Boat dive without your Nautilus Lifeline!,
I own Gorman Dive Adventures and Travel and lead many trips around the world during the year. I have over 2700 dives and now dive with my Nautilus Lifeline and suggest it to all my divers. Just came back from the Socorro Islands where there are some strong currents, it was good that our boat gave my divers the Nautilus Lifeline to dive with. With this simple device you can let your boat know exactly where you are and if you lose sight of your boat, they can find you with the Nautilus Lifeline.
Divers traveling to 3rd world destinations should think about having this device on their BC when diving in any open water conditions. I now won’t travel or dive without mine. Go on line or to your local dive shop and check them out and buy one! It may save your life!
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|Jeffrey Bozanic
December 16, 2013I *LOVE* my Nautilus Lifeline!,
I dive… a lot. I started diving in 1972, and since then have done over 4,500 dives, in all types of water conditions, and literally all over the world. In this time, one of the problems I have been concerned about most is separation from my dive platform (boat), not because I cannot navigate under water, but because other issues arise over which I have had no control.
Once, I was separated because I saw a group of distressed divers on the surface, and went to their aid. The current carried us so far from the boat we could not swim back. Another time I started a dive in clear surface conditions, and surfaced in fog with surface visibiliity reduced to less than 10 feet. I surfaced within easy hearing distance of the boat, but could not see it! In Florida one time the boat’s anchor line parted, leaving my buddy and I lost at sea (obviously, they later found us!). On another Florida dive, two of my students missed the wreck we were supposed to dive, and surfaced behind the dive boat. They saw the boat immediately, but it took us 6 hours of searching before we found them. And I am always concerned on long dives where there is a current running, and we are far offshore. Until this product was introduced, I had no reliable means of dealing with these issues.
My Nautilus Lifeline has eased my concerns tremendously. It is small, easy to carry, and I have been diving to over 300 feet deep with it with no problems. I do not carry it on every dive. Like any other tool, on some dives it is appropriate, on others unnecessary. But for any dive in which I am concerned about separation where I have no other means to recover from the situation, I carry it religiously.
I have tested it under many conditions, and it has always performed well. Fortunately, I have not had to use it for real in a scuba diving emergency setting, but I have used it a lot as my primary marine radio on my Zodiac. I like it for that because of its resistance to water damage.
I only have 2 minor complaints: If you leave it stored with the case top folded down, the antenna takes a semi-permanent “wilted” set to it. And if you want to use a channel at sea, and forget to have programmed that channel on your laptop prior to going out, you cannot do so (or at least I have not fgured out how to do so). Other than that, it is a GREAT product, and I have been extremely happy with it.
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