Adventure Gadgets - Deep Blue Dive Watch

Ok, I get it. Nobody wears watches anymore because everyone can get the time off their smart phone or their tablet, or whatever. Well guess what? Batteries go dead, smart phones fall out of your pocket when you are climbing up the side of a cliff and Apple's Gorilla glass face shatters like it was pimp smacked by Mike Tyson. The fighter at his prime, not the skinny-ass vegetarian who is currently on the road with his Spike Lee directed one-man show. And do you really think that zip-lock bag is going to save your phone from saltwater corrosion when diving in the Med? Maybe you don't live an adventure a day, but you should live like the next adventure is just around the corner. That's what this watch is all about. No batteries, no digital bullshit. This 220 grams of solid stainless steel. That's almost half a pound, to you and me. It has a sapphire crystal face, which means you can bash it into anything short of a diamond, and it won't scratch. I've smacked mine into steel banisters, and a few brick walls, not on purpose, but because I'm a klutz. Still no scratches. It has an internal automatic pendulum, so it's self-winding. I wound mine when I bought it four months ago, and I haven't had to wind it since. I haven't had to adjust the time either, so it's pretty damn accurate for a watch that relies on mechanical movement. Best of all, it's waterproof to 1000 meters. The unidirectional bezel means it won't screw up your dive times. It even has a helium release valve just like a Rolex Submariner. The Submariner will set you back between eight and ten grand. The Deep Blue is a mere three hundred bucks. It's not a knock off, and it's a real American company based in New York. I don't know if humans can even dive this deep, but if you want one, Deep Blue even makes a watch that will work down to 3000 meters. When WWIII electromagnetic pulses have cooked all the electronics on earth, this watch will still tell time. When the Zombie Apocalypse has you camped out in some water tower, and you are considering risking getting turned into zombie chow just to get to the Batteries  Plus across the street, this watch will still tell time. So sure, you don't need a watch. Maybe the watch is a relic of a bygone era, but by God, there are some relics worth hanging onto.

Places Worth Visiting: Maunsell Forts

These are Maunsell Forts that were built in the Thames estuaries during World War II. Each tower contained a Bofors 40 millimeter gun anti-aircraft gun crew. They were connected by walkways like the one you can see above. Why hasn't anyone filmed a post-appocalypse movie here yet? I don't know, but it's an amazing place. There were six locations in total, and they had cool names like Shivering Sands. They were decommissioned in in the 1950s, and in the 1960s several of the forts were used as pirate radio stations delivering the delicious sin of rock and roll to the hungry sinners of the UK. Below is the Knock John sea fort.