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Interesting also, that doing deep stops can cause your computer to want MORE deco, even when you're off-gassing. So if you're diving a profile similar to GF35/85, or doing ratio deco like AG teaches you might add deco to your computer by doing a deep stop, and if you skip that deco (which shouldn't be needed), you'll bend the computer and it locks out for 2 days.Adding to TSandM's post, here's a comparison I put together of various decompression curves for the same time/depth/gas combination.
I find it interesting to see how the different algorithms stack up.
Notes:
1) I had to forcefeed a longer dive into vplanner since it counts the descent towards bottom time whereas decoplanner and ratio do not.
2) I've hidden the depths, runtimes, and gases so as to not encourage anyone to try to follow the profiles (not that anyone familiar with this stuff can't figure it out anyway). Suffice it so say it's a generic tech 1 level one bottle dive.
the Liquivision has an intelligent layout for the screen -- The depth and dive time are in large numbers, and immediately apparently to a glance.
I agree. While diving with a Liquivision diver this past Sunday, I found myself looking at his wrist for depth and time information as often as at my own (which I needed a light to read).