What would you do if your computer died?

[lowviz]

...//... why 8 pages of discussion?

This is a social diving site. Good advice takes inordinate amounts of time, posturing, second-guessing, and well-intentioned attempts at a collective buy-in. Fun. -don't be a partypooper.

 

[diverrex]

This is a social diving site. Good advice takes inordinate amounts of time, posturing, second-guessing, and well-intentioned attempts at a collective buy-in. Fun. -don't be a partypooper.

Actually the 8 pages is interesting to show how many divers use two computers (I do). Maybe someone should start a poll thread.

 

[lowviz]

...//... Maybe someone should start a poll thread.

We should discuss this... (kidding)

 

[Kryssa]

I'm a diver on a budget so coughing up $200 for a back up computer was a big decision. My husband says he'd take my dive log and compute the pressure groups and keep diving. I didn't feel that was safe and would have stayed out for 18 hours.

Reading all your comments convinced me it was important enough to budget for the back up computer. I only wish my husband would get one too!

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[redacted]

I'm a diver on a budget so coughing up $200 for a back up computer was a big decision. My husband says he'd take my dive log and compute the pressure groups and keep diving. I didn't feel that was safe and would have stayed out for 18 hours.

Reading all your comments convinced me it was important enough to budget for the back up computer. I only wish my husband would get one too!

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I don't see why one backup computer can't adequately cover both of you for one computer failure as long as you are diving together and you don't push the dive in which the computer failure occurred.

 

[lowviz]

Whoever tends to "hug the bottom" also gets to carry the spare...

 

[Kryssa]

I don't see why one backup computer can't adequately cover both of you for one computer failure as long as you are diving together and you don't push the dive in which the computer failure occurred.

Well, my concern is that he'll sometimes do an extra dive that I don't do or dive nitrox while I'm on air. So if we stuck together every dive of the trip, it would be pretty accurate, but if not, than less so...

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[redacted]

Spare computer could go on every dive and be with the diver with the most aggressive profile (that would be the air divers). It is not as accurate as each having a spare but the direction of the error just make it a bit on the more conservative side. Rather than losing or severely shortening dives in the event of a computer failure, you get to continue diving with a slightly more conservative dive than might be necessary.

 

[lowviz]

What awap said.

 

[SC_Hoaty]

Actually the 8 pages is interesting to show how many divers use two computers (I do). Maybe someone should start a poll thread.

Set your options to 50 posts per page, and now it is only 2 pages of discussion.

I'm a diver on a budget so coughing up $200 for a back up computer was a big decision. My husband says he'd take my dive log and compute the pressure groups and keep diving. I didn't feel that was safe and would have stayed out for 18 hours.

Reading all your comments convinced me it was important enough to budget for the back up computer. I only wish my husband would get one too!

I don't understand what is not safe about computing the pressure group and dive by tables. When done properly, it is more conservative than lots of computers (square profile, round to deeper depth....) And a redundant computer does not have to be expensive (because there is a market for used dive gear). Just be sure you know how to use it, if it is different from your primary computer. Not knowing how to read what the computer is trying to tell you - now that is unsafe!