Sure, why not? As long as you have a max depth and a turn pressure, that's an OK plan.Is this considered a Plan your Dive?
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Sure, why not? As long as you have a max depth and a turn pressure, that's an OK plan.Is this considered a Plan your Dive?
So for shallow dives - less than 33 meters / 100 feet - is it acceptable to jump in without a plan? As long as you monitor your PDC and SPG/AI? (I will assume for this scenario you should have an idea on turn pressure or rock bottom.)
Is this considered a Plan your Dive?
If I'm diving with my regular buddy, that's usually good enough, because we've dived together so many times that everything else is either "follow established practice" or given by the site and our expectations. If I'm diving with a new(ish) buddy, I like to go through a few key points, like:If you know that you will run out of gas before you hit NDL's, and you calculated rock bottom, and there is a hard floor, the dive plan is "we're going to poke around until we hit our gas limit*.
I'll say it again: it is dangerous to use NAUI or any tables NOT designed for multi-level dives, to plan a multi-level dive, unless you use it as just rough guidance and then actually dive by your computer.I happen to use an excel sheet that uses my avg SAC (last 100 dives), is based on the Naui tables (multi level dive or dives), I plug in depth and time and excel spits out the total gas and total time requiem for the dive including descent, ascent and safety stops.
I use it as a pre-plan and use my PDC and spg to validate my dive.