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What exactly is en13319?Shearwaters let you choose between fresh, salt, and EN13319
I'm not sure what you mean by deco stops if you aren't trained as a tech diver. What method are you referring to?
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We are very pleased to announce that the Shearwater Pursuit family of computers has been awarded CE certification. We are now certified to EN 13319 for Diving accessories Depth gauges and combined time measuring devices with no exceptions.
Even though we passed the basic CE EMS and EMI 61000 tests last year, we felt strongly that it was important to move ahead with additional testing and recently received the more stringent EN 13319 certification.
While CE certification is not necessary outside of the European community, we believe it is important for life support equipment in our sport to be subjected to independent, third party testing. This is just another part of our commitment to manufacturing and supplying simple, reliable and robust equipment.
Best regards to all
Bruce
To be honest I struggle to see the advantage.
BSAC Sports diving is deco diving and is recreational diving. I was taught deco air diving in 1986 1987. Deco diving is not technical diving for many agencies.
Right.If you don't get paid to dive, you are a rec diver, right?
Right.
But to be a mite more serious: IMNSHO the rec/tec dichotomy is yet another sharp black line drawn through a grey area. What's the difference between a "mandatory safety stop" and a 5 min deco stop at 3m? Again IMNSHO, zero. For me, the big difference comes with accelerated deco and gas switches. Not between a "mandatory safety stop" and a backgas deco stop or two.
As always, YMMV
Oh, yes, I am well aware that BSAC teaches deco early on and doesn't call it technical diving. This discussion comes up all the time.
Here's my thinking on that.
This is the new divers forum. Not to be an ugly American, but I would guess that the numerical majority of users of this platform go by the simple rec=NDL / tech=deco dichotomy. Now that may or may not be true, but even if this were a BSAC / CMAS majority site, we shouldn't imply to new divers (most of whom are NOT trained in staged decompression) that if we decide to change the plan during the dive, it's not a problem, we can just do deco.
That's the reason that I'm beating this particular dead horse.