It seems like people brag about this activity on this forum.
(A little OT here)
Not just SB, but endemic within the creature.
Truk Lagoon, an incident I referenced earlier here. She dove down to that fabled holy-grail steamroller at 212fsw (?) and from far above, I
watched her grind her wrist mount into the sand. Literally happened.
(Further OT? I dove the i169 sub in the 1970 on mixed gas and tables
)
The standard “one of three questions” all non-divers ask…
how deep do you go?
It’s a simple metric that is easily relatable. Brag? I suppose For many.
After a lifetime of diving and watching DCS, wondering if I have had it, my last 40 years have been very very shallow and ultra conservative. I look at my computer occasionally but mostly the thermometer function. My first real computer was the Sea&Sea Profile 1000 (after the Bend-o-Matic & the Brick) which was XY Graphic and had minimal predictive advice.
I do other arguably dumb stunts like surfacing at 100psi, but it’s usually in 2fsw at a shore exit.
To your
@johndiver999 point though, maybe riding that computer is their
only practicable skill set they have mastered? We created this monster in early PADI brainstorming- how to eliminate hand paddling? Put the SPG in their hand, thus creating the artificial ‘need’ to stare at it. That is how (I believe) that it happened.
NOOB divers can’t see much else,
it gives them something to do. It took on a ‘fidget toy’ life of it’s own, due also to the need for an “underwater i-phone” nuck. Further elevated in “need” by the
tech deco obligated diver creating u/w video games -hand helds to pass their boredom.
SCUBA consumers love bright shiny objects, better if they have serial numbers, better yet if they have o-rings and batteries allowing us to totally destroy these obviously defective designs. We like cool stuff.
The CDI factor (Chicks Dig It) is real.
Some augment
this need for stimulation by
the Quest to Eliminate All Lionfish.