Air integration

[Nemrod]

I have come to appreciate the floating north pointer on the main screen of my Teric. It's all I need for my frequent drift dives in SE Florida. I really do have all the information I need in one place.

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Exactly. The Jupiter Wreck Trek is a perfect example of needing to make a couple of jumps from one pile of junk to the next pile of junk across a featureless sand bottom and sometimes, often even, the current is not in the direct direction of the next spot. A couple of years ago, maybe it was a new DM, but the main group took off behind her and I was looking and thinking, no, the direction of the current and the direction they were going was not going to add up to an intercept with the next wreck. I did not follow, it is not required to, I made the jump and was the only one there, they got blown off and surfaced. My compass and knowing the heading helped me stay on course to the next two wreaks.

 

[tursiops]

After filling, the diver analyzes the tank as necessary, puts on the regulator and checks the pressure themselves.

Sometimes. My most recent trip the deck person analyzed the tank while I observed, and then put the regulator on the tank, cheking the pressure after he did so.
I'm sorry you think your experience is true everywhere.

 

[scubadada]

Exactly. The Jupiter Wreck Trek is a perfect example of needing to make a couple of jumps from one pile of junk to the next pile of junk across a featureless sand bottom and sometimes, often even, the current is not in the direct direction of the next spot. A couple of years ago, maybe it was a new DM, but the main group took off behind her and I was looking and thinking, no, the direction of the current and the direction they were going was not going to add up to an intercept with the next wreck. I did not follow, it is not required to, I made the jump and was the only one there, they got blown off and surfaced. My compass and knowing the heading helped me stay on course to the next two wreaks.

I have had the same experience on the Jupiter wreck trek. With a very strong north current, I have been in the few to make the Esso Bonaire from the Miss Jenny. Many divers do not know how to make a heading.

 

[Maolli]

Sometimes. My most recent trip the deck person analyzed the tank while I observed, and then put the regulator on the tank, cheking the pressure after he did so.
I'm sorry you think your experience is true everywhere.

No need to apologize just realize that just because on one liveboard trip the crew checked the pressure while you watched, doesn't mean they do that on all liveaboards.

I'm sorry you think your one experience happens everywhere.