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The "buddy" field in Shearwater cloud is configured to force "Title Case" formatting and it does not allow punctuation of any kind. This is not helpful. It mangles peoples names and it makes it difficult to log multiple buddies. Just allow the user to type like any other free text field and...

You might have a point except he was specifically pointing out that most of the "tank size" features being requested either already exist or don't require knowing the tank size. SAC rate: This is already a feature of the Teric and SAC rate does not account for tank size. SAC rate is in PSI/BAR...

Here is an article that explains the effects of different charge/discharge profiles with lithium ion batteries... How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries - Battery University Figure 4 and the following quote from the article sum things up pretty well if you don't feel like absorbing all the...

I agree, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. The SW cloud software shows that at 100% charge the battery voltage is 4.2 or even 4.3 volts. That is fully charged for li-ion battery cells. A voltage of 4.0 is about 80% which is what the software shows when I limit charging to around that level...

The charge level (both high and low) has an impact on all lithium ion batteries. Keeping a lithium battery between 80% charge and 30% discharge will roughly quadruple it's useful life vs a 100% to 20% charge/discharge profile. For example, Tesla has a similar "max charge level" setting on...

Due to the non-user replaceable battery in the Teric, I only charge it to around 70 to 80% before most dives. This should extend the life of the battery considerably, but it's kind of lame to have to constantly check on the charge state while it's charging so that I can stop at the right time...

I own 5 of these same transmitters from various computers I bought over the years. Most of them are several years old. One is 12 years old and it's been on several hundred dives now. I have never replaced the battery compartment o-rings on any of them that I remember. None have ever flooded...

For what it's worth, I have been diving sidemount with two grey transmitters for about 10 years now (Oceanic computer, but same transmitters used by Shearwater) and I have never had a problem with loss of signal. I now have around 20 dives on my Teric and no problems at all. I understand the...

"...was getting her final dive certification with her husband..." Based on that quote from the article, it sounds like this might have been an OW training dive. Deep Six in Lakeland is a fairly well known and respected dive shop. I don't have a lot of first hand experience with them, but I...

We would need to know your max depth on the second dive, but there are a few possibilities... 1) The max depth was less than 30' so a safety stop would not be called for since the whole dive is basically a safety stop. 2) The last few minutes of the dive were in less than 20' of water. In that...

That is certainly possible, but if that is the case he needs to state it more clearly in my opinion. It would also be important to know the circumstances, but even if that can't be shared for whatever reason the source of the accusations needs to be clarified. If for some reason he can't talk...

@gianaameri, To some extent I can see your point. I see common ground in some of your recent posts. Most of what you are suggesting is already being done at many different dive sites in Florida. In some cases the controls are actually much tighter. For example... * Cow requires NSS-CDS...

Fair enough, but it sounded like a jab at those that are simply asking for a source. Also, I'm not really the one jumping to conclusions. I'm trying to get factual information instead of making accusations that seem to be based on speculation. If I seem "emotional" it's because I feel very...

I clarified the Trimix comment in a previous post. What I was trying to say is that they were attempting a dive that would normally be a staged deco Trimix cave dive base on accepted practices. I didn't mean to imply that they were actually using Trimix and yes, there is a huge difference...

That is certainly a concern. Ideally, each dive team would need to lock it open with their own chain/lock. If your team's lock is the last one then you would close the gate behind you and lock it shut with the shared lock. That is the theory, but I hate the idea and so would most other cave...

Good question. There is at least one site with the gate underwater at the entrance to the cave. Some cave divers have been known to bring their own lock/chain so they can lock the gate open. It's not a desirable solution though for obvious reasons. Gates on land make more sense, but there are at...

We don't know their exact profile or the percentage of their time spent at max depth so exact numbers aren't going to happen. However, what might seem to be a lot of extra gas (i.e. the extra hundreds of cuft needed to do this dive properly) would be, among other things, for reserve in case a...

I didn't really think you were trying to imply otherwise, I was just trying to add to what I *think* flots am was getting at. Which is that while everyone thinks 'it won't happen to me' before they start a dive, these guys had no justification for feeling that way. I totally agree with your...

Obviously they thought it wouldn't happen to them. I think the point that Flots Am is trying to make is that it's only part of the problem in this incident. You make it sounds like everyone that dives at this dive site is surviving by shear luck and that they are no different than these two...

Again, here are all the quotes I have read from recovery diver Robert Brooks... "He approached me to be his mentor, and I told him I couldn't take him caving until he got his cave card." "He said he loaned Spivey some equipment and urged him to take a course to get certified, but he kept...