it's not my modus operandi. I'm probably middle of the road when it comes to my use & trust of PDCs. Trim & buoyancy??? Well, it's no secret that I'm a snob. YMMV.Well, isn't hyperbole, straw men and excluded middle de rigeur in this
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it's not my modus operandi. I'm probably middle of the road when it comes to my use & trust of PDCs. Trim & buoyancy??? Well, it's no secret that I'm a snob. YMMV.Well, isn't hyperbole, straw men and excluded middle de rigeur in this
I guess we agree pretty much on that topic.Trim & buoyancy??? Well, it's no secret that I'm a snob. YMMV.
Must be one mencsh of a diver!"
Sure. 10 people on SB make up a quorum. In their own minds perhaps. I work in a dive shop and see what the other 99.999% of divers do. Hint: It aint tables and they're not getting bent either. Like the good doctor said above, if you believe everything that you read here, most divers would be diving BP/Ws, 7 foot primary hoses, octos on 70 degree swivels, steel tanks, Shearwater Petrels on all available limbs AND carefully planning their 30 feet dives with tables. Good luck finding those when you're not diving caves. Worthless conversation indeed.
What do you call it when it is taught by any of the other technical training agencies--which is 100% of them?I While we were busy tilling up the sand on the bottom, generally making a mess out of the site, I glanced upwards. I saw this guy hovering effortlessly above us, knees bent, hands clasped in front of him, in what I've later learned to recognize as GUE style.
So what does go on in a modern computer class?
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Sure. 10 people on SB make up a quorum. In their own minds perhaps. I work in a dive shop and see what the other 99.999% of divers do. Hint: It aint tables and they're not getting bent either. Like the good doctor said above, if you believe everything that you read here, most divers would be diving BP/Ws, 7 foot primary hoses, octos on 70 degree swivels, steel tanks, Shearwater Petrels on all available limbs AND carefully planning their 30 feet dives with tables. Good luck finding those when you're not diving caves. Worthless conversation indeed.
I'm not sure where you got that from my post. I said people DO use them. I also said it probably isn't the norm. If you can't read for comprehension it's no wonder you think the discussion has no value.
Computers are fine when the diver understands what it is telling them.
THIS^^^^^
My simple rule - do not use that which to you is magic. No cargo cult diving.
That said, I've seen more than my share of divers for whom the tables are pure magic. They know how to use the tables to plan dives and determine their current group letter, but they don't have a clue what any of it means. They simply blindly do what the table tells them.
When I took the Deep Diving specialty, we derived from the basic physical laws the differential equations that produce the values in the tables and the algorithms in the computers.