Seamaster6
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No Dive computers are Great!
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Different brands? Oh my wrist computer generally rides a foot or so higher than my console puter as I hold my camera at the ready, so they could vary that much even tho they're the same brand. Haven't compared them that closely, but I think I'll take a look.I ran into one guy that had 2 computers on a trip. He said one computer was off my 5% from the other. He didn't know which one to follow. That is what sparked my thoughts on this.
He was doing lots of multiple dives, 3 in a day, so from your replies I can see he needed a computer.
Yep. I'll figure out what went wrong, more than likely what I screwed up, later - but for now I'm making sure my puters "are happy," even if in disagreement. I don't ascend from SS within NDL; I ascend in the Green zone for extra safety among other things - what I call "happy puter." Does not matter if I am happy about looking at empty water at all. If my two puters disagree greatly, I probly set the O2 wrong on one of them, but I'll deal with that after I do what I need to do to avoid violating either.Always?
Say you dive on air to a wreck at 100' for 25 minutes (I'm intentionally breaking most tables) and then ascend at 30FPM to 30 feet (in mid water: there is nothing to see here).
If one computer gives you a 15 minute stop at 30 feet and the other tells you you have 30 minutes of NDL (i.e. are free to get out of the water), are you really going to follow the more conservative one?
Pretty much all resort recreational dives are worked out for no decompression. Why do divers wear computers for such dives? I'm not for or against it. Just never used one, so what is the benefit for no deco diving?
Pretty much all resort recreational dives are worked out for no decompression. ... so what is the benefit for no deco diving?