Best diving computer on the Market

[jale]

Hi guys
Funny, I just came back from a trip which included three to four dives a day and didn't even use a computer
Come on, if you are doing 3 to 4 dives a day, it is single tank recreational dive. Good to have a simple.computer if you like but a lost or a malfunction of the device should not keep you out of water.
It looks to me you are trying to find an expensive solution to a wrong problem...
But of course, if two SW make you feel good, go ahead. Just remember, you are responding to your "want" not to your "need".

 

[Boiler_81]

It depends on the dive profiles and the operator. My buddy had no recourse other than to sit due to the dives we had done and the operators policy. He had to sit for a day and then strap on the loaner computer and continue with the trip.

Hi guys
Funny, I just came back from a trip which included three to four dives a day and didn't even use a computer
Come on, if you are doing 3 to 4 dives a day, it is single tank recreational dive. Good to have a simple.computer if you like but a lost or a malfunction of the device should not keep you out of water.
It looks to me you are trying to find an expensive solution to a wrong problem...
But of course, if two SW make you feel good, go ahead. Just remember, you are responding to your "want" not to your "need".

 

[dmaziuk]

I went to Chuuk ten years ago. In the middle of the trip, my dive buddies computer failed. He had to spend a day sitting on the deck while the rest of us dove.

I'm assuming that was the last time you gave your money to that particular operator?

 

[broncobowsher]

I would have no issues using that operator.

I've done simple recreational diving with a single AL80 and watched the Petrel push me right to the deco limits on as little as the second dive of the day. To blindly dive 3-4 dives a day and think all is good is a sign of an operator that just doesn't care.

 

[Boiler_81]

I have not but only because I have not gotten back to Chuuk. I would dive with them again in a heartbeat.

I'm assuming that was the last time you gave your money to that particular operator?

 

[jale]

I would have no issues using that operator.
I've done simple recreational diving with a single AL80 and watched the Petrel push me right to the deco limits on as little as the second dive of the day. To blindly dive 3-4 dives a day and think all is good is a sign of an operator that just doesn't care.

No it is just an operator who knows divers are responsible for diving their own parameters.
But of course, most of the divers have no clue about that and need a computer to tell them how to dive

 

[markmud]

I would have no issues using that operator.

I've done simple recreational diving with a single AL80 and watched the Petrel push me right to the deco limits on as little as the second dive of the day. To blindly dive 3-4 dives a day and think all is good is a sign of an operator that just doesn't care.

Hi Bronco,

I have pushed the deco limit on as little as one dive. A friend did hit deco with her Suunto on the first dive.

If I were a dive operator, especially in a far off place like Truk, I would require all divers to have a functioning computer. A good way for a hyperbaric doctor to diagnose a diving illness/sickness and create a therapy is to know what diving the victim has been doing. A computer gives you that information. It is like a black box on a jetliner.

Many, if not all, of the upload programs on PC or smartphone/tablet give you graphical displays and lots of information. Very useful stuff if you are in a chamber.

To iterate, if you are tech diving and using a timer and a detailed dive plan, you would still have a computer strapped to you if you were diving off my boat, either my computer or yours.

Just suck it up,
markm

 

[rongoodman]

I would have no issues using that operator.

I've done simple recreational diving with a single AL80 and watched the Petrel push me right to the deco limits on as little as the second dive of the day. To blindly dive 3-4 dives a day and think all is good is a sign of an operator that just doesn't care.

The nice thing about the Shearwaters is the tissue loading graph, which provides a much better idea of what's going on than merely that you were "pushed right into the deco limits". Which compartments were problematic, and how fast do they return to normal? The fast compartments clear in minutes, the medium ones by the next dive. The ones potentially causing concern are the slow compartments over multiple days, and I have never seen them accumulate enough to be a worry on these kinds of recreational liveaboard trips. Deeper or longer dives would of course be another story.

 

[Boiler_81]

We were doing deep dives pushing no deco limits and on some dives getting into slight deco. Even if the operator hadn't had the sit out rule my buddy would have sat himself for a day.

137 responses and no sign of the OP since the initial post.

 

[scrane]

The OP was looking for recommendations for the Suunto DX so the conversation probably isn't of much interest to him.