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Like I said, I plan on using a computer. I just want to be able to double check it.
This isn't really "exactly what a computer does". Since the computer monitors each compartment separately.
Friend, what do you think the tables do?
The tables and the computer (the Haldanian ones) work the same way. There are some minor differences but the tables are just one implementation that works with square profiles and the computer essentially writes a custom multi-level table based on real-time information for every dive. The technique is essentially the same except your computer recalcuates your dive every 3 seconds or so where as you do it once or twice for a whole dive using the tables. All the computer is really doing is eliminating the rounding error you get with the tables.
The model is the same.....
Has anyone out there compared what the table says NDL is for your true average depth to what a computer gives you for NDL?
Obviously the computer should be more true to actual Nitrogen loading but I'm curious how much of a variance there is.
My computer gives me the same NDL's on square profiles as the PADI RDP. Newer computers have more conservatism built in.
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