You appear to be very pro lock out, I've never seen someone argue so vehemently for a lock out screen, you must work for Suunto.
You did not however address my point, that the purpose of a computer is to assist you. Even if a diver makes a mistake the computer should not take its ball and go home, it should continue to assist you in minimizing worst possible effects u til you surface.
No I don't work for Suunto, and I'm not arguing for anything - I just don't see a problem with it. No need to be insulting
You did not however address my point, that the purpose of a computer is to assist you. Even if a diver makes a mistake the computer should not take its ball and go home
Mistake is that it? Going into deco by accident is right up there with OOA. Inexcusable
All computers will, get you to the surface and will not lock out if you follow them.
If you ignore your computer and decide to do your own thing then it will punish you at the end of the dive.
There's a fair amount of divers who don't understand the basics of their computers, many have been confused when they see their "NDL" time increase rather than decrease (because its in deco) so what do they do? they continue a dive, just follow their depth gauge (because their comp is acting weird) make a standard stop and get out. If the computer didn't lock them out they'd probably jump back in the water
Unfortunately computer manufacturers have to play to the lowest common denominator - and in diving that bar can be set quite low for the vast majority
Once again, for the last time I'll repeat myself. In nearly 1000 Suunto dives I've never locked out my computer and I've done some stuff that wasn't best practice.
You really do have to work quite hard to lock out a computer, its just that some people have perfected this art