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SCUBAMedic
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With that attitude - why don't you hold a rock and breath-hold your dive so that you don't have to rely on your requlator and tanks.
Yes use tables to confirm your computer
Yes use a back up computer to comfirm your primary D/C and table it if you want
Yes we have a brain and we had better start using it more or we will lose it
But this is the 21st century, D/C are a tool to be used to make diving safer ... (and this will get some of the grandfathers of this forum going) and I believe that D/C makes diving safer 4 new divers - it is far easier to make mistakes working out a dive on tables than with a computer !!!!!
1. D/C monitor ascent rates - a major cause of DCS ... New divers have problems with ascent rates
2. D/C monitor N2 build up - multilevel. Tables are not that good at that and the wheel can be very difficult 4 new diver to master - esp if they are a couple of times a year diver
3. D/C monitor your depth and time and update your NDLs based on that data ... so if you go outside your plan, you have upto date info to assest you.
This does not negate the use of your brain in diving but provides better information to use when diving.
And also remember (this is for us senior divers who live and breath the sport) ... not everyone is like us. Some people cant use the tables well, want a DM to dive them through an underwater site and just enjoy diving.
Just a quick Bio about myself B4 people jump on their high horse (we have cars now) and start to micro-pick this post apart. I have been diving for about 10 years I started my diving in the military and tables were drumbed into my head - we had to know the basic mil dive profiles by heart. My diving is mainly cold water (although I spent many months diving the tropics as well), deep diving with nitrox as my middle NDL gas. I am a rabid conservationist and a very strong supporter of the 10% of the coastline marine reserve philosophy; and B4 you hunters jump the gun - no I do not eat fish and my dad was a commercial fisherman. This subject is very big in NZ with some very good discussions in the New Zealand Dive Magazine.
I run my own medical training and equipment company specialising in the marine environment. I am a Registered Nurse and a DMT for diving. I dive about 300 times a year - some solo, some on mixed gas, and I enjoy introducing new divers to the sport, there is a great satisfaction in taking someone down to a site that you have dived hundreds of times B4 and have them discover it 4 the 1st time, you get the excitment from them - it's just great.
A good Dive Computer is one of the first things that I advise new divers to buy, if they are going to get into the sport, for the above reasons and also it is easy to transport around - if U are travelling and it can log your dives.
Lastly this forum is fantastic for people to exchange information and experence (I wish I hade discovered it earler), but I don't think it is very useful posting crap replies to build up your numbers to get more stars.
