Dive Tables. A thing of the past?

[BlueKnight]

Hi everyone.
Had a very interesting converstion with my dive instructor a few weeks ago. Apparently he was asked to take part in a servey about abolishing teaching dive tables in PADI open water and teaching how to use dive computers instead :shocked2:

I dont know about you guys but both myself and the instructor were gobsmacked as we certainly dont want to stop learning tables or how to plan dives with tables no matter how good or reliable computers may become. I am a gadget freak and you realy dont want to know how many ascent alarms I have in my kit but I still make a point of working my pressure group out after each dive just to keep in practice. As a newb I dont want to get caught out when a shark eats my computer and I cant do a second dive to get my arm back

Not sure if this has been brought up before but it would be interesting to see what everyone thinks and if this is true that PADI may change their training.

Kind Regards BK

 

[ZapDiver]

 

[AfterDark]

You want to know what people think about this go here:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ad...ns/298925-padi-tables-finally-going-away.html

 

[Crush]

Please refer to Willar's original post http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/basic-scuba-discussions/308934-padi-dropping-dive-tables.html followed by the (less relevant) post http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ba...309421-two-dive-computers-vs-dive-tables.html which it spawned.

Postscript: AfterDark, you must have beaten me by a few milliseconds!

 

[BlueKnight]

Thanks for that guys. I had a feeling that this would have already been discussed somwhere but it looks like we may soon wave bye bye to RDPs

Still it is nice to know your tables just in case.

 

[Kevrumbo]

Not even an issue: You must know how to use this table (http://wrigley.usc.edu/hyperbaric/hugi.pdf) and a few others, if you ever want to volunteer here: Welcome to the University of Southern California Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber

There is no digital computer controlling the hyperbaric chamber, nor is there one tracking the Nitrogen loading of patient, tender & physician here --it's all manual control valves, analog gauges, base 60 arithmetic, and dive & treatment tables.

The point is: A good grounding in fundamental dive tables will always serve you. . .

 

[BlueKnight]

I agree Kev. I belive you need to understand the principles involved with diving. Even if you never use tables again after the inital training at least it would give you an understanding into what is happening to your body when diving.

Still I am always looking for an excuse to buy another gadget

 

[BlueKnight]

Just had a realy scary thought. Hope they never make a dive computer that runs on windows :errrr:

 

[ScubaSteve]

Another thread on this? Really? Maybe a MOD can blend this with one of the others which have been active for the last two or more weeks.

 

[ScubaSteve]

Just had a realy scary thought. Hope they never make a dive computer that runs on windows :errrr:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNqPTOb31S8