I recently bought my first dive computer, an Oceanic Veo 100. I bought it because of a planned trip to Provo this spring. I'll do a few dives with an operation that requires a computer. I'll try it out for the first time in December, when I'll do two or three dives during a week in Dominica. The little Veo will be redundant, a hose mount under my mini spg and depth gauge. I've read the manual. It seems simple enough, but I'll still follow my no decompression tables rigidly, and spend some time on the line anyway. I do have one serious question, though.
I got the Veo because it is small, simple, and available at deeply discounted prices. I don't dive using mixed gases, and I can't imagine why I'd want to download old dive profiles. This whole thing mystifies me. I sometimes keep an informal personal log, but it's narrative diary, a few sentences about anything I wanted to remember. The location, dates, my impressions, anything noteworthy. These diaries go back to the 1970s, but, except for a few attached photos, I seldom look at them. I stopped keeping a formal log decades ago, and I never have and never will ask anyone to sign anything. The concept is absurd and disagreeable, and smells of big brother and marketing ploys. Downloading computer details, unless you are doing something with professional implications, makes no sense to me. What do people do with these data? Stare at them like pictures of old girlfriends? Compile statistics that are, in truth, meaningless months or years later? Am I missing something here? Why this apparently widespread desire to download and store data from a dive computer?
I got the Veo because it is small, simple, and available at deeply discounted prices. I don't dive using mixed gases, and I can't imagine why I'd want to download old dive profiles. This whole thing mystifies me. I sometimes keep an informal personal log, but it's narrative diary, a few sentences about anything I wanted to remember. The location, dates, my impressions, anything noteworthy. These diaries go back to the 1970s, but, except for a few attached photos, I seldom look at them. I stopped keeping a formal log decades ago, and I never have and never will ask anyone to sign anything. The concept is absurd and disagreeable, and smells of big brother and marketing ploys. Downloading computer details, unless you are doing something with professional implications, makes no sense to me. What do people do with these data? Stare at them like pictures of old girlfriends? Compile statistics that are, in truth, meaningless months or years later? Am I missing something here? Why this apparently widespread desire to download and store data from a dive computer?
