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The Wheel hasn't been part of OW course for years. I may have seen one once. Wonder how difficult it is to use. Another interesting gadget is the Nav Finder.....too much work.
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Rarely... moreover, I won't dive with you if you don't have one. There are a lot of people like me!Do people even go diving these days without one?
Rarely... moreover, I won't dive with you if you don't have one. There are a lot of people like me!
The Wheel hasn't been part of OW course for years. I may have seen one once. Wonder how difficult it is to use. Another interesting gadget is the Nav Finder.....too much work.
I keep a wheel in my log book. The only use it has had in many years is to be pulled out to get a horrified expression from instructors. If you didn't take the PADI Multi-level Diving specialty you won't know how to use it.
I feel it may be useful to get a general idea of your plan. I mentioned in another thread somewhere that you have to have a pretty good idea of how much time you'll spend at each depth, which means probably knowing the site from past experience. If you decide to stay at one level a bit longer or shorter your plan will not be accurate. So, you'd just follow your computer. It wouldn't be a practical way to plan a wall dive or anywhere you just gradually ascend from your initial deep depth. But it is an interesting toy to play with and to get a knowledge of multi-level diving.PADI's newer eRDPml that you download when doing the e learning is a pretty easy way to plan multilevel dives. I'm still in the computer camp, but it is a useful planning device for basic dives.