Blackcrusader
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Seriously? I would not recommend that to a novice, but I certainly wouldn't have any problem doing it myself.
Yeah I guess as the title of the thread is... Do you think computers encourage risky diving in new / young divers?
Not sure what they mean by young divers? 14 years old?
Simply if I was with a novice or "new" they would be OW limited to max 18m depth and often diving at 15m or less. Yes there are AOW divers with no more than a total of 20 dives as well who may not have a lot of experience. I meet a lot of them who don't even own a dive computer in Asia. Personally if I owned a dive center I would make it mandatory that all divers rent a dive computer if they don't own one. Also a pre dive briefing can certainly explain what NDL is and what the dive centers policy on how much NDL time they should have at a minimum, such as 5 minutes or more.
I do feel that sometimes the threads get off topic as people here are generally diving a lot or are more experienced we do not really see many novice divers on the forums here. Sometimes the discourse starts with a simple title like the one for this thread, but soon people are then discussing exceeding NDL, deep dives, deco dives, tech dives, using re-breathers and everything else that a new diver is not doing.