Do you use tables for every dive?

[rhwestfall]

Spectrum is messing with you a bit. He must have had too much coffee this morning....

If it was a PADI class, and they gave you PADI tables, you have an "RDP". Its their acronym meaning "Recreational Dive Planner" as they have named their tables...

 

[spectrum]

Spectrum is messing with you a bit. He must have had too much coffee this morning....

If it was a PADI class, and they gave you PADI tables, you have an "RDP". Its their acronym meaning "Recreational Dive Planner" as they have named their tables...

Ovaltine!

So what do they call that wheel thingy?

Pete

 

[rhwestfall]

So what do they call that wheel thingy?

"The Wheel" - duh!!!!! (marketing must not have been able to come up with a cool acronym).

NAUI came up with DTC (Dive Time Calculator) for their version.....

 

[windapp]

There aren't enough options in the poll. I use tables for a quick reference when I need it, or if I am somewhere without a computer. There are times when it is a lot quicker to use the tables for planning than it is to use the computer. However, for most dives, I pretty much know the rough times, and I let my computer do the calculations.

 

[Insta-Gator]

PDCs are too easy and too accurate to consider using tables. My PDC is also AI so I don't even carry a SPG any longer. The watch on my arm is ..... well, a watch. (PDC will also give me time of day, date)

 

[Scubagolf]

Oops. I voted before reading your post. I have used a computer 100% of my dives for 12 years. I will occasionally run thru the tables as a refresher, but I never use them to actually plan dives.

 

[tracydr]

Back before I got a dive computer, which was a long time ago...
If I were doing a dive beyond 30' in depth. I calculated tables every single time. Unless it was a dive I had done hundreds of times and I knew the depth and run time like the back of my hand.

I don't need to look at tables now to know how long I can stay at 60'.

And these days. I use a computer.

Same here. I didn't have a computer so if I was doing a deeper or longer dive I would plan it with a table prior to getting in the water. Then, I would log my dives after each dive with the tables.
after about 3 years, I finally got my first computer. I've only had three. My second one really shouldn't even count, since I only made about 20 dives with it. I can't decide if I'm going to sell it or keep it as a spare bottom timer.
I recently got a Liquivison Xeo, such a nice computer!

 

[johntclever]

Wonderful to hear. We have made 10 dives with our Atom 3.1 and love it.

For grins and giggles my wife is tracking our pressure group and it is interesting to see how far up we end on the RDP and yet don't show the corresponding level of nitrogen loading in our tissues---guess we are getting lots of credit for the shallow part of our dives.

 

[Bopper]

Didn't read the thread but I've never used tables and can't ever see myself using tables. The PADI book I was taught from had a computer supplement that we studied instead of tables. Yay.:cool2:

 

[johntclever]

Oh so jealous...I wish ours had because i feel it would have been very useful.