Efficient way to take your dive plans from the PC to the water

[ucfdiver]

I would like to play with it

 

[rlynch]

we are moving twords keeping 2 copies of the deco plan handy (each) one on a wrist slate which is the main plan, + 5 min plan, Lost gas, and 1 minute bail out. The same plan goes in the clear pocket on the wetnotes stored in a pocket. Why the wrist slate you may ask?, simple if your 20 miles offshore, and you start ascending in ripping current you should limit your distractions to an absolute minimum. If you can glance over at the runtime deco plan without introducing the possibility of letting go of the line your much better off or dropping your wetnotes. Or is the hook breaks and your doing an ascent on your lift bag which is tied into the wreck your going to have your hands full. We just hand write them since we may switch wrecks depending on conditions - printing out a bunch of plans you don't use is a not a good use of time. obviously this is not for caves (just write them in your wetnotes) or live boat dives (we do not do a lot of that here in NC)

 

[gekodivebali]

to me the act of writing on slates can be useful for checking for mistakes one more time.
You do see divers that end up with messy/unreadable garbage, but this works for me for simple and relatively short dives.

 

[miketsp]

Now that home laser printers are getting more popular, laser transparencies are a simple solution:

Amazon.com: 3M Laser Transparency; B & W CG3300 50/BX [PRICE is per BOX]: Electronics

 

[HIGHwing]

Now that home laser printers are getting more popular, laser transparencies are a simple solution

Excellent idea. I know exactly how I'm going to implement. I have the "last page" of my slate dedicated to the "deco missed/violation" rules and it eventually gets pretty soggy over a period of time. The transparency option has to be more stable.

 

[superspeed]

Sharpee marker on the slate. Very hard to remove while diving and spray on sunscreen will melt it right off after the dive, or Mr. Clean Magic Eraser and some time.

Page 1 - Dive plan
Page 2 - just deeper J longer (I do these as one plan, worst case it adds a few min of deco)
Page 3 - Lost gas (Or on page 2 if its a smaller dive and it fits with JD/JL)