@drainaps
I apologise if you feel personally offended. Perhaps I could have worded my comments differently. But in my opinion your statements seem to advocate poor diving practices - especially to the Op who may be a relatively new diver. Its the wrong message to give. Perhaps this wasn't your intention, and while its true I don't know your diving practices, from you comments, it made me wonder and I decided to speak up.
If a dive manufacturer produces a poor quality product which consistently fails and is a risk to divers then yes they should be held accountable. But I believe it is unfair to attack a company and state they are more interested in lawsuits rather than diver safety because they have taken the time, money and resources to develop their algorithm with safety features which they believe reduces the risk of DCS.
You may not agree with their attitude towards diver safety; fair enough. Fortunately there are other options available but let us be clear, there is no dive computer on the market today that will safely get you out of the water no matter what (your words).
As for the instructors in Indonesia, I have already extended my apology. Due to the nature of their work as instructors I can imagine them chasing student divers up and down the water column creating sawtooth profiles and fast ascents. This would be in violation of the Suunto algorithm and the program has a deco stop feature Suunto calls a "mandatory safety stop." If not followed, it doesn't lock up the computer but penalises the diver on subsequent dives. So what the instructors are doing is throwing their computers overboard to complete the mandatory safety stop without them so they don't get shorter NDLs on subsequent dives.
Why do they do this? Perhaps they feel they don't need it or work demands that they have to be topside and therefore can't complete it. I not sure what the health and safety regulations are in Indonesia. I personally wouldn't advocate this practice since again it sends the wrong message; particularly to student divers.
But hopefully
@drainaps we can put aside our differences and if I am ever in Shanghai and we bump into each other, I'll shout you a beer.