Going into Deco as Rec Diver

[34109411]

i take a shower with my suunto and go into deco.

i grab the shower pole for 3 minutes after upside down to off gas my wife say i am nuts.

 

[CT-Rich]

I was doing some boat diving with one of my kids. The dive shop had offered me nitrox because they were getting a delivery the next day and I took it. I forgot about that I had set my computer for it and the first boat dive was down to around 50' for about an hour and the second dive was 70' on a artificial sunken tug. They ended up with several minutes at 15' on their Zoop and I still had a quarter hour on my Peregrine.

While recreational divers should avoid it, the whole point of a computer is to avoid mistakes and fix them when they occur.

 

[gamon]

A recreational diver exceeding recreational parameters is as dumb or negligent as a private pilot flying at hypoxic altitudes without O2.

I routinely incur a relatively short (<5 minutes) deco obligation towards the end of many of my dives, it's planned, I have the gas for it as well as the redundancy in a second tank, and while I don't have any formal tech training I do have the experience.

I dive with 3 identical (as in brand and model) computers. The displayed depth differs by about a foot on each one. In many cases I'm a couple of minutes into deco on one of them while the others tell me I've got varying amounts of NDL time remaining. I am only aware of this disparity because I happen to carry multiple computers. How many divers out there are using inaccurate computers and are regularly in deco (without knowing it) and live to tell the tale?

You can live your live according to what is often the arbitrary and meaningless rules designed by others, those that decide to do it their own way and do it in such a way as to mitigate the risks are not necessarily "dumb" or "negligent" as you errantly claim.

 

[Miyaru]

How many divers out there are using inaccurate computers and are regularly in deco (without knowing it) and live to tell the tale?

The majority.
All computers use a predefined algorithm that makes calculations based on time and the readout from the pressure sensor. It is a black-and-white approach. According to the computer, you have a deco obligation or not.
In reality, you're somewhere in the gray area between supersaturation and critical supersaturation.

u can live your live according to what is often the arbitrary and meaningless rules designed by others, those that decide to do it their own way and do it in such a way as to mitigate the risks are not necessarily "dumb" or "negligent" as you errantly claim.

Those arbitrary and meaningless rules designed by others, turn out to be quite meaningful once you understand under which circumstances the rules apply. When you're outside those circumstances, different rules apply.
When the SHTF, it can turn out to be very valuable knowing how to solve problems.

Doing the deco stops as indicated by the computer(s) is one way to dive. I agree that this method can be categorized as "dumb/negligent".

Knowing upfront what your computer will display and why, requires knowledge, giving you a better (contingency-) planning. But yeah, that requires doing a course.....



There is no scuba police down there.
Only Murphy & Mother Nature.
It is time that we all stop acting as natural selection inhibitors.

So when she taps you on the shoulder to whisper in your ear that your number has come up, he might whisper in your other ear that you get a Darwin Award for it.
And we will post a new thread in A&I.