NudeDiver
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Oh no!! Looks like I'm goin' down for sure!!All I can say is best wishes on your future dives.....as to sarcasm it can be almost as damning as complacency in diving.
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Oh no!! Looks like I'm goin' down for sure!!All I can say is best wishes on your future dives.....as to sarcasm it can be almost as damning as complacency in diving.
I was logging some dives off my computer and I came across these 2 dives.
#1 53ft for 1:02
#2 1:33 SI then 52ft for 56min.
the computer had no problems with them. If I had been using the tables i would not have done the second dive.
So how do you do it in the real world, obviously there is a huge multilevel benefit in these dives but to be able to use it I would have had to keep a slate of all my actual depths and times. Is there any system people have when diving multilevel to keep up with all the depths and times? I like tables, I want to use them, I do not have 100% faith in my computer.
old school wisdom was that you could not get in trouble under 60 ft with an 80cf tank and at least 1-2 hours SI. obviously not so.
Any diver worth his fins keeps track of their dive profile....pretty basic stuff!
au contraire mon fraire
"Any diver worth his fins keeps track of their dive profile....pretty basic stuff! "
Ok how? how do you keep track of the various depths and times at those depths?
I suspect you mean with that "third sense" where, much like you could recall in your mind the lefts and rights you made in driving to the store, you could sketch out an approximate profile of your dive. That's quite different from what the OP was talking about with keeping notes about depth and dive time on a slate every few minutes. I don't know anyone who does that and it would significantly detract from the dive.