How do you dive?

[PBcatfish]

In the old days, it was a Princeton Tec bottom timer, depth gauge & tables.
These days, it depends where I am diving.
For shallow dives, not expected to exceed 30 feet with no diving planned for the next day, I just carry a depth gauge to confirm my depth.
For dives to less than 50 feet on air with no diving planned for the next day, I normally carry a depth gauge & watch then work off tables if need to do a second dive that day.
For dives to 100' on air or Nox with no deco planned, I carry a computer & a depth gauge/watch for a back up, so that at least I can time a safety stop at known depth if the computer fails.
For deeper dives & dives where I think that deco is a possibility, I bring the above rig plus a second computer. If the two computers start telling me significantly different things, I abort the dive. If they disagree by a minute or two, I go with the more conservative number.

...and a SPG with every rig

 

[Satrekker]

updated recently. 2 AI comps - Perdix AI + Teric. Love em! I do carry a backup transmitter and bng spg backup in save a dive kit.

 

[NothingClever]

Left wrist = Shearwater Perdix, non-AI
Right wrist = BT + deco slate

 

[scubadada]

59 additional responses since last update:

 

[scubadada]

20 additional responses in the last 3 months. Poll was started 10/27/18. You are free to change your vote if you have changed your configuration, I have

 

[Celt]

Tables timer and spg for everything, if I could come up with a ratio deco that would suit me I’d ditch the tables.

 

[Bigbella]

Some of this strikes me as a bit of overkill. I have been diving since the late 1970s, and virtually every urgent or emergency situation that I have been witness to, involved those dilettante "gear heads" who bought the whole catalogue -- with an interminable web of clusters**kery on both wrists; monitors in their masks; side-slung bailout bottles half their size; extra gauges and hoses -- all mired in the kelp beds.

More often than not, they are also the turtles that I have had to right, in the beach break, on any number of occasions, in Carmel, and points south.

Keep it as simple as possible . . .

 

[scubadada]

Hey @Bigbella

No judgment being made here, just a simple request for how you dive. As you see tables/timer/depth gauge/SPG is included. I hope you entered your configuration in the poll, along with the other more than 450 divers who have done so.

Very best and good diving,

Craig

 

[Diver-Drex]

Two Perdix and spgs on every reg for almost all of my diving. If I’m on a family trip and looking for a single tank or two tank trip I’ll just take my Zoop My ‘vacation’ regs have an spg and depth gauge. I wear a watch as a backup.

 

[Panther1880]

In OW I take a SPG and a scuba pro 330 bottom timer with me. In cave I use my xdeep bottom timer. In OW I keep the xdeep in my pocket. I enjoy looking at the graphs of the xdeep after the dive... But in sunlight the display is washed out.