Yep, building it into a mask is a terrible idea since masks have to actually fit you'd have to make a thousand different versions.Oceanic DataMask, now defunct
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Yep, building it into a mask is a terrible idea since masks have to actually fit you'd have to make a thousand different versions.Oceanic DataMask, now defunct
don't think I ever said I check based on gut feelings. I use the cave markers to estimate time if I'm not looking at my computer. If I'm looking at my computer, then I when I see certain time intervals, I will validate my gas and make any adjustments to the time interval after that.
I am not going to argue with you if this system is reliable or not here but you should realize that this is a "Basic Scuba Discussions" forum and to say what you said is extremely dangerous to say the least for novice and even mid-level recreational divers???
It is extremely dangerous for him to say that he checks his SPG when he hits line arrows in a cave? I think you are being a little extreme..
In one of my tech diving classes, that is pretty much what the text said. You have planned your dive and know you have plenty of gas to do the dive, unless something unusual happens. You check your spg occasionally to make sure nothing unusual is happening.With proper gas and dive planning, you should only be validating the gas that you have at certain intervals and adjusting accordingly, not planning your dive based on how much gas you have left.
As others have pointed out, many people dive with an spg attached at the hip and a computer on the wrist. The computer on the wrist can be accessed at a glance. The spg on the hip takes a bit more effort.@tbone1004 How do you know how much time has passed for you to check your gauges and to actually know the time for checking?
Depends on how you define "fairly experienced". I've logged somewhere between 500-600 dives at my local mudhole ... probably enough that I'm on a first-name basis with most of the local critters. I have maybe a half-dozen preferred dive profiles ... and can tell you within maybe 100 psi and two or three minutes what my gauges will tell me at any given point based purely on where I am at the time. What I'm doing amounts more to a sanity check than providing me with anything other than what I would already know ...This is - IMO - what we who think we're fairly experienced should be aware of. How do we know if it's a familiar dive where we can forget checking our gauges, and how do we know it's an unfamiliar dive where we should check more often? That's a danger of moderate experience, IMO.