Zept
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Hm, yes. Still can't decide whether I missed a trick there. I like my Suunto Vyper, but I'd like it even better if it had a bar graph for N2 loading. Even so, I expect I'd still double-check it against the tables.
Zept
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Hm, yes. Still can't decide whether I missed a trick there. I like my Suunto Vyper, but I'd like it even better if it had a bar graph for N2 loading. Even so, I expect I'd still double-check it against the tables.
Zept
sunshinefishy
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The only time I used the tables was during my OW Class and Check-out dives. After that, I rented a computer to see what it was like to dive with one and loved it so much that I bought my own. I haven't looked back since but I still carry my tables with me all the time (in my log book) in case anything happens to my Suunto Mosquito.
I like the fact that computers give you more bottom time for the reasons that Sharpenu mentioned. I haven't yet planned my dives with it yet but hope to do so soon.
I like the fact that computers give you more bottom time for the reasons that Sharpenu mentioned. I haven't yet planned my dives with it yet but hope to do so soon.
srkdvr
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It was the best thing I have gotten since my new REG's. The tables are good to know (and I believe a must to know), but when you move into the computer world your diving becomes easier (my belief). The last two big dives I did proved it's worth to me. I went 100 feet for 20 minutes, and had a surface interval
of 2 hours then went 103 feet for about 22 minutes and only had to stop once for 2 minutes. Plus I got it prior to a Bahamas trip and seemed like I was under the water every minute of all 6 days I was there.
Rich :mean:
of 2 hours then went 103 feet for about 22 minutes and only had to stop once for 2 minutes. Plus I got it prior to a Bahamas trip and seemed like I was under the water every minute of all 6 days I was there.
Rich :mean:
Zept- "What computer did you get, Kaffphine?"
Mine's a Sunnto Vyper, wrist mount. I love it.
I think I started this thread a week too early! Monday night I decided I was wreck diving in DE on Sunday and with the planning and stuff I need to get done for that haven't had much time to sit on the computer!
Mine's a Sunnto Vyper, wrist mount. I love it.
I think I started this thread a week too early! Monday night I decided I was wreck diving in DE on Sunday and with the planning and stuff I need to get done for that haven't had much time to sit on the computer!
I learned the tables and Wheel during my OW class, when we went diving the instructor was the only one with a dive computer. She showed us how it worked and why it was a great thing to use and I ened up buying the same one later on. Now I just use the tables when teaching... although I always carry a table around with me in case my computer dies on me as well as extra batteries for my computer..
Ryan Stone
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Ryan Stone
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I dove for a year or so on tables and then on a trip to the Caymans, I got sick and tired of always being the first one out of the water with plenty of air in my tank as well.
I got an air only Aladin Sport during the trip. Yes, I know I overpaid by buying it in the islands, but for the extra bottom time the rest of the trip, I felt it was well worth it.
Then about 4 years later (8 months ago) I got a Cochran Comander 2 gas nitrox. It's now got about 30 or so dives on it and I love it.
For single dive days, I usualy don't bother with tables as the diving along the NJ shore doesn't get very deep unless you go out on a boat.
I'll double check tables for multi dive days and always cary them just in case of computer failure but I have yet to have one of those (fingers crossed
).
I got an air only Aladin Sport during the trip. Yes, I know I overpaid by buying it in the islands, but for the extra bottom time the rest of the trip, I felt it was well worth it.
Then about 4 years later (8 months ago) I got a Cochran Comander 2 gas nitrox. It's now got about 30 or so dives on it and I love it.
For single dive days, I usualy don't bother with tables as the diving along the NJ shore doesn't get very deep unless you go out on a boat.
I'll double check tables for multi dive days and always cary them just in case of computer failure but I have yet to have one of those (fingers crossed
).Rockhound
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I learned on the tables back in the mid 70's, then went to one of the old analog "Benzomatic" (pronounced BENDS- O -MATIC) computers in '77 (I still have it, btw-and NO, I never got bent on it, even though we often "pushed the needle" on the thing).
I bought a USD Monitor I around 93', and picked up a cheap little Matrix last year. I've had no training on any of these new digital 'puters, but after reading the instructions, none was needed. I still dive them both, using the Matrix as backup, since the big numbers on the MI is easier to read in dim light (and both are pretty close in algorithms, with the MI being slightly more conservative.)
I am still surprised sometimes, to run across divers who can't read dive tables. I recently observed a couple attempt dive on tables after one of their computers failed and even after trying to show them how, I don' think they figured it out.
I'm pretty sure, they just made the dive on one computer. Perty bad thing to do, but then again, they were pretty poorly trained, IMHO.
On some local trips, especially those to the Flower Gardens, over 110 mi. offshore, computers are a necessity. Table divers are at a real disadvantage since the dives are repetitive and multi-day at depths from 60-100'.
I bought a USD Monitor I around 93', and picked up a cheap little Matrix last year. I've had no training on any of these new digital 'puters, but after reading the instructions, none was needed. I still dive them both, using the Matrix as backup, since the big numbers on the MI is easier to read in dim light (and both are pretty close in algorithms, with the MI being slightly more conservative.)
I am still surprised sometimes, to run across divers who can't read dive tables. I recently observed a couple attempt dive on tables after one of their computers failed and even after trying to show them how, I don' think they figured it out.
I'm pretty sure, they just made the dive on one computer. Perty bad thing to do, but then again, they were pretty poorly trained, IMHO.
On some local trips, especially those to the Flower Gardens, over 110 mi. offshore, computers are a necessity. Table divers are at a real disadvantage since the dives are repetitive and multi-day at depths from 60-100'.
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