Is a Computer essential kit?

[AfterDark]

@AfterDark By that simple logic alone -- would you dive? -- a compressor is not required either. EVERYTHING depends on how long you wish to stay down and at what depth(s). For some choices, a PDC IS required. For others they are not. That's precisely why this thread is still on-going, as the OP hasn't clarified.

@arew+4 expressed it best!
Yes, with thirty feet of vines tied to a floating coconut if need be.

 

[arew+4]

A reg is essential for me I draw the line at "feathering" a valve while trying to breath from it. So judging by your last post a tank is essential or is a long hose is all you'll be needing?

I suppose if there are a sufficient number of coconuts or African swallows that will take to the harness, I could float the compressor and breathe from the long hose hooka style.

 

[tridacna]

To summarise this thread. Here’s where we’re at now:

 

[broncobowsher]

if you went to Truk, and your computer didn't work, would it impact your trip adversely?

Would you be happy cutting your dives short compared with everyone else, who is diving on computer?



The first time I went to the Red Sea on a live aboard. I borrowed a Suunto Solution, (which was worth more than my new drysuit!) If I hadn't had the computer, and had relied on tables, by day three I would have had to miss at least every other dive to get back on the tables!
If you are diving once a year adding a day or two diving to your holiday, then a computer doesn't make economic sense (nor does buying reg's bcd etc). If you are diving regularly, its uneconomic not to have a computer.

But the OP is doing 2 shallow dives a day, not going to Truk.
COMPLETELY pointless to the original question asked.

Back to the OP. I think you could do better with a mechanical pressure gauge and a more basic depth/time measurement. You are paying near computer prices for a near computer.

 

[boulderjohn]

But the OP is doing 2 shallow dives a day, not going to Truk.
COMPLETELY pointless to the original question asked.

Back to the OP. I think you could do better with a mechanical pressure gauge and a more basic depth/time measurement. You are paying near computer prices for a near computer.

There have been nearly 300 posts in this thread. The OP was fully answered on the first page, and that answer has been repeated countless times over the succeeding pages. The OP's response shows he got the message.

Like pretty much all ScubaBoard threads, this was has taken many twists and turns in its long life, sometimes going far from the OP's original question. The post you were quoting was not responding to the OP but to another post.

 

[AfterDark]

It has taken on a life of its own and is growing!!

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

We all must all be incredibly bored.

 

[broncobowsher]

We all must all be incredibly bored.

I know I am. Waiting for the doctor to let me go and play again. ACL repairs are slowwwwww. Once I am allowed to carry dive gear again I'm outa here.

 

[jale]

Examples?

The only procedures I know that have been used with standard tables are not approved by the people who made the tables and other decompression experts.

We have already talked about that...

Your Gradient Factors?

Wow.. and I thought this thread was just a simple question. I love these threads do not get me wrong but I do believe they do go way off on their own little tangents. I'm using 45/95 nothing more nothing less. Your Gradient Factors?

scubaboard.com

You can get the tables there (https://sneti.eu/wp-content/uploads...tion-A-2019-TABLES-dae_20190524_0003_0001.pdf) where you can even get tables for altitude diving (I remember this is something you are interested also) up to 3000 meters (page 50), diving in bentonite at different densities, trimix, heliox, etc...
You also have the BSAC tables mentioned by Gareth...
Of course not many fun-divers care using tables nowadays but a fact is a fact

 

[arew+4]

We all must all be incredibly bored.

I've got six months to kill until Bonaire, I have already spent too much on new photo/video gear. So all I've got left is adding informative and hopefully occasionally funny comments to new threads, and Monty Python references to ones that will not die.