Not really, it's just the final entry in every depth column.
Which makes it about 10% of the entire set of three tables and with only a fraction of the processes.
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Not really, it's just the final entry in every depth column.
Which makes it about 10% of the entire set of three tables and with only a fraction of the processes.
In any case, this is pretty irrelevant.
Scuba Diving education is part of the process. Undrstanding the "Tables" is not just for knowing how long a dive may be at a certain depth. It should be a taste of physics. Understanding the fundementals behind tables and computers is a great way to increase dive knowledge and hopefully, creating interets for further dive education and certifications. Here's a "cheers" for the future Dive Master, AIs, and Instrutors, who will keep our sport going...
I sure did... that's the way I do it!Perhaps you noticed in my example above that I taught all that physics before getting to tables or computers. Once I had taught the physics, did it matter what method I taught for measuring it?
I've never seen a diver in over 10 years of diving use a table for diving unless its their OW class and I'm coming across more and more new divers who don't know how to read their own computer or the rental computer.
I think it's time for PADI to reduce the info on tables in the OW book and take out students having to actually learn the table. Leave a page to cover the theory and basic physics so people will understand what it was used for and then cover computer usage alot more.
Divers who dive with computers has drastically increased over the past four years so why not adapt to modern times? What do you think?
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