Planning and executing dives with V Planner

[Dr. Lecter]

OP has been asking a lot of questions here that pretty clearly show they're planning (sort of) and executing (kinda) relatively mild deco dives without really understanding what they're doing. They also appear to be trying to figure out how to wrangle the gear necessary for more significant deco dives, like figuring out how a leash works.

SB is a pretty good resource and far be it from me to say someone needs to follow a specific training path before going over NDLs...but given the questions being posed, at this rate I think the OP is in the running for a Darwin Award in the next year or two.

 

[Diver0001]

I hope your wrong.

I don't see anything wrong with asking the question or getting a straight answer when you do. For the OP's sake I hope he gets training before he starts doing any deco diving. With this kind of thing the devil is in the details and no matter how good the information is online, it's seldom 100% complete or accurate.

R..

 

[ajduplessis]

OP has been asking a lot of questions here that pretty clearly show they're planning (sort of) and executing (kinda) relatively mild deco dives without really understanding what they're doing. They also appear to be trying to figure out how to wrangle the gear necessary for more significant deco dives, like figuring out how a leash works.

SB is a pretty good resource and far be it from me to say someone needs to follow a specific training path before going over NDLs...but given the questions being posed, at this rate I think the OP is in the running for a Darwin Award in the next year or two.

ditto

 

[OMANDIVER]

OP, my experience is that one needs to be taught how to use V planner and indeed that is the strong advice of the designer. It isn't a software programme you buy out of the box and just use like something sold by Apple. Hence the disclaimer which is worth reading in full, I have highlighted the last paragraph.

This V-Planner generated dive schedule could indirectly kill you.
The author does not warrant that it accurately reflects the Varying
Permeability Model algorithms, that it won't get you bent or dead, or that it
will produce safe, reliable results. This dive schedule is experimental
and you use it at your own risk. Diving in general is fraught with
risk, and decompression diving adds significantly more risk.
Deep diving utilizing multiple gasses, including Helium, is about
as risky as it gets.


This schedule is not intended for uneducated users. V-Planner and the
decompression schedules it produces are tools for experienced mixed-gas
decompression divers ONLY. If you have not been properly trained in
mixed-gas decompression diving by an internationally recognized technical
certification agency and/or don't have a firm handle on decompression
planning and mixed-gas diving, then DO NOT USE THIS DIVE SCHEDULE.

 

[rossh]

#1 Answered by others
#2 Its there to get your ascent back onto the full minute rounding boundary, and back in sync with your bottom timer (which usually only shows whole minutes).
#3 Plan the segment with descent time included, always. Change the bottom segment time to get the desired on bottom time after the descent completes.

 

[boulderjohn]

#1 Answered by others
#2 Its there to get your ascent back onto the full minute rounding boundary, and back in sync with your bottom timer (which usually only shows whole minutes).
#3 Plan the segment with descent time included, always. Change the bottom segment time to get the desired on bottom time after the descent completes.

Just as a point of information for readers who don't know, Ross is the V-Planner creator.