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The American Acadmeny of Underwater Science's Dive Comptuer Workshop was a watershed event. Almost overnight computers went from strange and poorly accepted instruments to, almost, everyday items.
There's been a lot of discussion concerning comptuers in the thread addressing the DAN Diving Fatality Report. Few divers know about the workshop or what went on, so, I'm suggesting that folks read Proceedings of Dive Computer Workshop (it's a free PDF) and then continue the discussion.
Most of the concerns that Ive seen on the board here were hashed over in detail there ( I was there, I can help the discussion along with truth about the booger eating moron comment and such).
Two big concerns at the workkshop were that divers would see computers as table cartoons and thus not learn any decompression theory and that divers would push things to the limit because computers gave them an actual limit that lack the inherent conservatism of time-not-spent-at-depth and tables. Perhaps we might start with those issues?
There's been a lot of discussion concerning comptuers in the thread addressing the DAN Diving Fatality Report. Few divers know about the workshop or what went on, so, I'm suggesting that folks read Proceedings of Dive Computer Workshop (it's a free PDF) and then continue the discussion.
Most of the concerns that Ive seen on the board here were hashed over in detail there ( I was there, I can help the discussion along with truth about the booger eating moron comment and such).
Two big concerns at the workkshop were that divers would see computers as table cartoons and thus not learn any decompression theory and that divers would push things to the limit because computers gave them an actual limit that lack the inherent conservatism of time-not-spent-at-depth and tables. Perhaps we might start with those issues?