printable copy of dive tables?

[boulderjohn]

What I can tell you with absolute certainty is that computers fail. All. The. Time.

So they fail "All. The. Time." I have led a charmed life, apparently. I bought my first computer back in the last millennium, and not only have I never personally experienced a computer failure, I have never been on a dive in which any other computer failed (to my knowledge).

 

[Stoo]

Same.

So they fail "All. The. Time." I have led a charmed life, apparently. I bought my first computer back in the last millennium, and not only have I never personally experienced a computer failure, I have never been on a dive in which any other computer failed (to my knowledge).

Wow... That's actually pretty amazing especially since I know you dive a fair bit. I've baked two Shearwaters in the last two years, one more two years before that, and countless (Ok, I think 3 or 4) pucks of various brands, and an Aladdin Pro way back when. I also drove over an Aladdin with a Tahoe and a boat trailer but I don't suppose that counts as a failure.

I don't think I'm hard on my stuff, but it does get a lot of use. The three Shearwaters all just died from known issues. (Two were replaced for free, the third "at cost" which I couldn't really complain about. None of them died while I was diving. The pucks simply started displaying giberish mid-dive. They were so unreliable I always wore two. The Aladdin pro had issues with the battery connection when it was well past being serviceable.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Dive watches, depth gauges, bottom timers, and last but not least your brain, can all fail too.
I don’t think the failing dive computer is a good argument.

 

[boulderjohn]

None of them died while I was diving.

I got a UWATEC puck on a keyman discount about 20 years ago. I used it as a backup. The battery kept dying in between dives, and it was not user-replaceable. I finally put it in a drawer and forgot about it for a while before taking it to a ScubaPro dealer to see what could be done. (I was no longer working for a ScubaPro shop.) He told me it had been recalled for the battery issue. I should have been notified (I wasn't), and I should have replaced it before the time for that recall expired.