IslandCowGirl,
Please, oh please don't take this discussion as attacks....
Ok you've personally experienced a dive computer failure. Most computers if started on the surface (to get an ambient pressure reading as a baseline) won't work if battery power is low, the pressure transducer is kaput, etc. I (and maybe other Scubaboard divers) would like to know what the diagnosis was and why your computer totally stopped working UNDERWATER. By comparison I can tell you one brand of computer that had over 10 million dives on the algorithm, and this was in the early 1990s.....So failures aren't commonplace, especially today....
JAVD likely can't read and comprehend the data underwater even if he has a depth guage and watch. Or tables in his gear bag... He's on vacation AND IS PAYING A DIVEMASTER TO BABYSIT HIM. So he can go have some fun, then go soak up some rays and suck down some Coronas He will use the divemaster's expertise to lead him around keeping him underwater for a safe bottom time. That's what is happening in the real sport diving world.....Everyday....
In my 36 years of being "in the business" I've seen bad PADI, SSI, NAUI, YMCA, NASDS and many, many more stores who are barely hanging on because they just can't balance teaching people to have fun, and then sell them some gear (where a dive store can really only make their money) and then take them diving enough to wear out that gear and buy more. So it ain't about the certification brand or teaching tables versus using a dive computer intelligently. It's about giving your customers what they came into the store in the first place for....Fun, excitement, exploration........Not a PH. D in bubble blowing, data spitting, gear measurbating drivel....
Hey, I need more wine!
All in fun.....
dhaas
Please, oh please don't take this discussion as attacks....
Ok you've personally experienced a dive computer failure. Most computers if started on the surface (to get an ambient pressure reading as a baseline) won't work if battery power is low, the pressure transducer is kaput, etc. I (and maybe other Scubaboard divers) would like to know what the diagnosis was and why your computer totally stopped working UNDERWATER. By comparison I can tell you one brand of computer that had over 10 million dives on the algorithm, and this was in the early 1990s.....So failures aren't commonplace, especially today....
JAVD likely can't read and comprehend the data underwater even if he has a depth guage and watch. Or tables in his gear bag... He's on vacation AND IS PAYING A DIVEMASTER TO BABYSIT HIM. So he can go have some fun, then go soak up some rays and suck down some Coronas He will use the divemaster's expertise to lead him around keeping him underwater for a safe bottom time. That's what is happening in the real sport diving world.....Everyday....
In my 36 years of being "in the business" I've seen bad PADI, SSI, NAUI, YMCA, NASDS and many, many more stores who are barely hanging on because they just can't balance teaching people to have fun, and then sell them some gear (where a dive store can really only make their money) and then take them diving enough to wear out that gear and buy more. So it ain't about the certification brand or teaching tables versus using a dive computer intelligently. It's about giving your customers what they came into the store in the first place for....Fun, excitement, exploration........Not a PH. D in bubble blowing, data spitting, gear measurbating drivel....
Hey, I need more wine!
All in fun.....
dhaas