Hello everybody,
As I do my Extended Range Nitrox course, I started experimenting with subsurface's planner. So far I've been keying in different values (depths, times, GFs, gasses etc) and observe the results. For interesting ones, I usually would just print the resulting plan to pdf files so that I can easily compare with each other.
Until this morning I have never saved an actual plan. So far so good. Today I tried to save a dive and I get the following warning in the Notes section:
"DISCLAIMER / WARNING: THIS IS A NEW IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BUHLMANN ALGORITHM AND A DIVE PLANNER IMPLEMENTATION BASED ON THAT WHICH HAS RECEIVED ONLY A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TESTING. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND NOT TO PLAN DIVES SIMPLY BASED ON THE RESULTS GIVEN HERE." !!
This warning comes only when I save a dive/plan. During the planing/printing of dives no such warnings are given - hence I haven't seen this before.
So the question is, is this just a usual liability avoidance thing from Subsurface's creators, or indeed there have been important changes in the implementation of the algorithm recently that haven't been adequately tested yet? If that's the case, it seems that subsurface can only be used in conjunction with other software.
Is this something temporal or ??
I haven't done a real deco dive yet (only simulations so far), but sooner or later I will start planing dives with software and I was hopping to be able to use subsurface for this.
Thanks for any info.
As I do my Extended Range Nitrox course, I started experimenting with subsurface's planner. So far I've been keying in different values (depths, times, GFs, gasses etc) and observe the results. For interesting ones, I usually would just print the resulting plan to pdf files so that I can easily compare with each other.
Until this morning I have never saved an actual plan. So far so good. Today I tried to save a dive and I get the following warning in the Notes section:
"DISCLAIMER / WARNING: THIS IS A NEW IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BUHLMANN ALGORITHM AND A DIVE PLANNER IMPLEMENTATION BASED ON THAT WHICH HAS RECEIVED ONLY A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TESTING. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND NOT TO PLAN DIVES SIMPLY BASED ON THE RESULTS GIVEN HERE." !!
This warning comes only when I save a dive/plan. During the planing/printing of dives no such warnings are given - hence I haven't seen this before.
So the question is, is this just a usual liability avoidance thing from Subsurface's creators, or indeed there have been important changes in the implementation of the algorithm recently that haven't been adequately tested yet? If that's the case, it seems that subsurface can only be used in conjunction with other software.
Is this something temporal or ??
I haven't done a real deco dive yet (only simulations so far), but sooner or later I will start planing dives with software and I was hopping to be able to use subsurface for this.
Thanks for any info.