I have seen on this board that the Suunto is extra conservative. I was wondering what bearing this had from a teaching angle, does it hinder anyone at all.
Cheers,
Ed.
Cheers,
Ed.
Suunto for teaching
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No, it won't hinder you... it is conservative. Not extra or ultra conservative. It will let you get plenty of bottom time and will keep you from killing yourself. I've never been limited by it. If you want to push the limits, its not the computer for you. If you want a great computer to keep you safely within the limits of the avg person's body, choose the suunto. It's not by chance that these are the most popular dive computers out there.
Myths like the suunto being too conservative spread like wildfire on message boards and are at best biased opinions.
Go to suunto.com and do some simulations of your avg. dive day and see what you come up with... its there, its free and you get to have your own opinion instead of someone else's.
Myths like the suunto being too conservative spread like wildfire on message boards and are at best biased opinions.
Go to suunto.com and do some simulations of your avg. dive day and see what you come up with... its there, its free and you get to have your own opinion instead of someone else's.
OP
I actually bought a Cobra a little while ago but haven't had the chance to try it out yet, so I was a little concerned that it might hinder me when I go on to Instructor.
Good to hear it won't.
Ed.
Good to hear it won't.
Ed.
miketsp
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This is not a recommendation on my part and I do not condone the practice but I was chatting with an instructor recently about this and he told me he cheats a little and leaves his in Nitrox mode while diving air but with a setting slightly higher than 21%. In this way he has "tuned" his computer to align with the average result of the other computers in the group he is diving with and the tables his agency recomends.
OP
Thats a useful cheat to know. Might take some testing to make sure things are safe though.
Ed.
Ed.
edneeves:
Just a thought, should you be a victim of an accident your insurance company would be within their rights to refuse coverage to someone who was found "cheating"
hmmmmm
OP
Life's never simple is it!
Ed.
Ed.
MonkSeal
Contributor
edneeves:
This looks to me like diving to satisfy computer which is IMHO not the goal of planning/diving.
What does he get ? Computer shows he's in NDL. So what ?
And if doesn't cheat and he's out of NDL what than ? Will somebody force him out of water ? Is there some kind of NDL police ?
miketsp
Contributor
I should also comment that this was special situation of high volume resort diving repeating up to 5 dives per day from a fixed group of about 20 sites and the operators have years of experience with a large group of DMs and instructors establishing safe profiles. So he applied the fudge factor for use in a more controlled environment only.
Normal diving he reverts to 21%.
Normal diving he reverts to 21%.
miketsp
Contributor
MonkSeal:
He avoids his computer going into ERR on a dive he considers safe based on accumulated experience of many other divers doing that particular profile.
This is not to be taken as a defense of what he is doing.
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