tables vs. computer on upcoming trip

[Jay_SMART_Diver]

You will lose a crap load of bottom time if you're not diving a computer at the Flower Gardens.

 

[leadweight]

Actually, the dives at the Gardens are the closest thing to a square dive you will find anywhere. You could easily wind up with longer dives using a generous table like the RDP instead of a conservative computer like an M2 or even a Vyper. This would be especially true if you did depth averaging. Just keep to less than 70 feet at the Gardens and don't go deep at Stetson. Make sure that the boat does not impose some arbitrary profile on divers who do not have computers. Its the only place where a DM checked my computer to see if I had gone into deco. (It would not have mattered, with an Aladin the only way to tell is to download it.)

 

[phoenix09]

The computer they're renting me is an Aladin Prime...anyone used this model before?

 

[leadweight]

I have an Aladin Tec. Pretty much the same thing as the Prime with a few extra gizmos. It will give you more bottom time than a Suunto, but not quite as much as an Aeris/Oceanic. Its a good computer.