Tec computers

[diver_caanadia]

Hi

I will be conducting my gue tec one class shortly. I am looking at two computers that I may want to purchase. The VR3 mixed gas computer or the Diverite NiTek HE Mixed Gas DiveComputer. Have any of you guys every had hany experience with these computers.

I am a cavediver and i do understand that slates with plans are the most important, I just want to have a backup incase the plan changes or I lose my slate.

Thanks

 

[SLJ]

I wouldn't buy either of those. In tech you will learn to deal with a change of plan if you lose your slate, computer, gases or whatever. You just need two timers and a depth gauge.

 

[WYDT]

SLJ once bubbled...
I wouldn't buy either of those. In tech you will learn to deal with a change of plan if you lose your slate, computer, gases or whatever. You just need two timers and a depth gauge.

I agree! Don't spend the big money on something your instructor is going to tell you that you don't need anyway!

Once you really learn how to do deco you won't need tables or anything... seriously.

Ohh and you really only need one timing device... you're buddy has your backup timer.... although I will admit to wearing a watch as well as my bottom timer usually...

 

[Doppler]

You will not need a computer for mixed gas diving in a cave... or anywhere else. If you lose your Wetnotes (not a slate) then you can either use your backup tables... or as someone has already suggested, learn to wing it with a solid understanding of how the algorithm works to cover your ***

Buy a good digital bottom timer. Then buy a GShock watch. Take the watch off its strap and slip it onto the strap of the digital bottom timer. It's count down stop watch feature is a nice way to let your self know when it's time for an air break during deco.

Another thought... computers are pretty crappy with square profiles and most of the mix depth caves I know in florida --- is that where your class is -- are square-ish... where are you doing it by the way.

DD

by the way, I teach this stuff.

 

[icediver]

You get caught up counting on the computer. Learn to use the soft ware and save your money. Remember to keep it super simple.

T

 

[DIR Tec Diver]

I am so happy to finally see a complete group of highly educated and supportive divers.

Exactly. The best computer you can have while tech diving is your brain. If you do get a computer for other purposes such as rec diving, get a VR3 or Vytec (Vytec is much cheaper and easier to use, but it does not have games to play while doing your deco like the VR3). When doing tech diving use it as a bottom timer.

 

[Pez de Diablo]

DIR Tec Diver once bubbled...
The best computer you can have while tech diving is your brain. If you do get a computer for other purposes such as rec diving, get a VR3 or Vytec (Vytec is much cheaper and easier to use, but it does not have games to play while doing your deco like the VR3). When doing tech diving use it as a bottom timer.

Hmmm, if you are doing rec diving, you won't need to play games while doing a deco stop.

Maybe on a safety stop, if you get bored during the 3 - 5 min.

 

[AquaTec]

diver_caanadia once bubbled...
Hi

I will be conducting my gue tec one class shortly. I am looking at two computers that I may want to purchase. The VR3 mixed gas computer or the Diverite NiTek HE Mixed Gas DiveComputer. Have any of you guys every had hany experience with these computers.

I am a cavediver and i do understand that slates with plans are the most important, I just want to have a backup incase the plan changes or I lose my slate.

Thanks

If you are doing a GUE class, then all the posts above are acurate.


however if you wnat to use the current tecnology then the VR3 is the way to go. i use two of them and would not do any deep diving without them

 

[Doppler]

AquaTec once bubbled...


If you are doing a GUE class, then all the posts above are acurate.


however if you wnat to use the current tecnology then the VR3 is the way to go. i use two of them and would not do any deep diving without them

Not sure that VR3 is really "Current Technology." Sure it's a new product, but the technology behind inwater dive computers is not new and the algorithm is Buhlmann ZHL16 model, which is not "current" (often used, maybe and a great advance in deco theory for its time, but hardly current).

Certainly, if one wants the very latest model in diving computers, the VR3 is the way to go, but that begs the original question...

I would also like to stress the point that regardless of the strong branding that GUE seems to put on any existing technique or concept that has some merit... "It's Ours!!!" The argument against computers for technical diving is not solely a GUE stance... there are many, many experienced divers who suggest computers are ill-advised as a general rule.

DD

 

[AquaTec]

new technology meaning that it uses 10 gasses, and helium

there are only a couple of dive computers doing that, and i believe the VR3 is the best at it.

i agree that there are two camps on the use of computers for tech diving, that is why i suggested that if he is taking a GUE course he not buy the VR3 as that camp is one that does not use a computer for anything more than a bottom timer