Alucard
Contributor
I have a question for all of your familiar with the Uwatec Smart COM. I am a beginning diver and want to make sure that I am as safe as I can while still enjoying my diving.
So I was pretty impressed with the Microbubble feature on the SmartCOM - essentially during a week of diving, you "up" the level of microbubble so that the system starts adding in deep safety stops to your profile (allowing time for them in the Remaining bottom Time - RBT calculation)
Here's what is confusing me, though - what I do NOT want to do is to go outside my No-Deco time. If I have the microbubble level set above 0, and I start to dive, at some point it starts telling me that I am going to need a deep safety stop because of the microbubbles and how long and at what depth. So far so good. What I do NOT see, once that has kicked in, is any information about how much no-deco dive time I have left.
(For the record, I usually add several minutes to safety stops and do not dive even close to no-deco limits - I am too paranoid to take risks at this stage in my diving)
Hope I have explained my question clearly enough. If not, please ask questions. Would appreciate any help anyone can give me on how to use this feature to be a safer diver.
Thanks
So I was pretty impressed with the Microbubble feature on the SmartCOM - essentially during a week of diving, you "up" the level of microbubble so that the system starts adding in deep safety stops to your profile (allowing time for them in the Remaining bottom Time - RBT calculation)
Here's what is confusing me, though - what I do NOT want to do is to go outside my No-Deco time. If I have the microbubble level set above 0, and I start to dive, at some point it starts telling me that I am going to need a deep safety stop because of the microbubbles and how long and at what depth. So far so good. What I do NOT see, once that has kicked in, is any information about how much no-deco dive time I have left.
(For the record, I usually add several minutes to safety stops and do not dive even close to no-deco limits - I am too paranoid to take risks at this stage in my diving)
Hope I have explained my question clearly enough. If not, please ask questions. Would appreciate any help anyone can give me on how to use this feature to be a safer diver.
Thanks