What would you do if your computer died?

[NAM001]

all the averaging of tables and crap is too complex. . I would
a. if i was in a low group ..get another computer and make the dive as if it were the first dive of the day and be conservative, if necessary increase the si to do so.
b. skip the dives for the rest of the day and get the puter fixed or replaced and start over the next day.
c. use my buddies data and work the tables and go from there.

of course if the first dives had a high cost, (deep, close to deco) you just end the days diving.

will probably take a flame for this but few usefully document thier dives and few use tables,
the only way to proceed is to reconstruct the prior dives or quit for the day.

reconstruction is no less accurate or safe than tabling with square profiles, using puters with conservative factors enabled ect. if one has a computer and you can get the profile out of it then you can turn it into a square profile and table the past dive. many people i have been with do not use computers at all. the thought is that if the site is a shallow site then the ndl is (sarcastically) days. and they will run out of air before running out of ndl.

Of course tehr is the most logical action and that is to carry a backup computer. the cheapest on the market to reconstruct from.

 

[themagni]

When you are pushing it and **** happens, you need to work real hard to stop pushing it. Was that not an option?

Don't know what to tell you man, it seemed reasonable at the time.

The thread starter asked what would happen. I found out what can happen -- the hard way -- and there's no reason for them to have to learn the hard way when I'm right here.

FWIW, and since the linked thread is like 400 posts long, it was my first dive vacation ever, my first vacation in 14 (fourteen) years, and after several hours of travel to the dive site. (Twenty+ if you include the flight from home.)

 

[DiveNav]

..........You're at a dive resort for a week and you get 5 days of unlimited dives- for you, that's about 5 per day. It's the middle of the 2nd dive and your computer runs out of battery. You surface, slowly and safely with your buddy, with no incident. You're now back at the resort about to have lunch with 2 afternoon dives and a night dive planned...

What do you do? ......

Since I had my bluebuddy with me, I just use my smartphone and the My bluebuddy App to retireve the dive profiles and to plan the next multi-level dive

Repeat the process after each dive.

Alberto (aka eDiver)

 

[rhwestfall]

Since I had my bluebuddy with me, I just use my smartphone and the My bluebuddy App to retireve the dive profiles and to plan the next multi-level dive

Repeat the process after each dive.

Alberto (aka eDiver)

Only after you release the Android version...... please hurry. I would have bought in quickly.

P.S. - need "average depth" output for those of us still validating with tables....

 

[DiveNav]

Only after you release the Android version...... please hurry. I would have bought in quickly.....

We are waiting for Android to release a stable API for Bluetooth 4.0 LE ..... meanwhile we found a couple of libraries and it looks like that we might have a beta of the Android App just in time for when bluebuddy will become available

.....P.S. - need "average depth" output for those of us still validating with tables....

Already planned for it (and the Estimated Pressure Group feature too) ... see updates

Alberto (aka eDiver)

 

[scubadada]

Not complicated, I'd switch from my air integrated primary to my backup computer and SPG. Nothing lost, not a single dive.

Good diving, Craig

Sorry I did not reread the thread, including my own response. The answers to this queston are intuitively obvious.

Good diving, Craig