Will Air Integration in dive computers replace the SPG?

[CuzzA]

I find quite the opposite. My dives thus far have been heavily task loaded, plus I'm a new diver. My dives have been spearfishing, video and commercial live rock aquaculture and I have found once adding the AI it removed one physical task from my dive and that is to physically use a hand that may be occupied to check my gas on an SPG. Also, another great benefit to AI that hasn't been mentioned is the aquaculture site sometimes literally has less than a foot of viz. It is ten times easier reading gas pressure when you can put your wrist up to your mask compared to bowing your head and pulling the SPG up to your face.... While kicking in a current, feeling your way around the rock and managing 16 nets on lines and buoys. I will admit, this is not my operation and I simply help out and mostly do the heavy lifting topside (Price to pay to dive his site). The owner/friend does most of the work. He however is old school and scuba is work and computers cut profits. So he's not using AI or a computer for that matter.

 

[Bennno]

Would fiber ever replace the two copper conductors that no longer run to my house? Ask the biggest of the big boys, Bell Tel.

That's a false analogy. Fiber is better than copper, obviously. AI is in no way better than a SPG. Why do you guys think that most experienced divers, including cave divers, tec divers and rebreather don't want AI?

 

[lowviz]

First, I disagree. But no matter, so do you.

Second, I haven't heard one rec diver trying to take away your SPG. What is your issue with us?

 

[Bennno]

No issue. I'm just telling you that AI won't replace SPGs. AI has been around for almost 20 years and I don't think it's more popular now than it was in the 90s, because it doesn't really improve anything. Looking at your SPG is really not much of a hassle. 'Copper-internet' is a major PITA compared to broadband.

 

[lowviz]

Precisely.

I'm not about to give up my SPG either. It just works and the hose is a "nothing". However, others dive differently and I am the very last person to tell them what they should do once they have given me a solid reason for why they want to dive that way.

I sense some open-mindedness in your last post, kudos.

Now help me synch my SPG with my DC's post-dive info...

 

[Bennno]

Just to be clear, I don't think AI is dangerous or has no place in the marked. If you like it, go for it. Nothing wrong with that. I just don't think AI is gonna replace SPGs like the OP suggested.

 

[lowviz]

Neither do I.

 

[dumpsterDiver]

Don't know joe..

 

[CuzzA]

No issue. I'm just telling you that AI won't replace SPGs. AI has been around for almost 20 years and I don't think it's more popular now than it was in the 90s, because it doesn't really improve anything. Looking at your SPG is really not much of a hassle. 'Copper-internet' is a major PITA compared to broadband.

See, I disagree again. Just about every computer manufacturer is offering wireless AI. Hell, there's an ad on SB offering the transmitter for free. I haven't been diving as long as some of you guys so I don't know what was offered 20 years ago or if it was wireless or reliable, but it's being heavily marketed today and it's obviously a hot button topic given the replies in the current AI threads.

The copper/fiber optic point is interesting, because we also have to add wireless satellite data transfer into that conversation too.

Someone once said...

There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States." - T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, in 1961

And here we are... Communicating trillions upon trillions of info via wireless satelite messages, phone calls, gps, radio, television, etc.

 

[lowviz]

Craven! OMG, you have to be baiting me.

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash from the deck of the USS Petrel...

Fabulous story, math.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_search_theory