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Rich Dive computers are a nice bonus and if they work correctly, I for one will follow them where there use is practical. Most open water dives result in tables giving better dive profiles, but in EANx range cave dives I find the bridge gets me out of the water as quick or quicker than tables with oxygen deco, due to multilevel diving. Of course I always have tables with me and check the profiles everydive. Guess my habit is bad as I exit the water by whichever clears first. On a mix dive computer when they are available and especially on closed ?circuit I will definitely use them, again like you I will also carry custiom tables. On the UT, I read the report by trimix and George. We did have the units here and they were assembled on site. They did have problems. Two people outside the divers who were to be trained on them saw them here George Irvine and Bill Mee, Bill states he is not the trimix diver who did the report. When they were here it was explained to them as it was to us, that the "first production run(prototypes as it turns out) did not incopoirate the final electronics configuration. In fact everything that is addressed in the trimix diver post was discussed and we were assured that all those issues were being corrected. All the electronics will(future tense)be sealed off and isolated from the loop. The only thing to be exposed will be the sensors and they are to be repositioned. So assuming these things will happen UT's market systems will not be represented with the problems addressed in trimix divers post. In spite of the systems failure we did put together a really good training program during the second week although we did remain in the pool due to systems failures (electronic). If they do get the electronics up to par with the execellent cannister design this will be a neat system. Billy Deans and I will be diving the 'NEW UT Units within about three weeks. They are also taking them to first the UK for man dives in the chamber and extensive testing then they will go to either Sweden or Finland for cold water and unmanned chamber testing. This testing will be supervised by Dudley Crosson, who does not work for UT and is quite objective about the system. After all this, the unit plus whatever is modified due to the changes scheduled now and those that may be as a result of the test will go on the market. At that time the system should be looked at and see if it provides the safety each interested diver would like in a closed circuit system. Yes, they were premature getting the system out before it was a finished product, but at least they are holding off marketing until the unit is QA and user ready. When do you think the Cis will be out, I really enjoyed diving on it in January and thought they would already be on the market. Safer diving to you tom
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