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Geir Johannessen writes:
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> Computer divers would like to tidy up their stories too. But, it is a lot 
> harder. When that little gadget recalls the latest dive, maximum depth 
> will be displayed as well as dive time. Some will recall the profile 
> also. Negative attributes are much harder to conceal. In effect, computer 
> divers will have to admit the true colors of their dive, while table 
> divers can go on lying about it. 

I believe all of us should insist that computer manufacturers add true
profiling capabilities to their computers.  Don't buy a computer which
cannot log the actual profile and surface intervals of your last
several dives, not just max depth and time.

Max depth and time, even when reported accurately, is only an
insignificant amount of information when you're talking about
multi-level, prolonged diving.  Data about actual dive profiles and
surface intervals are vital to the improvement of dive tables: we need
both data in which persons were bent, and data in which they weren't.

We, the technical diving community, have a special responsibility to
provide real field data from which the scientific community can build
decompression models.  That data is terribly lacking today.

I believe each of us has a responsibility to use only profiling dive
computers, and report our dive data so that it can be used by others.

Cheers,

David Story                        NAUI AI Z9588, PADI DM 43922, EMT
story@be*.wp*.sg*.co*		  Better diving through computers.

PS: DAN is currently maintaining such a repository, and I know of at
least one manufacturer (Orca/EIT) which routinely uploads the profile
information to DAN's database.

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