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Subject: FW: Poseidon Triton and Uwatec Computers
From: Scot Anderson <pp000082@in*.co*>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 94 07:28:52 PDT
Probably not a bad idea.

On Thu, 11 Aug 94 10:35:00 bst  Hadland Keith wrote:
>
>Scot,
>
>Just checking whether you wanted to post this to techdiver as well...
>
>Keith
>
> ----------
>>From: Scot Anderson
>To: Hadland Keith
>Subject: RE: Poseidon Triton and Uwatec Computers
>Date: Wednesday, August 10, 1994 7:20AM
>
>>WRT the Aladin Air X  - if they're heading for a trimix computer, will they
>>be stopping at Nitrox along the way?  I'd love to have a 'proper' Nitrox
>>comp. - recent posts about the Bridge/Nemesis suggest that they don't
>>present as much deco info as they could.
>
>Much as I like some of the other features of the Nitrox Nemesis, I gotta
>say this is right.  Last weekend I took it out and as it passed thru a 40fsw
>ceiling, it "went into guage mode" meaning it just showed depth, time and
>temperature.  Good thing I was a) diving a profile I had worked out with
>DrX and b) also wearing an Alladin Pro.  BTW it was an air dive.
>That was a very irritating thing for it to do.  And, it stayed that way
>for the rest of the weekend.  OBTW, it's not like bent myself or
>anything.  And it wasn't even all that deep.  I'm pretty well convinced
>that it is a "no-decompression" "sport" diving computer.  With some
>adjustments in calculations for reduced ppN2's, making it a "Nitrox"
>computer.  I was real excited about that unit before I took it on a real
>dive.  Now, I'm looking for something different.
>
>ugh.  Please.  Somebody.  A programmable computer to use for deco?
>

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