On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:38:51 -0500, Jarrod Jablonski wrote:

>Below is a quick Bakers on computers. Can anyone come up with additional 
>issues?

Perhaps the most important issue which seems to have been overlooked is
that electronics can and will fail at any time, and if you are relying
upon a computer for your decompression profile you are up the
proverbial creek without a paddle.  An electronic bottom timer / depth
gauge, while statistically just as likely to fail, provides you with
depth and time information as accurate as the last time you looked at
it, which can then be used to calculate a profile.  Since you really
need to carry the tables (or understand deco well enough to calculate
on the fly) anyway, the computer becomes an unnecessary redundancy.

-Sean



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