> >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,long snip>

This does rely on you actually accuratley remembering your last time/depth
reading. A possible advert for redundant systems?

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