I have a hard time seeing this being a real problem.  Your biggest problem
at that point would seem to be figuring out where to do your deco stops.  Of
course, your buddy still has a perfectly good working bottom timer so they
should be able to figure things out in terms of both what deco to do and
where to do it, no?

Miranda

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Wright [mailto:paul@ca*.co*.uk*]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 9:02 AM
> To: Sean T. Stevenson; Jarrod Jablonski; techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Cc: quest@gu*.co*
> Subject: Re: computers? 1 depth gauge, 2 time keepers, your mother in
> law...
> 
> 
> > >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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