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As most of the diving done by the people I dive with is around the UK coast, with tides almost always running during deco, this type of kit should, in my opinion be carried in duplicate as well as the ultimate of tables, mechanical guage ond watch if you want a belt and braces situation. If you have ever tried staying close enough to read someone else's dials for forty plus minutes in a two knot plus current under a deco bag then you would perhaps consider replicating timers, guages and computers. This may not be DIR when in a cave, but it is very comforting in 2 metre visibility in the English channel in February. ----- Original Message ----- From: Miranda Alldritt <MirandAl@At*.co*> To: 'Paul Wright' <paul@ca*.co*.uk*>; <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Cc: <quest@gu*.co*> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 9:20 PM Subject: RE: computers? 1 depth gauge, 2 time keepers, your mother in law... > 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? > > > > -- > > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to > > `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to > > `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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