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Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 08:28:36 -0500
To: "Paul Wright" <paul@ca*.co*.uk*>,
     "Sean T. Stevenson" ,
From: Jarrod Jablonski <JJ@gu*.co*>
Subject: Re: computers? 1 depth gauge, 2 time keepers, your mother in
     law...
Cc: <quest@gu*.co*>
More likely an advert for paying attention to diving parameters as they unfold.

JJ

At 05:02 PM 3/8/00 +0000, Paul Wright 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,long snip>
>
>This does rely on you actually accuratley remembering your last time/depth
>reading. A possible advert for redundant systems?

Jarrod Jablonski

President-
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