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In a message dated 6/14/00 6:44:14 AM, thomas@ha*.ne* writes: << You don't need it, you don't take it. So just explain to me why I need a dive computer Scott... >> In a previous message thomas@ha*.ne* wrote: << As a matter of fact I can guarantee you that even accepting their stuff without thinking will highly improve your diving. >> In a previous message dated 6/13/00 4:23:10 PM, Scott Bonis@ao* answered, > While I believe that DIR is based on solid reasoning and experience, I'm > really sorry Thomas, but I cannot accept this concept. It is so far > diametrically opposed to anything I would ever consider, that it > is out of my realm of experience. I must convince myself that what I am accepting as > truth is indeed valid. Without this, I believe I would be no more than a > lemming. Remember, this is diving, not a religion. << Then dive. THOMAS >> Hi Thomas, Thanks for responding to my message. But I'm afraid we have the situation all twisted around here. As I said in a previous post, I am the one who decides what I need. That means not you, not George Irvine, not J. J., not Michael J. Black, not Tom Mount, not Bret Gilliam, etc. They can all recommend, suggest, cajole, demand, request, etc., and I'd certainly be a fool not to listen and evaluate, but ultimately the decision of what I take is mine. There is no way on this green earth that I (or I imagine any other intelligent thinking human being) would ever give up this choice. After all, it's my life we're talking about here. If I should decide at some time in the future that wrist computers had reached a state of maturity where I could depend on them, then at that point I might choose to chuck my PC (with Decoplan loaded into it) in the trash and use only my wrist computer. I believe we're not there yet, but someday (maybe in the not too distant future) we may well be. BTW, the ONLY reason I got a PC in the first place was to run deco programs as I believe a Mac is a far, far superior machine. So I believe one answer to your request << So just explain to me why I need a dive computer Scott... >> is simply that at the present time, I guess you don't need one. But the question is a trick question like "when did you stop beating your wife?" I believe you are assuming that you have prepared for a dive by the present DIR method, have all of your DIR required equipment and then are asking why add something else? Since the DIR method appears to be a complete system, of course nothing else is needed. Otherwise it would not be a complete system. But we're talking here about possibly using a system in the future where we may be able to depend on wrist computers. I learned college physics using a slide rule, but I'd be pretty stupid today to not be using a calculator, let alone a computer. When all your buddies are simply punching bottom depth and gas data into their wrist computers and hopping off the boat, would you like to be the one who is still sitting on the surface cutting tables on a PC and using a depth gauge and a dive watch? Dinosaurs aren't alive today. I also believe that there is another answer to your query << So just explain to me why I need a dive computer Scott... >> It is simply that you may not need it but I want it in order to have additional information available to me during the dive. And when you get right down to it, this is the only reason I need. In a message dated 6/14/00 6:44:14 AM, thomas@ha*.ne* writes: << Then dive. THOMAS >> I do, and I really enjoy it. I probably average 300 to 400 dives a year. In fact after teaching an open water class this afternoon and an extanded range class this evening, tomorrow I am leaving for Fiji for a week of fun diving. Thanks for the recommendation and once again, thanks for responding to my previous posting. You take care now and safe diving, Scott -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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