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Thomas McDonald wrote:

> There also needs to take into account what I'll call the "lawyer factor". 
Dive
> computers are purposely designed to be more conservative that necessary,
because
> they tend to encourage diving by what the display says, rather than a proper
> plan.  The Cochrans you mention are some of the worst offenders of this.  In
> looking into a trip to Bikini, the local divemaster gives a list of
non-acceptable
> computers ( http://www.rreinc.com/fabioletter.html ).  There's a dead  link in
> this description that used to describe how 100% of the Cochran computers that
> customers brought have failed, giving outrageous deco times like 99 hours or
> displaying no information.  However, when the divemaster brought this to
Cochran's

This seems to be where that link was supposed to go:

    http://www.rreinc.com/Cochran.html

Sean E.

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