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At 08:54 PM 3/5/2001 -0500, Charles Roth wrote:

Hello Charles,

>I do have a bottom timer. I use a Vyper in gauge mode as my primary gauge 
>and have a OMS(aka-Uwatec) as my backup. Unfortunately, both of these timers 
>only count in full minute increments.  My deco program (Abyss RBGM) has 30 
>second intervals on it's deco stops.

I don't know where to begin here.

Decompression timed to the second is overkill on the order of
threading a needle with a sledgehammer.  You *do not* need to do
this to effectively decompress.  All the models are just educated
guesses to start with anyway.

Did your instructor suggest that timing deco to the second was
necessary?  If so, I'd question everything else he taught you.

Believe me, timing deco to the second even remotely necessary.

-Mike Rodriguez
<mikey@mi*.ne*>
http://www.mikey.net/scuba
Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n

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