I can sort of see Tom's point, not that its a great one.
Suppose you plan your tables for a dive on a wreck
at 180' but end up spending half your bottom time 
swimming around the superstructure at 160' or so.  
Following the tables would not account for the reduced
deco time that the computer would be able to calculate
on the fly.

Still should never be used as a crutch for the untrained
but it would have some benefit.

-K



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*>
To: Z <mzurl@be*.ne*>; <FLTechDiver@mikey.net>; Tech Diver
<techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: Trimix Computers


> You did not get my point. With a laptop computer and a tables program like
> decoplanner, you can spend hours before the dive analysing different
> profiles, deco gasses, bailout situations, etc.
> 
> You also learn your personal tolerances and can account for these as well.
> 
> And don't tell me you can do this worth a crap with a wrist unit.
> 
> By the way, check out this little tidbit:
> 
> IANTD(UK) is run by Kevin Gurr http://www.iantd.com/iantd-uk.html
> he gets  bucks for every IANTD card sold & is Toms right hand man.
> 
> VR3 POS is made by the very same guy http://www.vr3.co.uk/
> (look at the phone number on the Left & the Phoenix logo)
> 
> I have been reliably informed that all IANTD Trimix courses in the UK,
> promote the VR3 as the way to dive trimix - no doubt the instructor gets a
> kick back on every VR3 sold.
> 
> Tom obviously got a copy of free ones.
> 
> My, we are an incestuous little group, aren't we?
> 
> > Jim
> > IANTD does not have a contract with any manufacture
> > in anything other than training issues and even there it is just agreements
> > to provide training programs on whatever it is
> 
> Tom, your audience is not composed entirely of idiots, although it appears
> that you assume this is the case.
> 
>    Jim
> 
>  -------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/
> 
> > From: "Z" <mzurl@be*.ne*>
> > Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:38:37 -0400
> > To: <FLTechDiver@mikey.net>
> > Subject: RE: Trimix Computers
> > 
> > "I can see absolutely no reason to use a trimix dive computer ..."
> > 
> > Hey, wait a minute, where did you get your paper schedules from?  Wasn't it
> > a computer?
> > Couldn't moving that computer to your wrist be used to advantage?
> > 
> > Z
> > 
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