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false.So this is another very real advantage of having a dive computer. In fact, this is possibly the most important advantage of a computer, since it's something that you can't even approximate with the tables (whereas multi-level diving can be approximated with the eRDPml for example).
Well in this case the DM has done the "planning" hopefully knowing the site and using experience from earlier dives there.Take a typical example of a two tank boat dive in Little Cayman. When you reach the first destination and tie up you get a briefing of the site and then the DM will say something like, "The max depth for this dive is 100 ft. and the dive time will be 50 minutes. Watch your computers and be back on board with 500 psi."
Another Nice Thread!I just bought my first dive computer, haven't used it yet.
I'm not saying it's the right thing to do either.
Another Nice Thread!
Matt, I am sure that you have the answer to your question from some of these excellent posts. ( Fortunately, I have been diving and teaching all weekend so I missed some of the inappropriate posts that were deleted. ) We had students taking Solo, Dive Computer, Nav. and OW.
The dad was taking dive computer training because I had trained him 25+ years ago using the old table. His kids, who were doing their OW's, were being trained using dive computers in their OW. ( Dive tables are explained as a historical way to dive )
We download and analyze every dive ( even pool dives ) after every dive or each day of diving.
We changed to this method in the late (90's).
We do have our students also use DiveNav.
The reason was we could see that we were spending too much time and effort on dive tables, and not preparing our student for real life diving.
Today almost all rec. divers use computers. We have required dive computers on our trips since 1990.
Do you think you would have been better off learning how to use a dive computer from day one?