Backup computer for when your main fails while in diving trip ?

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I do think it is kinda funny that people seem fine carrying no scuba redundancy and relying on a buddy for air should a problem occur, but seem so uncomfortable with using the buddy’s computer as a guide to finish out the dive. Seems like relative risk is lopsided to me.
I believe in both cases--when one diver is OOG or has a computer failure--the conventional wisdom is to end the dive in a controlled but expedient manner. That said, I have seen divers, even divemasters, have the OOG diver remain on their donated reg for a LOT longer than just to end the dive. It seems par for the course that we would also see a diver rely on their buddy's computer a lot longer than just to end the dive.

I think many people in this thread are more concerned about what to do for "repetitive diving" than how to finish out the current dive when a computer malfunctions. There is no repetitive diving concern in an OOG scenario, so it makes sense to me that more people would be fine with relying on air-sharing to finish out a dive when OOG than to rely on computer-sharing when a computer malfunctions.
 
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