I was feeling great. I got on the boat, the seas were 1 ft, and I had my gear setup on my tank before we left dock. This is usually the time I set my computer and I completely forgot.
I'm doing a drift dive on Juno Ledge on a boat out of WPB. Max depth was 88ft and my average depth was 70ft. I've dove this profile many times, so I didn't freak out when I looked at my computer 25 minutes in and it said I had a deco obligation. I typically call the dive around 45-50 minutes, but opted to call the dive early (37 min) when I saw some other divers shooting their SMB. I ended the dive with 1200 psi.
On the SI, I was shocked that my computer completely locked me out. It wouldn't let me adjust anything that had to do with diving. So now it's going to just be a depth gauge and bottom timer on the 2nd dive.
I was diving solo this day, but hanging around other divers as to not be completely alone. So on the 2nd dive, I told the DM that I was going to hanging around him and surface when he does. He shows me that he has nothing but a bottom timer... My next thought was that the 2nd dive was going to be interesting . Again, it's a common profile I dive. I just planned to make it a shorter dive than usual.
My 2nd dive had a max depth of 91ft, but I averaged 68ft. I was avoiding the bottom unless I saw something cool since I had no visibility on my NDL. I'm not sure where everyone took off to, but the DM and I found ourselves together without anyone else. So we just went looking for stuff. After 35 minutes he signaled he was ready to go up. I figured it was as good a time as any so I surfaced with him. I surfaced with 1500 psi.
Anyways, back to the topic on hand, why does the computer lock you out? Why am I not able to fix the nitrox mix setting? Is it that users of the computers can't be trusted? That would be ridiculous. I would have been better served if I could have fixed the setting for the previous dive and set it up for the 2nd dive. FWIW, I'm diving with an Oceanic Geo 2. I couldn't even change the dive mode to gauge mode.
Thoughts?
I'm doing a drift dive on Juno Ledge on a boat out of WPB. Max depth was 88ft and my average depth was 70ft. I've dove this profile many times, so I didn't freak out when I looked at my computer 25 minutes in and it said I had a deco obligation. I typically call the dive around 45-50 minutes, but opted to call the dive early (37 min) when I saw some other divers shooting their SMB. I ended the dive with 1200 psi.
On the SI, I was shocked that my computer completely locked me out. It wouldn't let me adjust anything that had to do with diving. So now it's going to just be a depth gauge and bottom timer on the 2nd dive.
I was diving solo this day, but hanging around other divers as to not be completely alone. So on the 2nd dive, I told the DM that I was going to hanging around him and surface when he does. He shows me that he has nothing but a bottom timer... My next thought was that the 2nd dive was going to be interesting . Again, it's a common profile I dive. I just planned to make it a shorter dive than usual.
My 2nd dive had a max depth of 91ft, but I averaged 68ft. I was avoiding the bottom unless I saw something cool since I had no visibility on my NDL. I'm not sure where everyone took off to, but the DM and I found ourselves together without anyone else. So we just went looking for stuff. After 35 minutes he signaled he was ready to go up. I figured it was as good a time as any so I surfaced with him. I surfaced with 1500 psi.
Anyways, back to the topic on hand, why does the computer lock you out? Why am I not able to fix the nitrox mix setting? Is it that users of the computers can't be trusted? That would be ridiculous. I would have been better served if I could have fixed the setting for the previous dive and set it up for the 2nd dive. FWIW, I'm diving with an Oceanic Geo 2. I couldn't even change the dive mode to gauge mode.
Thoughts?