If the Galileo Sol--mentioned several times here--is so great in this "data geek" niche, why do you guys want Shearwater to try to compete? Does Galileo customer service suck? Are they not as reliable as you'd like?
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Not checking gas is a matter of situational awareness. Maybe a bit of foresight and forward planning.
Using an SPG is a matter of muscle memory development and ingrained, habitual task performance.
AI prevents you having to develop those instinctive, intuitive skills.... and compensates for low situational awareness. It's nice quick fix. It doesn't aid development though... and neither does it make you a safer, more competent or aware diver.
The way I interpret some of these 'benefits' seems to amount to "my situational awareness is easily degraded, I can use technology to compensate for this inherent weakness in my diving skillset".
At one time, BMW was adamant about not putting cup holders in it's cars. Customers in the US market spoke out, and ultimately, BMW "caved in" and put cup holders in it's vehicles. Integrity wasn't sacrificed, BMW purists "got over it", and BMW sales grew and continue to grow, and remains one of the best and most profitable car companies on the planet, if not the most profitable. Just because the feature is included doesn't mean you have to use it. Not to mention, the cars computer calculates "gas usage in real time". Go figure, the horror !!! The ultimate DRIVING machine, and the ultimate DIVING machine. Just sayin'. Put wireless AI in there, and be done with it. Again, Shearwater you're leaving money on the table.
In order to improve the algorithm (VBM for example)you would need internal sensors your body that provided the information (the size of the nitrogen bubbles, tissue density, etc) the algorithm uses to calculate. That is the only way to improve it.
Interpreting information is complicated, unclipping and clipping an SPG is not. It's an unconsious thing you do and is totally automated. Same as wrist movemment. SPG or AI does not matter in that sense.Nobody is saying they want to not check gas. They are saying they want to check it via a quick glance at the wrist instead of the more complicated maneuver required to check a gauge clipped to their waist.
It's not an issue because your drysuit inflator is connected on the chest on the right. The SPG hose does not come under your left arm when clipped away. So no issue. BTW, how often did you have a emergency ike this?Which is safer in an emergency? Having 2 hoses coming under your left arm and having to grab the right one to disconnect it? Or having 1 hose coming under your left arm (because instead of the other you have a hoseless connection to an SPG on your wrist) and having to disconnect it?
Or, alternate question, why is this not an issue?
If the Galileo Sol--mentioned several times here--is so great in this "data geek" niche, why do you guys want Shearwater to try to compete? Does Galileo customer service suck? Are they not as reliable as you'd like?
Oh, and I have a question:
Suppose you feel like you can check your gas just as quickly and easily as you could with AI because you route your SPG hose under your left arm and clip your SPG somewhere on your chest. You can check your gas just by glancing down and seeing the gauge (assuming the gauge face hasn't gotten twisted away from your face or anything).
Now, you're diving dry and you have your SPG HP hose and your dry suit inflator hose both routed under your left arm to your chest area.
You get a stuck dry suit inflator valve and need to make an emergency inflator hose disconnect.
Which is safer in an emergency? Having 2 hoses coming under your left arm and having to grab the right one to disconnect it? Or having 1 hose coming under your left arm (because instead of the other you have a hoseless connection to an SPG on your wrist) and having to disconnect it?
Or, alternate question, why is this not an issue?