Crush
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Dear all,
This post is inspired by Willar's post "PADI dropping dive tables?" - I did not post this as a follow-on to his thread as I did not want to detract from that thread.
A year ago I came to a personal decision that I was never going to dive tables, unless there was no other alternative. I also realized that there was a chance that a computer could fail during a dive. Therefore I bought a Sherwood Insight (wrist mount) as a backup for my Sherwood Wisdom 2 (air integrated) and take both on dives. A failure of the Wisdom 2 would mean the end of my dive (no console), but I could still dive if the Insight failed.
Personally I believe that, in the way that octo's have replaced (in the majority of cases) the need for buddy breathing (not that it shouldn't be taught or practiced), I also believe that diving with two computers will replace the need to take a dive table with you on any trip (not that a table weighs much...) Judgements on whether or not tables should be taught are directed to Willar's post.
Does anyone see a fault in this? If so, why? I am prone to missing the obvious, so I welcome feedback.
This post is inspired by Willar's post "PADI dropping dive tables?" - I did not post this as a follow-on to his thread as I did not want to detract from that thread.
A year ago I came to a personal decision that I was never going to dive tables, unless there was no other alternative. I also realized that there was a chance that a computer could fail during a dive. Therefore I bought a Sherwood Insight (wrist mount) as a backup for my Sherwood Wisdom 2 (air integrated) and take both on dives. A failure of the Wisdom 2 would mean the end of my dive (no console), but I could still dive if the Insight failed.
Personally I believe that, in the way that octo's have replaced (in the majority of cases) the need for buddy breathing (not that it shouldn't be taught or practiced), I also believe that diving with two computers will replace the need to take a dive table with you on any trip (not that a table weighs much...) Judgements on whether or not tables should be taught are directed to Willar's post.
Does anyone see a fault in this? If so, why? I am prone to missing the obvious, so I welcome feedback.