Free dive planning software - any good?

Rhone Man

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• Dec 8, 2008

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A BSAC message board led me to download the attached free dive planning software. It looks OK to me (quite conservative when compared against tables, but still...) but I wondered if any others had any experiences/views of its relative merits?

HLPlanner - FREE VPM-B based decompression software

 

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• Dec 8, 2008

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My free dive software is a 3mm full wet suit; my free dive plan is "take very large breath, dive until interesting picture is taken, surface before passing out."

 

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• Dec 8, 2008

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I've use it. The interface is quite similar to DecoPlanner, which I don't really like. Last I used FreePlanner it was much more intuitive (to me).

 

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DDPlan is DOS based software which i find very fast and easy to use

 

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• Dec 9, 2008

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I see they make this software for your PC and also for the IPhone. Does anyone know where you can get software like this for a BlackBerry? Just curious as I never leave home without it and think if may come in handy some day.