Hi all,
Disclaimer: I am not a tech diver...I do have a tech 40 cert card...I am still not a tech diver.
The posts I have quoted above really set the proper tone. Thanks to
@drainaps for starting this thread (
Teric not Accepted as Primary Dive Computer?)
Compared to JC, 98% (more like 99.8%) of us on Scubaboard are keyboard warriors. He was a professional commercial diver for decades. He survived where others died. He had the wherewithal to rescue people who were seriously bent and not get bent himself; he tried to rescue these people while on the same dive in the same vicinity. Not as a rescue or recovery diver, as a fellow diver.
If Richie Kohler and/or JC told me to follow some technique or dive plan and any one of you objected, I would listen to Richie or John, and not you. While
@Akimbo,
@Wookie,
@rsingler or
@doctormike, et allia, are in same league, even though they may be from different niches, I would still follow Richie and John's advice. I would definitely be saying to myself: Oh f**k, oh s**t, whose advice do I follow?
If Bruce, Lynn, or Pete told me not to follow John or Richie's advice, I would thumb the dive (only because I have a personal relationship with these people).
It is his class. It is his topic. If you don't like the syllabus, find someone who teaches what you want to be taught. Decades of real-life experience matters.
As far as other PDCs v. Shearwater: I am a fan-boy of Shearwater. I don't have any experience with Eon or other comparable computers. I bet if I used one of the other PDCs, I would sing their praises also. It is just a computer; however, the principals of Shearwater have sold themselves to me in person. They are highly ethical people; they hooked me.
cheers,
m