100' vs 130'??

[Centrals]

Alarm is NOT a comfort blanket! I have no idea where you get it from other than you own personal opinion.
I do not believe it is a comfort blamket.
No right or wrong, just different opinion.

 

[Wibble]

Alarm is NOT a comfort blanket! I have no idea where you get it from other than you own personal opinion.
I do not believe it is a comfort blamket.
No right or wrong, just different opinion.

WHY HAVE AN ALARM? You MUST be checking already. Why would you add additional tech that masks core skill deficiencies?

 

[Centrals]

WHY HAVE AN ALARM? You MUST be checking already. Why would you add additional tech that masks core skill deficiencies?

You cannot be serious!!!!
Nearly every single dc have one. Perhaps you ought to raise the question with the manufacturers/programmers etc etc instead of coming here.

 

[Blackcrusader]

Nearly every single dc have one. .

Yes and I have had many divers point at me when their own alarms have gone off.
They know not what their own alarm sounds like.
It's a fun debriefing back on the boat when I tell them my Perdix does not have alarms.
The looks on their faces is priceless.

 

[Wibble]

You cannot be serious!!!!
Nearly every single dc have one. Perhaps you ought to raise the question with the manufacturers/programmers etc etc instead of coming here.

I dive with three Shearwaters (Petrel, Perdix, Nerd) and none of them have alarms.

Have solved the problem of the Suunto; leave it in the garage where it's less annoying.

 

[Centrals]

I dive with three Shearwaters (Petrel, Perdix, Nerd) and none of them have alarms.

Have solved the problem of the Suunto; leave it in the garage where it's less annoying.

Who give a toss about Shearwater! I leave them in the shop.
One thing I am certain is that Shearwater would never dare to come out and declare that by using their products DCS is history. Period.
Nothing WRONG with alarm whatsoever.
I can use any entry level computer and nothing would happen to me on multi dives in multi days.
DC is just a tool.

 

[Wibble]

Who give a toss about Shearwater! I leave them in the shop.
One thing I am certain is that Shearwater would never dare to come out and declare that by using their products DCS is history. Period.
Nothing WRONG with alarm whatsoever.
I can use any entry level computer and nothing would happen to me on multi dives in multi days.
DC is just a tool.

Gosh. Could break this down into multiple threads and we'd have fun for weeks.

You obviously don't use computers for diving well beyond recreational limits where reliability, usability and accuracy really matter as your life literally depends upon it. The only thing better than one Shearwater is another one as a backup -- not that I've EVER needed to resort to a backup to the Shearwaters as they're so reliable. Seems that most rebreathers are based around Shearwaters nowadays -- and that market really knows its onions.


Nope; can't resist... Decompression models are all about the statistical chances of getting DCS. You cannot avoid DCS as it's down to the vagaries of the human body. But then again, we dive because it's intrinsically in an environment that humans cannot live without specialist technology.


All dive computers are most definitely not made of the same stuff. Some are easy to use, reliable and clear to read. Others are ridiculously complex, unreliable and have crazy arbitrary limits and restrictions. And need alarms to compensate for their deficiencies. And in the case of many, needs a decent dive computer as a backup.

 

[Marie13]

I dive with three Shearwaters (Petrel, Perdix, Nerd) and none of them have alarms.

Have solved the problem of the Suunto; leave it in the garage where it's less annoying.

No AUDIBLE alarms on Shearwater computers. The flashing warnings are pretty damn obvious, though.

 

[Centrals]

Certified as a full trimix 20 yrs ago. Never taught to use computer to dive tec.
Please do not lecture me on decompression dive as I had done several hundred of it. 2 bottom timers and a pre-dive plan.
What else do I need?
This is the sub forum for new divers so perhaps you would like to start a new thread on tec sub forum.

Tec diver is NOT better than recreational divers. Two different types of diving. Like it or not.
It is the attitude like yours that give tec diver a bad name.
I do not go round and lecture strangers of my belief and opinion.

 

[HKGuns]

Alarms.

When I was first certified, I idiotically set my first dive computer (Oceanic Pro+2) to a max depth of 60 feet. Following the rules you know........

A year or so later, I was diving in India, we dove to ~85-90 feet and the damn thing was alarming constantly. I could not figure out why it was alarming, nor could I figure out how to silence it permanently for the rest of the dive. It not only concerned and annoyed me, it annoyed everyone in our dive group. As a newer diver, it isn't exactly comforting to have your dive computer alarming with no knowledge of why it is squawking at you.

I now own a Perdix and am done with alarms.