FPDocMatt
Contributor
During my recent Advanced Open Water certification, we did a multi-level dive, and charted it using all 3 devices: RDP, eRDPml, and dive computer.
How do you log your dive if you used a dive computer? Do you just leave off the dive groups from the log book?
Should I purchase a dive computer?
- According to the RDP, I should have been dead.
- The eRDPml permitted the dive, made a lot of sense to me, giving me dive groups at each stage.
- The dive computer permitted the dive, but gave no dive groups.
How do you log your dive if you used a dive computer? Do you just leave off the dive groups from the log book?
Should I purchase a dive computer?
- I'll probably be going diving about 4 times a year.
- If the dives are those tour dives at resorts, they figure out that they're safe ahead of time, and there's no particular risk of exceeding NDL's.
- I can see that the deeper the dive, the more advantageous the dive computer is, since the RDP won't give you as much bottom time as the computer will (assuming you don't just dive straight down, stay at the same depth the whole dive, and ascend straight up).
- But some of the resorts give you dive computers attached to the regulator, or they can be rented.