Saying that dive computers make technical diving counter indicative means using dive computers to the point that dive planning is no longer done and decompression algorithms are no longer followed because the computer does all the work.
While dive computers does make dive planning easier and lays out all decompression algorithms for the coming dive, this doesn’t mean that divers should fully depend on the dive computer and its software. A technical dive should be approached and planned by the divers themselves and use the dive computer software to confirm the correctness of everything.
Compared to the manual preparations and dive watches of the past, dive computers can now be considered an indispensible instrument for technical diving. For instance, dive computers can show various models and scenarios in managing multiple gasses for decompression, make automatic calculations for helium bottom mixes, and calculate for bubble model algorithms.
However, when technical divers depend too much on dive computers and don’t plan out the decompression schedule, the divers may not be prepared for sudden events or emergency scenarios especially if a technical dive involves multiple gas switches and multiple stops. A diver may not know what to do during a stressful situation such as a sudden second decompression gas or making a sudden early or late gas switch.
Technical diving doesn’t mean giving full responsibility to the diving computer for DCS planning and CNS risk management. An experienced technical diver should know that the dive computer is there to confirm or show scenarios to aid in dive planning and managing decompression algorithms. Using a dive computer as a sort of quick fix solution is not only downright irresponsible, but the fact that basic and fundamental decompression theory and gas management is almost ignored will likely lead to fatal accidents.
Remember too that when you’re underwater and looking at a diver computer screen, every single number there is just to guide the technical diver especially with decompression scheduled stops and gas bubble management. All in all, the dive computer is indispensible today because as a diving guide it can also warn technical divers of potential danger scenarios.
While dive computers does make dive planning easier and lays out all decompression algorithms for the coming dive, this doesn’t mean that divers should fully depend on the dive computer and its software. A technical dive should be approached and planned by the divers themselves and use the dive computer software to confirm the correctness of everything.
Compared to the manual preparations and dive watches of the past, dive computers can now be considered an indispensible instrument for technical diving. For instance, dive computers can show various models and scenarios in managing multiple gasses for decompression, make automatic calculations for helium bottom mixes, and calculate for bubble model algorithms.
However, when technical divers depend too much on dive computers and don’t plan out the decompression schedule, the divers may not be prepared for sudden events or emergency scenarios especially if a technical dive involves multiple gas switches and multiple stops. A diver may not know what to do during a stressful situation such as a sudden second decompression gas or making a sudden early or late gas switch.
Technical diving doesn’t mean giving full responsibility to the diving computer for DCS planning and CNS risk management. An experienced technical diver should know that the dive computer is there to confirm or show scenarios to aid in dive planning and managing decompression algorithms. Using a dive computer as a sort of quick fix solution is not only downright irresponsible, but the fact that basic and fundamental decompression theory and gas management is almost ignored will likely lead to fatal accidents.
Remember too that when you’re underwater and looking at a diver computer screen, every single number there is just to guide the technical diver especially with decompression scheduled stops and gas bubble management. All in all, the dive computer is indispensible today because as a diving guide it can also warn technical divers of potential danger scenarios.