low tech or high tech in cave diving

[Pavão]

If it was about 10% of the retail price, I would be very interested.

Thanks for getting the 95s hydroed!

Hmm, they still had a year left on it I think, did they have a fresh hydro on it?

[mwenner]

I've floated the idea of a small SPG illuminator to several folks, but no one's really been interested in following up on it.

Great idea! But why not stick a survey instrument illuminator on it and go? May not work!?

[Kafkaland]

It's a full computer, but you can put it on gauge mode, is that what you're looking for?
http://www.subgear.com/en-US/USA/com...nts/xp-3h.aspx

I have one of those, and I'm not impressed with it for cave diving. I got it initially to back up my wireless Aeris 300 OLED that I'm using with my single-tank OW rig. For that, it was fine. Then I used it on one of my sidemount tanks on a few cave dives, and the LCD is hard to read with a dive light, and the back illumination is a bit of a fuss to turn on. Then it died on me in the middle of the cave, and I had to call the dive. The manufacturer sent me a free replacement, but I'm back to analog gauges for the caves. I am toying with the idea of getting a Liquivision Lynx, which has now a dedicated sidemount mode. I love the idea of having both tanks on my wrist computer screen, but don't like having the transmitters stick out under my armpit. In any case, I'll keep the analog gauges just in case for redundancy.

[Aotus]

I'd like to see something like the screen on the petrel. Small, simple, bright, tough. And smart - turn pressure changes color or something. Choose your conservative gas plan etc.

[lv2dive]

Personally the last thing I want to do is anything that would encourage me to develop a dependence on a computer on something related to my gas supply. But that's just me, I guess I'm old-fashioned.

I'd like to see something like the screen on the petrel. Small, simple, bright, tough. And smart - turn pressure changes color or something. Choose your conservative gas plan etc.

[Aotus]

Personally the last thing I want to do is anything that would encourage me to develop a dependence on a computer on something related to my gas supply. But that's just me, I guess I'm old-fashioned.

I don't think you've ever liked anything I've said. I think we're on very different wavelengths.

[Garth]

Forward thinking is often met with one or more things:
Resistance to change and failure might be two common ones.

I like the idea about having additional safety factors, hints, reminders, alerts, etc but lv2dive brings up a good point that balancing measures such as dependence on those systems, fatigue for the alerts and workarounds for the safety factors can potentiate further problems.

You never know until you actually apply it to the real world diver.



Garth


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[lv2dive]

Seriously? I just went back to august of of last year and can't find a single post where I quoted you and/or disagreed with you. Maybe I missed one? There are a lot of posts I've never replied to on this board, in a positive OR negative way, but I can't say that anyone has ever gotten twisted over it. It's an opinion about a topic, it's not about you.

I don't think you've ever liked anything I've said. I think we're on very different wavelengths.

[Aotus]

Not twisted, just making an observation.

[PfcAJ]

Personally the last thing I want to do is anything that would encourage me to develop a dependence on a computer on something related to my gas supply. But that's just me, I guess I'm old-fashioned.

Like a Ccr?

couldn't resist!