Anyone still use Dive tables?

""Magilla"" <cavey_curtis@$$ yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Greg Mossman" wrote
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>> Some avid recreational divers who also tech dive claim to be able to dive
>> recreationally without using computers, but the rest of us are just
>> waiting for them to get bent so we can say we told you so.
>
> Be right behind the overweight, smoking, hung-over wrong gas divers in
> the bent line.......
>
>
Is it me.......or was that sarcasm???

LD.

""Magilla"" schreef in
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> Be right behind the overweight, smoking, hung-over wrong gas divers in
> the bent line.......


Hey Curtis, stop picking on me!

Frank

"Magilla" wrote:
> "El Mecky" wrote
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>>Hey Curtis, stop picking on me!
>
>
> Uh, okay.......
>
> Curtis
>
>
you can pick on me - if you choose too

if not I have to paint the trim on my house

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:46:05 -0700, "Scott" <pugetsounddiver@gmail.com>
wrote:

>""Magilla"" <cavey_curtis@$$ yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> "Joe English" wrote
>>
>> > you can pick on me - if you choose too
>> >
>> > if not I have to paint the trim on my house
>
>> Naw, be smarter for me to give you my address and let you paint here
>> too.
>
>Hello, is this the Sheriff's Office?"
>
>"Yes. What can I do for you?"
>
>"I'm calling to report 'bout my neighbor Virgil Smith....He's hidin'
>marijuana inside his firewood!
>
>Don't quite know how he gets it inside them logs, but he's hidin' it there."
>
>"Thank you very much for the call, sir."
>
>The next day, the Sheriff's Deputies descend on Virgil's house. They search
>the shed where the firewood is kept.
>
>Using axes, they bust open every piece of wood, but find no marijuana. They
>sneer at Virgil and leave.
>
>Shortly, the phone rings at Virgil's house.
>
>"Hey, Virgil! This here's Floyd....did the Sheriff come?"
>
>"Yeah!"
>
>"Did they chop your firewood?"
>
>"Yep!"
>
>"Happy Birthday, buddy!"
>
>

that was funny

""Magilla"" <cavey_curtis@$$ yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Limey" wrote
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>>>> Some avid recreational divers who also tech dive claim to be able to
>>>> dive recreationally without using computers, but the rest of us are
>>>> just waiting for them to get bent so we can say we told you so.
>>>
>>> Be right behind the overweight, smoking, hung-over wrong gas divers
>>> in the bent line.......
>>>
>>>
>> Is it me.......or was that sarcasm???
>
> Definitely dripping with saccasm, maybe I should have added a couple
> more real risks so nobody would thought it was personal.......
> <grinning>
>
>
Personal? In rec.scuba??? Tell me you're kidding!

LD.

""Magilla"" <cavey_curtis@$$ yahoo.com>

http://gue.com/Galleries/Wakulla/042306/index.html

Hey, where's the T-shirt?

http://gue.com/Galleries/Wakulla/042306/index.html

I recognize those tanks!

LD.

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:08:06 -0400, HotRod <NoSpam@YourEmail.com> wrote:
I thinks it's
> anoyying scrolling through three pages just to read a "LOL" or something
> similar.

Thats when you snip out stuff that you are not replying to!

bernard

Thus spake "HotRod" <NoSpam@YourEmail.com> :

>Was working my way through my course work last night and finally figured out
>the dive table for repetitive dives, I THINK. but can anyone explain to me
>what, on the third table, is the lower number used for e.g. 25/135. I
>understand using 25 plus your dive time to get your new group BUT what do
>you use the lower number for???

Have you asked your instructor? You're paying good money for the
course. You should be asking him/her.

>
>Also how many people still use the dive table? or do you really on your
>computer? I was thinking that even if the table says 50 min at your depth
>it's more important to watch you SPG?? Right or wrong?

Yes and no. And not really, to your first question, but usually to
the second, but do as I say, not as I do.

You have to learn and understand the tables to understand how to use a
computer properly. And what happens if your computer breaks? Is the
rest of you trip trashed, or do you break out the tables and start
diving "conservatively"?

Or take two computers with you.

>
>Newbie...
>
--
dillon

If you can't figure out how to unmunge my
address, email me and I'll explain it.

Thus spake "HotRod" <NoSpam@YourEmail.com> :

>"People who don't do this are called "drowned"." OR BENT
>

Nope. Skydiving and scuba diving. It's all fun and games until you
suddenly run out of air.

When your piston won't move because you don't have enough pressure in
the tank to put air in the line, you are seconds away from drowning
becuase you also don't have any air in your lungs. If your
instructor hasn't already done so, he will, or should, turn your air
off in the pool, just so you know what that nonbreath feels like.

You can do it, but it's hard to get bent in 30 feet of water on a
single Al 80. But you sure can drown.
--
dillon

If you can't figure out how to unmunge my
address, email me and I'll explain it.

>Also plan at least your first 30-50 dives and calculate pressure
>groups, surface interval and residual pressure groups for next dives,
>before
>relying on any computer or whatsoever. Computers may malfunction. How would
>you tell if you had absolutely no idea?

Properly cared for computers don't malfunction often. Humans, on the other
hand do. Comparison of information from the tables with information from a
computer is not only a good learning experience, it's also a good cross
check, at least for the first one or two repetitive dives.

Lee