"My computer locked out - it told me I needed to do some more deco, but I was low on air, so I just came on up - can I borrow your client's computer for the afternoon dive?"
$h1t you DON'T want to hear a diver say...
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 04:14 PM
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 04:45 PM
Jack, that falls under "$h1t you never want to hear a diver say"
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 04:51 PM
Jack, that falls under "$h1t you never want to hear a diver say"
Add: "Our computers were about to lock us out so we left them tied to the line at 3 meters. We'll pull them up after these beers."
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 05:14 PM
"I don't know why, but my computer keeps beeping at me towards the end of a dive, and won't stop unless I take the batteries out to make it."
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Posted 24 January 2012 - 08:47 AM
"Buddy? What buddy? I was by myself for the last 45 minutes of the dive."
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Posted 24 January 2012 - 10:48 AM
What are all these hoses for?
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Posted 24 January 2012 - 11:14 AM
"My computer locked out - it told me I needed to do some more deco, but I was low on air, so I just came on up - can I borrow your client's computer for the afternoon dive?"
That is virtually verbatim what a female diver said here last week before heading to the chamber. A week on and she's still receiving chamber treatment. IMO the dive guide who took her should be investigated and possibly barred, but that won't happen here. Shows that idiots especially should choose their dive center with care.
I should qualify that. After she surfaced from her dive with her computer silently shouting at her and saying things like "Oh my God! Don't dive!", she assumed it must be broken and went back into the water for two more dives. She didn't have another computer so she just went without one. AFAIK she is a PADI AOW.
Edited by peterbj7, 24 January 2012 - 11:17 AM.
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Posted 24 January 2012 - 11:27 AM
"My computer locked out - it told me I needed to do some more deco, but I was low on air, so I just came on up - can I borrow your client's computer for the afternoon dive?"
That is virtually verbatim what a female diver said here last week before heading to the chamber. A week on and she's still receiving chamber treatment. IMO the dive guide who took her should be investigated and possibly barred, but that won't happen here. Shows that idiots especially should choose their dive center with care.
I should qualify that. After she surfaced from her dive with her computer silently shouting at her and saying things like "Oh my God! Don't dive!", she assumed it must be broken and went back into the water for two more dives. She didn't have another computer so she just went without one. AFAIK she is a PADI AOW.
Sounds like the perfect example showing people will buy a dive computer and then start using it without understanding what the dive computer is telling them--if they even learn how to properly operate or set it at all. This gets worse if they are renting the computer.
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Posted 24 January 2012 - 12:24 PM
Sounds like the perfect example showing people will buy a dive computer and then start using it without understanding what the dive computer is telling them--if they even learn how to properly operate or set it at all. This gets worse if they are renting the computer.
That's why we should all use tables
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Posted 25 January 2012 - 08:36 AM
Perhaps this topic should be renamed:
"$h1t you you'll probably hear a diver say only once..."
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Posted 25 January 2012 - 08:51 AM
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Posted 25 January 2012 - 09:07 AM
Something's wrong with my computer. It was counting up instead of down. The longer I stayed the more time it said I had left.
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Posted 25 January 2012 - 09:22 AM
My computer was acting weird. It said I was at 30ft and 83ft at the same time.
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Posted 25 January 2012 - 10:28 PM
I don't need a computer. My husband has one and I just follow him around...
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Posted 25 January 2012 - 10:29 PM
this is an actual response from a diver after the dive master pulled him up from 173ft and he was diving on nitrox.
" I just wanted to see how deep I could go!"
" I just wanted to see how deep I could go!"
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