Comments on: Dive No’s 51 & 52 - Stoney Cove http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2006/05/05/dive-nos-51-52-stoney-cove/ Random musings of a diver, biker and hockey player... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:45:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: soldave http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2006/05/05/dive-nos-51-52-stoney-cove/#comment-138 soldave Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:51:33 +0000 http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2006/05/05/dive-nos-51-52-stoney-cove/#comment-138 To answer your question, with the more sensitive computer, yes. I've got a Smart Com and when you raise the console quickly to check your dive details, the alarm does have a tendency to go off. Better being too sensitive and going off all the time, than not going off at all. I may be wrong on this, but I think that the computers get more sensitive on the ascent rate when you get closer to the surface, as that's when the chances of air embolism increase. It's also at shallow depth when your depth can vary wildly; if a wave goes over you then it can cause your depth to suddenly increase and then decrease. Nice log of your dive, by the way. Hope the new equipment does you well. To answer your question, with the more sensitive computer, yes. I’ve got a Smart Com and when you raise the console quickly to check your dive details, the alarm does have a tendency to go off. Better being too sensitive and going off all the time, than not going off at all.

I may be wrong on this, but I think that the computers get more sensitive on the ascent rate when you get closer to the surface, as that’s when the chances of air embolism increase. It’s also at shallow depth when your depth can vary wildly; if a wave goes over you then it can cause your depth to suddenly increase and then decrease.

Nice log of your dive, by the way. Hope the new equipment does you well.

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