On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:15:00 -0500, Lee Bell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  Dive 1
>
>A word about my computer is appropriate.  In an attempt to keep me safe
from
>myself, which is not all that bad an idea, Oceanic decided that I should
>reset my computer for every dive in a series that follows a nitrox dive.
To
>make sure I do, roughly 10 minutes after the end of the previous dive, the
>computer resets to 78% nitrogen and 50% oxygen.

That's WORSE than the pre-1996 Uwatec Aladin Nitrox which left the
O2 setting during the dive unchanged during surface interval --
instead of re-setting it to 21%.  It was an ERROR, which finally
had been admitted by Uwatec in court, LAST YEAR, after 5 lawsuits
by 5 bent divers had been filed.


>The idea is that 78/50 is
>the most conservative settings the computer can use for both nitrogen and
>oxygen.  If I fail to reset the computer, that's what it uses for any dive
>until I either do reset it, or both N2 and O2 clocks run out.

The idea is as foolish as could be.

When a fool does foolish things trying to protect a fool, it merely
DOUBLES the number of fools.

-- Bob.