Scuba anyone?
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I am afraid that I don't bother. All the dive operations we go to give us a printed readout of the dives we have done at the end of the week. Paula puts that is a plastic wallet with all the others. When I got my Shearwater, I set the dive count to my personal number of dives, so now that keeps track of my dive count. I did download the dives from my Shearwater the first time I used it, but that novelty soon wore off
But every dive I have done since I got it is stored in the memory, so I sort of have the last few 100..... -
I have to admit that I never bothered with a classic dive log. Usually I take a photo of the site map during briefing and I have computer log.
But as I was working on reducing my air consumption I got the habit of downloading the stats from the computer. It all started when the air integration came to market, I could finally just know my consumption at any time during the dive and it really informed the craft. Sharewater has now for half a year a new app that is kind of cool. But there is an app created by no other than creator of Linux himself - Linus Torvalds. Apparently he is an avid diver.
The app is called Subsurface. This is the end game, funny how all the commercial apps created by professional companies are not even close to this one. -
That is an interesting point about air consumption. Working on reducing it, will be a big part of my diving for a while. The XDeep Ghost which arrived whilst I was in Japan, is the first part of the jigsaw, learning how to frog kick properly is another.
In Raja Ampat last time, my group (of 4) included a girl called Cat. I had been diving with her before, but we had never dived in the same small group, so I had not studied how she dived in detail underwater. She frog kicked, was always perfectly horizontal and never used her hands to turn (I do). She dives with her hands held way forward of her torso, I think to move some weight forwards of her pivot pint to help with trim control. I am not awful with air consumption, but she would regularly come up after an hour with twice as much air as me. She is tiny, so I am sure that helped, but that holiday made me realise I have a lot to get better at.
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