Technical Scuba Diving
(NB: This post is targeted at rebreather divers) The purpose of this post is to detail the situation when you would want to manually "vote out" a cell on a Shearwater computer and alternate solutions considered. Background The way I have my rEvo configured is that three oxygen cells are connected to the main Petrel [...]
I had recently written about the benefits of Shearwater making the SurfGF field persistent after clearing deco but was also waiting for that change to be "back-ported" to the Petrel2 hardware. I noted at the end of the article that a Shearwater support engineer said they were going to make the changes available in the [...]
Background I recently read the release notes for the latest Shearwater software release (v91) and was excited -- yes, I know, no comments from the peanut gallery. One of the standard information fields on a Shearwater computer (all dive computers really) is the NDL or No Decompression Limit field. This is the amount of time [...]
Background This article is about a "feature" in the Shearwater diver computer that I believe most people are unaware of and that is not really documented in the user manual. It is about the "Dive Plan" feature which divers probably most often use to plan a dive before they enter the water; however, it is [...]
I have been asking for a while for Shearwater to implement a feature that would show the required decompression profile. I even spoke to numerous people at Shearwater who commented that "yes, that would be a really good feature to have." Little did I (or they) realize, but it has been in the product for [...]