| Tables are available for constant PP02 diving so there is no reason why you cant do OC and CCR with tables and a depth / bottom timer.
The VR3 is capable of doing set point decompression and also constant PP02 monitoring deco with an option to switch to OC bail out at any time and continue giving useful deco data. I don’t know enough about set point dive planning to understand the problems or lack of them in bailing out to OC on tables so this may or may not be an issue.
The VR3 is upgradeable so you can get it in OC Nitrox mode and upgrade to Trimix or CCR Nitrox then CCR trimix with or without the fourth cell link. Personally I prefer computers to tables and my research has found the VR3 to be the best available computer in the UK. There is an American computer in a similar vain (The Abyss Explorer) but its rarity rules it out. The VR3 is widely used and discussed and is standard kit on most of the top deep diving expeditions. That kind of exposure brings confidence. NO ONE gets a VR3 to do bimble dives so you can be assured that the users out there are doing deep and deco. Problems with the algorithm will pop up pretty quickly in that game.
Delta P appears to have a grip on early unreliability problems and upgrades are available for older models.
As for buddy diving the normal rules apply. You always go on the most conservitave model. If your buddy is a regular on your deep deco dives then I would match equipment and gasses for redundancy.
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Mark Chase
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Last edited by Mark Chase : 09-07-04 at 11:10 PM.
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