Diving Info

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Diving is something I got into rather late in life.  Due to some personal physical limitations, I was unable to equalize my ears to the pressure that is inherent in diving.  Thanks to the miracles of modern medicine, I find myself the owner of TWO working eardrums.  Now that I'm able to equalize the pressure, I find that diving with an air tank on your back is something that is very enjoyable, and worth the time and trouble to get certified.

During my training, I became fascinated with the tables mostly due to over 25 years as a computer programmer.  I ended up writing a program that would do the table functions of dive planning.  After a year of trying through dive shops to market the planner, I faced the reality that dive computers are allowing dive planning to take place on a wrist, during the dive being executed.  HOWEVER, as a sailor, I believe in redundancy, and multiple back ups.  I am providing the dive planner that I wrote as a free service to certified divers.

Download the zipped file (Don't have a zip uitility?  Check out WWW.WINZIP.COM for a free download) to your zip directory.  Unzip the file to a directory (C:/planner zip) and unzip in that directory.  Run the Setup utility (provided by MSVisual Basic) and let the program install.  Feel free to run any kind of anti-viral software you have to insure that the files are clean.  They were clean when they left my computer, and they should arrive that way on yours.

The program will allow divers of the PADI, NAUI or SSI certifications to plan multiple repetitive dives, and allow them to print the dives as log book entries or dive student work sheets.  Using the mouse to navigate, and clicking on the appropriate buttons, the planner is fairly easy to use.  The planner is a little more conservative than the original tables, and will provide a longer Surface Interval than those coming from the tables provided by the certifying agencies.

Enjoy playing with them, using them to plan dives, or help brush up on table techniques.

CLICK HERE if you're interested in the download

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