EXTRA June 1999 DOES YOUR COMPUTER RUN AT YOUR SPEED?

MAIN REPORT

GROUP A Mares Air Lab Mares Guardian Mares Surveyor Mares Tutor

GROUP B Suunto Eon Suunto Favor Suunto Solution Alpha Suunto Solution Nitrox Suunto Spyder ACW Suunto Viper

GROUP C Aladin Air Aladin Air X Aladin Air X Nitrox Aladin Pro Aladin Pro Nitrox Mares Genius Monitor 3

GROUP D Dive Rite B'Air Dive Rite Bridge II Dive Rite Nitec Dive Rite Nitec 3

GROUP E Dacor Sportster Hydrotech Data Ocean Reef Plus O1 Orca Pilot & Pilot Audio Orca Pilot Audio Nitrox Orca Pilot Nitrox UBS Chameleon Zeagle Status II

GROUP F Cochran Aquanox Cochran Commander + Cochran Commander Nitrox Cochran Nemesis + Cochran Nemesis Nitrox IIa

The chart shows the performance of the six computer "groups" on a 55m dive made on Day Two of the Diver Test (see graph, page 30). The displays and depths were noted throughout to show which computer groups were the most and least cautious at any one moment.

time (min)	depth (m)	A	B	C	D	E	F
A/T = Total ascent time   Least cautious   Most cautious
8	55	No stop time 0min	A/T 6min/3m stop	No stop time 1min	No stop time 1min	No stop time 0min	No stop time 0min
9	55	A/T 5min/3m stop 1min	A/T 6min/3m stop	No stop time 0min	A/T 8min/3m stop 1min	No stop time 0min	3m stop 1min
10	55	A/T 5min/3m stop 1min	A/T 5min/3m stop	A/T 6min/3m stop 2min	A/T 9min/6m stop 1min	A/T 9min/3m stop	3m stop 2min
11	52	A/T 7min/3m stop 3min	A/T 8min/3m stop	A/T 8min/3m stop 4min	A/T 10min/6m stop 1min	A/T 10min/7m stop	3m stop 6min
13	40	A/T 7min/6m stop 1min	A/T 8min/3m stop	A/T 8min/6m stop 1min	A/T 11min/9m stop 1min	A/T 9min/9m stop	6m stop 5min
16	30	A/T 8min/6m stop 1min	A/T 8min/3m stop	A/T 9min/6m stop 2min	A/T 11min/9m stop 1min	A/T 8min/8m stop	6m stop 5min
17	24	A/T 8min/6m stop 1min	A/T 9min/3m stop	A/T 9min/6m stop 2min	A/T 11min/6m stop 3min	A/T 7min/6m stop	6m stop 5min
23	17	A/T 8min/3m stop 7min	A/T 10min/3m stop	A/T 9min/6m stop 1min	A/T 9min/6m stop 2min	A/T 7min/3m stop	6m stop 1min
25	13	A/T 8min/3m stop 7min	A/T 10min/3m stop	A/T 9min/3m stop 8min	A/T 11min/6m stop 1min	A/T 5min/3m stop	6m stop 1min
31	10	A/T 6min/3m stop 5min	A/T 7min/3m stop	A/T 9min/3m stop 8min	A/T 10min/3m stop 8min	A/T 3min/3m stop	3m stop 3min
36	8	A/T 5min/3m stop 4min	A/T 6min/3m stop	A/T 9min/3m stop 8min	A/T 10min/3m stop 8min	A/T 1min/3m stop	No stop
37	8	A/T 5min/3m stop 4min	A/T 5min/3m stop	A/T 8min/3m stop 7min	A/T 10min/3m stop 8min	No stop
39	6	A/T 5min/3m stop 3min	A/T 5min/3m stop	A/T 8min/3m stop 7min	A/T 10min/3m stop 7min
42	6	A/T 3min/3m stop 2min	A/T 3min/3m stop	A/T 6min/3m stop 5min	A/T 7min/3m stop 6min
45	6	A/T 2min/3m stop 1min	A/T 3min/3m stop	A/T 4min/3m stop 3min	A/T 6min/3m stop 5min
47	6	A/T 2min/3m stop 1min	No stop	A/T 4min/3m stop 3min	A/T 5min/3m stop 5min
48	6	No stop		A/T 4min/3m stop 3min	A/T 5min/3m stop 4min
51	6			A/T 1min/3m stop 1min	A/T 4min/3m stop 3min
54	6			No stop	A/T 3min/3m stop 2min
56	6				No stop
A/T = Total ascent time   Least cautious   Most cautious

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Appeared in DIVER - June 1999

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