Now that enriched air diving is pretty standard and nitrox can be bought from most dive shops and dive stations around the world, dive computers have all developed so that they can plan and execute any dive – sometimes including when more than one mix of nitox is being used.
Nitrox is a great gas, but [...]
The Dive Rite Nitek X Diving Computer is not cheap retailing at £1,265 in the UK. New in 2009 it is a trimix decompression dive computer that uses a modified Buhlmann ZH-L16 algorithm with gradient factors set as follows:
75/95
40/100
30/75
The computer provides real time decompression information during the dive based on gas mixtures that the diver [...]
If I was able to have two computers I would choose one wrist mounted model suited to the diving I was doing currently and also one console mounted version that was integrated with my air supply. The reason for this would be that for most of my diving at home I would use the console [...]