Input requested [was: [PATCH] Use proper gas names in the divelist.]

[Robert C. Helling]

On 06 Jan 2015, at 16:16, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

Hi, 

> I want to hear from others, but maybe no one cares?

sorry, I am late for this discussion. Here are my two cents:

I don’t do trimix, so in that respect I don’t have practical experience. Displaying the bottom mix sounds fine to me (as, in my impression, only trimix dives tend to have more than two cylinders). BTW, is the bottom mix the one with highest %He or the gas used at the deepest point of the dive?

What I do quite regularly, are nitrox dives. But since filling nitrox here has some more logistics I don’t really use it as a bottom mix (it gives me relatively little advantage in NDL for the 30-35m dives we do here most) but to accelerate deco, I carry a nitrox stage typically with a mix in the 50% range. So I would find it a bit strange to call such a dive an air dive. With just these two mixes, 21..50% gives me full information (and using a third mix for me hardly happens).

Multiple columns are of course fine, but lacking those, why not show a range for nitrox dives with more than one mix and something like 18/40+ for multiple cylinder trimix dives?

Best
Robert
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