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Scuba::Table::NoDeco is a module that I put together one day when trying to plan a diving trip. I had a great range of dives I could choose from, but had the tediousness of looking up dive tables by hand to determine whether or not a particular sequence of dives were feasible. Asking myself "what if I swap this dive for that dive?" meant looking up all the tables again from that dive on. Boring!
As such, Scuba::Table::NoDeco was born. Rather than spend a few tedious minutes every time I wanted to change a dive in my schedule, I could get a Perl module to do it instead. Then once I had a schedule I liked, I could verify the tables by hand to make sure I hadn't encountered any bugs. Easy!
The most useful result of this for me is the on-line dive calculator, that allows dives to be planned in a fairly straightforward fashion. This means I can do most of what I need from an internet cafe or other public access point, rather than needing to have a handy Perl distribution and Scuba::Table::NoDeco installed.
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