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>Posted on 2 Mar 1996 at 14:56:20 by Robert Wolov

>I mentioned the relative increase in N2 solubilty in fat (some 5X
>compared to lean muscle mass) so that the overweight diver will simply
>have more N2 on-board to off-gas. That theory fits nicely with your
>comments since the degree of saturation should increase with depth (the
>sport divers being shallow shouldn't pick as much N2 for the same bottom
>time as the deep guys) and yes it seems to make sense to me for them to
>increase their stops beyond the tables since they have more gas to
>equilibrate and dissolve out of solution in the tissues.

But is there a link between the total amount of N2 (lots of
fatty tissue say) and the risk of DCI or is the link rather
beteen tissue saturation levels and DCI ?  I'm unware of
any real models of the former case.

john

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