Dan,

Thanks for the clarification.  In short, I, and a number of others, do not
believe that ideal decompression profiles cannot be derrived by only
examining dynamics of dissolved gases. For me, this disbelief arose after
years of "blow and go"-type diving, which very consistently left me
exhausted by the end of the day.  There is more to decompression than
M-values and gas concentration gradients across alveolar membranes.  A
number of people, with an enormous collective body of experience, have
independently come to the conclusion that slow deep ascents (sometimes
manifested as additional deep decompression stops) are MUCH better than
fast deep ascents for preventing DCI.  Bubble theory offers one
mechanistic explanation.  I have no idea whether bubble physics explains
what's really going on, but that doesn't matter to me.  What matters to me
is that "What works, works." 

Aloha,
Rich

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