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>I've never implied that current compartment based models are BS. You have
>me confused with someone else. However, I do believe they are not the optimum
>model for decompression calculations.
There is a lot of heat and smoke, and not a great deal of light in here.
I get the impression that Tom is trying to get the message across that the
current models are as good as we know how to make them, and the current
theory is KNOWN not to be good enough, which is why some people use "safety
factors" and "deep bubble stops". He goes on to say he has seen a lot of
DCS, and has treated a lot of DCS, and has seen what happens, sooner or
later, to divers who push the edge of the models in the belief that the
models "are not the optimum for decompression calculations". Those divers
get bent. Badly. SOME of them, but NOT all of them, manage to learn to
walk again.
The main points bear repeating.
1. The current deco theory models are as good as we know how to make them.
2. The current models are NOT good enough; we don't know enough about DCS yet.
3. We compensate for this by adding "safety factors" and "deep bubble stops".
We do these things because they work and for no other reason.
4. Pushing the limits of the models eventually has harsh consequences.
Tom, is this a fair summary?
--John
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