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> No doubt about it from our standpoint.
> BUBBLES are the Issue!

No, bubbles PROBABLY are the issue. Unfortunately, bubble math requires a 
Cray.  My system requires grade-school arithmetic.  There's no point in 
going into all the complex math and detailed models of the bubble physics 
if we don't even know that bubbles cause DCS (as you'll recall Thalmann 
pointing out).  What is important is that I, and George, and J-P Imbert, 
and Andre Garlene, and dozens of others have independently discovered by 
empiracle means that breaking up the big delta-P of an initial ascent can 
reduce symptoms of DCS and "proto-DCS".  That's the first step.  When 
they can fit a cray into a wrist-size box, and when someone can convince 
me that the software running the the high-end math is relatively 
bug-free, then maybe we can look into the complex models.  But right now, 
I think it's better to stick with whatever compartment model we're comfy 
with and modify it with deep stops.

> The problem is in getting a "Model" to generate them as part of the model,
> and NOT as a arbitrary insertion.
> Just adding the deep stops is simple.

Then DO IT! At least make it an option.

> I am after a model that predicts the neccesity of the stops being there to
> begin with.

I will probably be a great grandpa when that happens, and even then, the 
believers in the model will probably be fooling themselves, just as the 
many who misinterpreted the compartment models did.

Rich

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