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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:13:34 -0700 (MST)
To: techdiver@terra.net
From: "Christopher M. Parrett" <chris@ab*.co*>
Subject: Re: Deep Stops
At 07:34 PM 10/28/96 -1000, you wrote:
>
>> TOTAL DECO = 115 + 4 Deep.
>> 
>> This is the aberration that I was referring to in my first posting.
>> Tissue models simply don't handle these extra stops well as a part of the
model.
>
>What do you mean?  It looks fine to me. The differences in the 2nd 
>profile are, as you know, physiologically meaningless.  So get Abyss to 
>ad the stops automatically, so the diver doesn't have to do so manually.  


You are most correct.
The few minutes are of no real concern.
But they are there, and they annoy me nonetheless..

>Also, I don't think "artificial" is a good adjective for the deep stops.
Agreed.
Poor choice of words.

>
>> This IN NO WAY deminishes the reality of the potential positive impact that
>> the stops actually have. It simply points out a shortcoming of tissue based
>> models.
>
>I think I missed the "shortcoming".

The shortcoming is that I am not able to generate an Identicle table with
the same deco times once the Deep Stops have been added.

>
>Aloha,
>Rich
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