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At 17:00 5/02/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>Does it matter if you detect bubbles after a dive? What can you do about it
>>then anyway?
>

>I think that being down there in oz is making the blood coagulate in your 
>head. The reason you look for bubbles is to check the accuracy of your 
>tables. If you have pushed your decom, more bubbles. No bubbles and you 
>are either OK or your stops are too long. There is some argument as to 
>validity of this correlation as this measures only the gas in your blood 
>stream, not the gas trapped in tissues, but it is better than nothing. I 
>believe both current Navy and PADI tables were developed using a doppler. 
>You *do* scuba dive, don't you?
>
>   Jim
>
>

Yes Jim I do scuba Dive but I already know that tables are inaccurate so as
I said 'Who Cares?' Unless of course you're writing your own algorithm based
on your testing. Then I would consider it something science related and not
really relevent to most divers. Then again i could be wrong. Hands up those
on this list writing their own algorithms like Jim.

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