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> On Sun, 4 Sep 1994, Jason Rogers wrote:
> > We've been haveing some hassels with DCI over recent months.  Every one dive
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> > work in water oxygen has been very effective.
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> > Any ideas on how we can reduce this quite high hit rate would be most
> > apreciated.
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> While we were developing DECOM we were running profiles and comparing
> them to the other programs out there AND to existing tables that had been
> dived safely. As a result we came up with a default conservatism factor
> that gets the diver out of the water a little slower.
> So what do you do? Increase the conservatism factors on the program you
> are using. Personally I don't dive much with a gas bias <7 for both
> helium and nitrogen.

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.  I'm not quite sure what you mean
by a "gas bias <7".  Are you saying you tell the programme you are using a
mix with 7% more inert gas, 7% longer bottom time, or something else?

Yours confused Jason Rogers

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