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>I haven't had a wide response on the question of hit rates as yet, but so far
>there seem to be divers who get hit reasonably often and those who never get
>hit at all. I haven't "analysed" the responses yet and there aren't many,
>so perhaps this should be taken with a grain of salt, but there may well be
>"two groups" of divers as far as risk is concerned. Obviously I haven't
>atttempted to correlate with actual PFO's so it may be this or some other
>factor involved.
>One diver reported three hits from 4 dives while his buddy has had zero!
>Go figure!
Tentative conclusion #1 That testing for PFO as a risk indicator for DCI
is not useful
Tentative conclusion #2 Different decompression tables for divers
with PFO is not necessary
/rat
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