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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 07:33:55 -0400
To: jep@re*.es*
From: Michel Therrien <m.therrien@ne*.qc*.ca*>
Subject: Re: Deep stops - How Important?
Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Thanks!  I did not think it was in DeepTech.  You are right, I have it in
my hand.  This article is interesting.

Michel Therrien

At 11:33 AM 4/24/98 +0200, Josep Guarro wrote:
>The article you are referring to, could be this one:
>
>Bubble stories and theories, by J.P.Imbert
>Deeptech, issue 7 (winter 1997) pages 50-53
>
>Josep Guarro
>
>
>
>Michel Therrien wrote:
>
>> .../... erased text
>>
>> J.P. Imbert (Comex) wrote an interesting article last year.  What he
>> explained is that there are two types of bends:
>> 1. the friendly bends : pain only (type I DCS)
>> 2. the serious bends : neurological problems (type II DCS)
>> 
>> Type II DCS will be better avoid by taking into consideration bubble
>> formation during ascent and by including deeper stops in the profile.
>> 
>> For type I DCS, Imbert suggested that the present decompression models are
>> way too much sophisticated.  There is no purpose to have 32 tissue
>> compartments (how many times did you get bent in the belly? ;-).  He
>> suggested that a single tissue model would take care of that problem in his
>> article.  Sadly, I can't find it back (too many magazines in my library and
>> I don't remember which one it was).
>> 
>> Michel Therrien
>>
>
>

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