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Well, first of all, I would say that Mr. Sheckler has a very strong bias against tech recreational diving. While the risk of DCS is indeed increased in planned decompression diving, you are not free from risk even when diving within the in so-called no decompression limits. One must also be aware the commercial divers, for various reasons, mostly due to the huge expense of supporting deep divers, push the limits of bottom time and decompression, and do so because they have a chamber on site. An rec/tech diver would not necessarily dive the same profiles that a commercial diver would follow. I think that it has been adequately demonstrated that rec divers, if they move gradually and carefully into deco diving can do so safely, and without buying their own portable recompression chamber. If you are planning on some really serious diving you might want to be tested for PFO or other forms of blood shunts. At 01:18 PM 1/31/99 -0500, you wrote: >FOR OPEN DISCUSSION... > >LINKED BELOW IS THE CURRENT EDITION OF CALIFORNIA DIVING NEWS FEATURING A GUEST EDITORIAL ON "TECHDIVING" BY MICHAEL KANE, IANTD INSTRUCTOR. > >DALE SHECKLER, EDITOR OF THE MAGAZINE, OFFERS HIS OPINION IN A STRONGLY WORDED REBUTTAL AGAINST DECOMPRESSION DIVING OF ANY SORT WITHOUT A ON-SITE CHAMBER. FURTHMORE, HE STATES "HE CAN SEE SCUBA INCLUDING NITROX AS A VIABLE OPTION BELOW 100 FT.FOR RECREATIONAL DIVING". > >THIS IS A SUCCESSFUL AND WIDELY READ MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT CALIF. PLEASE COMMENT. > >http://www.saintbrendan.com/cdnfeb/edit2.html >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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