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I am still hearing baloney excuses of why we do not know what we are doing with decompression, so we need to go over this again. First , I am going to make a comparison and give some results, and then I am going to talk about what we are doing and why. In 1998, JJ , Brent and I did a dive in Wakulla that had a profile of 285-300 for 360 minutes of real bottom time ( time at the bottom only counted) on 11X70 trimix. I decompressed out of that dive in 8 1/2 hours, a new personal record. JJ and Brent did a little more . I was betting that 150 minutes of oxygen was adequate, and that I could get back into the water if it were not . By way of comparison, Bill Stone's longest dive by his "divers" was claimed to be about 5 hours, which I would have called 3 hours, and those two kids did almost 24 HOURS more deco than I did, and they did it in a chamber. Of those two divers, one is 24 years younger than me, the other is 22 years younger. Both are slim, not fat slobs like most of the rest of that "team" . OK, we are not talking shaving off some pitttance of deco- we are talking about doing deco entirely differently than what is taught out there. We are talking about doing deco properly , not doing deco for our deco for our other deco for our deco, like everyone else is doing, or doing deco to decompress rolls of fat slobbery and nights of beer drinking and pot smoking and potato chips. We are talking real deco for real people who treat this like a sport , not a cheap visit to the psychiatrist, or a ticket to bigdealism ( big deco is a big deal to the strokes). Following that dive I did a ten mile run the next morning. I just did an Ironman triathelon last week , so I am not screwed up from my diving, am I? I get scans done and xrays, I see the doctors every month, and there have been zero problems from my deco whether done my me or anyone else in the WKPP. We get out of the water within minutes of each other. The Navy studies us and out techniqes for Spec. Warfare. They use blood tests before and after and they use doppler, and the doppler is done by Dr. Johansen, THE GUY WHO WROTE THE CHAPTER ON THIS IN "The Physiology and Medicine of Diving", and we are checked by Dr. ( Commander ) Chimiak, the Navy's CHIEF HYPERBARIC PHYSICIAN . Before them we had this done by FSU all the way back to the days when Exley was with us. The genesis of our development in this regard was expimentation and a close association with Dr. Bill Hamiton, who's doctorate is in HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, and who spent years developing decompression techniques and tables for the military and oil companies. He himself was a military aviator , a jet figher pilot in Viet Nam. We took this base and a team of hundreds of players over thousands of man dive hours in extreme mixed gas diving conditions and developed out what now is the best system going for in water decompression and rapid decomprssion and more importantly SUCCESSSFUL DECOMPRSSIONS FROM DIFFICULT DIVES. The experimentation and fine tuning of the techniques and the math were done by myself, Bill Mee ( a BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER ) and Dr. John Rose, a PHD in applied mathematics, as well as a whole team of other similarly endowed individuals who also dove the tables themselves. Rose showed the best results by the way, I showed the fastest "clearing". This is not some boat monkey operation, and I am really sick of hearing from the resentful idiots who can not figure this stuff out correctly why we do not know what we are doing when we so clearly do . And let me shatter another bullshit myth - you CAN in fact figure this stuff out exactly and we have proven it , and it makes perfect sense to us. What you can NOT do is teach a pig to sing or properly decompress a "pig". That is the diffrence - the whole difference. If you should be doing this at all, our way works , if you should not being doing it, NOTHING WILL WORK reliably - end of story. More on specifics to come. I did not want to talk about this pre-Stone in case he did not get a chamber in Wakulla, but now it makes no difference. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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