----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Rodriguez" <mikey@ma*.co*>
To: "Gliviak, Jozef" <Jozef.Gliviak@co*.co*>
Cc: "'Sean T. Stevenson'" <ststev@un*.co*>; <techdiver@aquanaut.com>;
<kirvine@sa*.ne*>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 6:13 AM
Subject: RE: decompresion gas selection and procedures


> The reason you're getting quicker deco with Abbys and Z-plan is
> because the model they use appears to be wrong.  The latest
> available evidence shows that deco is more efficient, faster,
> and less damaging to your body if done on heliox or trimix rather
> than nitrox.  Of course, the whole field of decompression theory
> is still (and probably will always be) experimental and we're
> the experiments.
>
> >May be the teories on which are these programs based must be rewieved.
>
> Exactly.

Which leads us back to the crux of the biscuit:

What is the source for the proper deco zeitgeist?

I have been playing with GAP of late, and I kinda like it, but, we have to
wonder. It always and still puzzles me why helium should take longer to
decompress than nitrogen. This according to all information and software
available to me.

Scott

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