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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 17:07:17 -0700
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
From: "Bruce R. Wienke" <brw@la*.go*>
Subject: WKPP 220/20 RGBM TMX Schedule with He or Ni Switches

           Gentlemen;
>> >>> >
>> >>> >      Tim O'Leary passed your "deco help" message and specifically a
>> >>> >   request for a RGBM trimix schedule calculation for tmx16/50 at
>> >>> >   220 fsw for 20 minutes, with a switch to either 50/50 nitrox or
>> >>> >   heliox at 70 fws, and pure oxygen at 20 fsw.  For simplicity,
>> >>> >   ascent and descent rates are 30 fsw/min.  Notice deeper stops
>> >>> >   within phase RGBM, and total times less than haldane of comparable
>> >>> >   conservatism -- moderate conservatism in this case.
>> >>>
>> >>>        We are in the process of publishing some trimx and helitrox
>>Tables
>> >>>     for ranged mixtures.  We have been diving RGBM schedules for awhile,
>> >>>     here at LANL and NAUI Tec.  We can do other schedules (within
           reason, of course).
>> >>> >
>> >>> >   Bruce Wienke
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         dive number =  1  altitude =     0.00 ft
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         RGBM Trimix Version
>> >>> >         B.R. Wienke/Los Alamos National Laboratory
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         --dive profile--
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         surface breathed nitrogen = 0.79
>> >>> >         manuever  1  depth =   0.00 fsw  time =     0.00 min
>> >>> >         manuever  2  depth = 220.00 fsw  time =     3.67 min
>> >>> >         manuever  3  depth = 220.00 fsw  time =    20.00 min
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         trimix = 0.50 helium  0.34 nitrogen  switches =  2
>> >>> >         switch 1 depth =  70.00 fsw helium = 0.00 nitrogen = 0.50
>> >>> >         switch 2 depth =  20.00 fsw helium = 0.00 nitrogen = 0.00
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         --adjusted rc =  0.757 micrometer--
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         - excursion to depth =   220.00 fsw          -
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         - time at inital depth =    20.00 min
>> >>> >         --------------------------------------------
>> >>> >         - stop -  depth -  wait  - tissue - tension
>> >>> >         -    1 - 160.00 -   0.00 -   1.67 - 172.60 -
>> >>> >         -    2 - 150.00 -   0.00 -   1.67 - 170.42 -
>> >>> >         -    3 - 140.00 -   1.00 -   1.67 - 154.86 -
>> >>> >         -    4 - 130.00 -   1.00 -   3.33 - 144.95 -
>> >>> >         -    5 - 120.00 -   1.00 -   3.33 - 137.43 -
>> >>> >         -    6 - 110.00 -   1.00 -   3.33 - 130.02 -
>> >>> >         -    7 - 100.00 -   1.00 -   3.33 - 122.69 -
>> >>> >         -    8 -  90.00 -   2.00 -   6.67 - 111.32 -
>> >>> >         -    9 -  80.00 -   3.00 -   6.67 - 101.33 -
>> >>> >         -   10 -  70.00 -   1.00 -   6.67 -  92.39 -
>> >>> >         -   11 -  60.00 -   2.00 -   6.67 -  78.04 -
>> >>> >         -   12 -  50.00 -   2.00 -  13.33 -  70.31 -
>> >>> >         -   13 -  40.00 -   3.00 -  13.33 -  61.52 -
>> >>> >         -   14 -  30.00 -   4.00 -  13.33 -  51.56 -
>> >>> >         -   15 -  20.00 -   5.00 -  26.67 -  40.14 -
>> >>> >         -   16 -  10.00 -   9.00 -  26.67 -  30.29 -
>> >>> >         ---------------------------------------------
>> >>> >         - total time surface        =    39.67 min
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         dive number =  1  altitude =     0.00 ft
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         RGBM Trimix Version
>> >>> >         B.R. Wienke/Los Alamos National Laboratory
>> >>>
>> >>> >         --dive profile--
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         surface breathed nitrogen = 0.79
>> >>> >         manuever  1  depth =   0.00 fsw  time =     0.00 min
>> >>> >         manuever  2  depth = 220.00 fsw  time =     3.67 min
>> >>> >         manuever  3  depth = 220.00 fsw  time =    20.00 min
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         trimix = 0.50 helium  0.34 nitrogen  switches =  2
>> >>> >         switch 1 depth =  70.00 fsw helium = 0.50 nitrogen = 0.00
>> >>> >         switch 2 depth =  20.00 fsw helium = 0.00 nitrogen = 0.00
>> >>> >
>> >>>           - excursion to depth =   220.00 fsw          -
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         - time at inital depth =    20.00 min        -
>> >>> >         --------------------------------------------
>> >>> >         - stop -  depth -  wait  - tissue - tension
>> >>> >         -    1 - 160.00 -   0.00 -   1.67 - 172.60 -
>> >>> >         -    2 - 150.00 -   0.00 -   1.67 - 170.42 -
>> >>> >         -    3 - 140.00 -   1.00 -   1.67 - 154.86 -
>> >>> >         -    4 - 130.00 -   1.00 -   3.33 - 144.95 -
>> >>> >         -    5 - 120.00 -   1.00 -   3.33 - 137.43 -
>> >>> >         -    6 - 110.00 -   1.00 -   3.33 - 130.02 -
>> >>> >         -    7 - 100.00 -   2.00 -   3.33 - 117.43 -
>> >>> >         -    8 -  90.00 -   2.00 -   6.67 - 108.94 -
>> >>> >         -    9 -  80.00 -   3.00 -   6.67 -  99.57 -
>> >>> >         -   10 -  70.00 -   2.00 -   6.67 -  90.79 -
>> >>> >         -   11 -  60.00 -   3.00 -   6.67 -  78.78 -
>> >>> >         -   12 -  50.00 -   4.00 -  13.33 -  70.40 -
>> >>> >         -   13 -  40.00 -   5.00 -  13.33 -  61.19 -
>> >>> >         -   14 -  30.00 -   6.00 -  13.33 -  51.02 -
>> >>> >         -   15 -  20.00 -   7.00 -  26.67 -  39.37 -
>> >>> >         -   16 -  10.00 -   8.00 -  40.00 -  29.70 -
>> >>> >         --------------------------------------------
>> >>> >         - total time surface        =    49.67 min
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         total dives processed =   2
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>


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