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> On Wed, 25 Jan 1995, Leslie Wilk wrote:
> > I'm puzzled by your final comment. As you state, Buhlmann's tables are 
> > built from the algorithm by forcing the initial descent to be
instantaneous, 
> > but they are USED by including the descent time in your time-at-depth. 
> > From a TABLE point of view that is conservative. With respect to the
ALGORITHM, 
> > if you constrain it to a fixed descent rate (say, 60 fpm), shouldn't
exceeding 
> > that rate get you to depth with a lower tissue-load than the algorithm
computes, 
> > thus also being conservative? 

Reply from Ronnie Bell;

> Wel, IMHO not really. It seems you are making the assumption that the 
> consarvatism added to the true dive time/depth gas loading calculations 
> is "fluff". 

???I don't understand how you arrived at that conclusion. I would certainly 
never dismiss conservatism as "fluff". My question was a purely mathematical 
one, and is independent of any conservatism that might already have been built 
into the algorithm. 

Les Wilk

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