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frushour@uc*.in*.ed* writes:
> 
> RE: Richard Soderberg question
> According to DEEPER INTO DIVING by John Lippmann, the PADI "Dive Planner" 
> tables were developed from the US Navy tables.  PADI commissioned one of
> their corporate affiliates, Diving Science and Technology Corporation to
> rework the Navy tables to make then more suited to sport divers (make
> them more conservative).  The principle change was to reduce the allowable
> NDL limits.

Actually, there's a lot more information involved.  The DSAT was
considered by some to be a radical change from the USN model, and its
major focus was to allow multi-level diving and reduce surface
intervals.  This allowed much more aggressive diving.  The tradeoff
was to eliminate decompression diving.

PADI recently (at DEMA) published a revised report on the development
and validation of the DSAT model.  It is available at no charge from
PADI HQ.

Cheers,

David Story                        	        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
story@sg*.co*					Mountain View, California

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