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I'm sure others will respond in much greater detail, but as to Robert's
posting:

> Since there is a lot of theoretical modeling that goes on in the tek side
> of the industry, and some of it is even checked against real
> life situations (e.g., Buhlmann et al), has anyone thought
> about trying to build physical structures (tissue) that would approximate
> human tissue?  It would seem like -- in theory -- you could
> build a small box which contained synthetic tissues of varying
> densities that approximated the different tissues found in
> humans, and have sensors that can detect levels of saturation
> in the syntetic tissues.  You take the box with you when you
> dive and you'd have a physical model of saturation.  It would
> really shine on multi-level, bounced, multi-day dives...

Agarose gel (I think) has been used for this purpose by Yount and others
in theis studies on bubble-formation and -dissolution physics.

Aloha,
Rich

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