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Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 10:02:35 -0400
Subject: Re: Trimix Computers
From: Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*>
To: "Michael J. Black" <mjblackmd@ya*.co*>
CC: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
We are still waiting Dr. Black. How do you adjust your deco planning
application for your personal tolerances? What method do you use?

You seem to have a hard time responding to this simple question. Why is
that? The 700+ divers on this list await your wisdom.

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> From: "Michael J. Black" <mjblackmd@ya*.co*>
> Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 10:55:30 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*>
> Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject: Re: Trimix Computers
> 
> You have proved you're a moron Cobb, so stop trying to teach.
> MJB
> 
> --- Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*> wrote:
>> OK, Dr. Black, Tom Mount, it's time for you to teach us. When you are
>> working up your dives with Decoplanner or other tables programs which use
>> "conservation factors" how do you fellows determine what these factors are?
>> 
>> In Decoplanner both ends of the gradient are adjustable, the variances you
>> can apply to a profile are practically infinite. Dr. Black, being a man of
>> Science, surly you must have a thoughtful answer to this question?
>> 
>> Pray tell us, oh learned ones, how you fellows determine how to adjust this
>> profile? Clearly you think my technique is either inadequate or completely
>> wrong. So could you tell the list how you calculate your gradients or
>> "conservation" factors?
>> 
>> Tom, how did you know that you needed the "less conservative" VR-3? What if
>> you had gotten bent on the first dive with this unit without trying the
>> "more conservative" VR-3 first? Would this not indicate that you
>> "intentionally" bent yourself, too?
>> 
>> Help us poor, dumb, uninformed idiots. Please grace us with your years of
>> experience and thousands of dives. Surely there must be something you
>> fellows can contribute to the common good?
>> 
>> Jim
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>> Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/
>> 
>>> From: "Michael J. Black" <mjblackmd@ya*.co*>
>>> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:57:20 -0700 (PDT)
>>> To: Aquanaut Mail <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
>>> Cc: Tom Mount <TOM.MOUNT@in*.at*.ne*>
>>> Subject: Re:  Trimix Computers
>>> 
>>> "Jim Cobb" <IMAMORON@ci*.co*> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Shoot, half the fun of deco diving is doing the pre-dive
>>>> calculations.  It up's the ante in that you are experimenting
>>>> with your own body finding out what the best profile is for
>>>> you. When you start getting indications of your limitations,
>>>> i.e. joint pain, slobitus, that tired feeling, fried lungs,
>>>> etc. you adjust the calculations until you are dialed in.
>>> 
>>> Oh man, talk about a winner!  Techdiver's poster boy coughs up
>>> a doozy.  Cobb, you need help, LOTS OF HELP.
>>> 
>>> MJB
>>> 
>>> (P.S.  Thanks Tom...I wouldn't have seen this if I hadn't
>>> clicked on your post.  Cobb's posts aren't worth the click.)
>>> 
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