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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 19:34:45 -0600
To: techdiver@terra.net
From: chris@ab*.co* (Christopher M. Parrett)
Subject: Re: DCS and injury sites

>With this in mind, I'm curious as to how the circulation in the body
>shifts over time so that the entire body get slowly perfused and how
>this varies during the period of a dive.  I would think that many of
>the "currently operating" peripheral circulatory systems get shut down
>- as I said, most are already shut down (even in a dry suit your limbs
>will be cooler than your core).  I'd assume that some amount of
>ongassing occurs in the peripheral system prior to this shutdown and
>the offgassing therefore takes much longer.
>
>Has anyone taken this into account in their deco modelling???
>
>-Carl-
>

V1.40  of Abyss (still in Beta testing) adds a thermal compensator to our model.
This allows for progressive cooling and warming over the course of the dive,
and adds penalties or bonuses to the resulting deco as is appropriate.


Christopher M. Parrett, President, Abysmal Diving Inc.
Makers of ABYSS, Advanced Dive Planning Software.
6595 Odell Place, Suite G. Boulder CO, 80301
Ph, 303-530-7248, Fx, 303-530-2808
ftp://abysmal.com/users/abysmal http://www.emi.net/boynton/abyss/abyss.html

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