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> > I have developed quite an interest in the DCIEM tables after reading Lippman's > Deep into Diving. I recently saw an article in Underwater USA giving a US > address to get them. I had asked Bill Mayne for a source but he didn't have > one. I just received my tables in the mail today and thought I would post the > address to order them from. For anyone else with an interest. > > Publisher and Distributer: > > Universal Dive Techtronics, Inc (UDT) > Suite 201 > 2691 Viscount Way > Vancouver, British Columbia V6V 1M9 > Fax: 604-270-7278 > Tel: 604-270-0812 > > Instructors may purchase the NAUI edition DCIEM tables from > NAUI Canada > 762 Gordan Baker Road > Toronto, Ontario M2H 3B4 > Fax: 416-493-1036 > Tel: 416-493-6284 > > United States: > > East: Lifeguard Systems, Inc. > P. O. Box 548 > Hurley, New York 12443 > Tel: 914-331-3383 > > (I ordered from these folks last Wednesday, the table arrived yesterday.) > > West: Go Dive Products > 164 North Bascom Ave. > San Jose, California 95128 > Tel: 408-294-3383 > > Australia: Hyperbaric Treatment Centre - Royal Adelaide Hospital > North Terrace > Adelaide, South Australia 5000 > Tel: (08) 223-0230 > > Jamaica: Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory - Hyperbaric Centre > P. O. Box 35 > Dicovery Bay, Jamaica, W.I. > Tel: (809) 973-2241 > > French edition: Quebec Diving Federation (FQAS) > P. O. Box 1000 > Station M > Montreal, Quebec H1V 3R2 > Tel: 514-252-3009 > > > I paid US$ 9.95 plus $1.25 shipping and handling. The tables come on a very > nice heavy-duty plastic card (BC pocket size), along with an instruction > pamphlet and an instructors teaching guide. I don't have a computer and > dive tables all the time. I've been using the latest NAUI tables and don't > like the idea that they are just backed off US Navy tables. I've meet several > US Navy UDT-SEAL people and they just aren't normal people. Physically they > are in outstanding shape. (Definitely in some other than normal mental state, > but then look what they do...B-) ) Any validation using people like them > just doesn't seem like playing fair to someone like me. (I sit in front of > a terminal all day with a phone glued to my ear. I am not at the peak of > my physical conditon. Probably like a lot of you!) Lippman is very neutral > on all the tables presented in Deeper into Diving but he does make it clear > that the DCIEM tables are well validated and have the lowest DCS incidence > going. Validations were done by doing cold-water working dives and adjusted > to eliminate some problems with the initial model. > > I used a copy of the tables (via Xerox magic) on a series of five dives over > four days this past weekend. It is normal for us to make a 3 minute stop at > 15 ft for safety. Only one dive was even moderately deep and that was to > 72 ft. We only dove to the limit of the NAUI table on the 72 ft dive. Their > were no major difference between the two tables in any dive except for the > 72 ft. dive. The NAUI table called for no stop. The DCIEM table called for > a 5 minute stop at 10 ft. All dives were square profile calculations. We > tend to go to the deepest point to begin with on our dives and work our way > back into the shallows. Stops are usually taken sitting on the bottom at 15 > ft, using a hangline off our float, or holding onto a kelp plant, and > establihing positive buoyance so we don't drag the plant down. We're very > careful to use a big plant so we don't pull it loose. We didn't get bent this > weekend but it would have been interesting to do a doppler eval after the > deep dive. > > Anyway, for those interested there are the sources. > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@fulton.inset.com'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@fulton.inset.com'. > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@fulton.inset.com'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@fulton.inset.com'. > >
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