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> The case I am primarily thinking of is not so much treating symptomatic
> bends, but rather the case of being unable to complete deco for some
> reason and needing to do a missed-deco procedure. These are reasonably
> well established for things like USN air tables, but when you move into
> mixed gas, what do you do ?
> 
> Most dive computers today will simply lock up if you miss deco, whereas,
> a bubble model computer could give you enough info to find a fresh
> gas source and get back in. It could probably also give you an estimate
> of when after surfacing to start expecting symptoms to develop!!!!

Interesting points.  I guess the question really is; how well do any of 
these different deco. models reflect what's going on in the body?  I'm 
never sure how much confidence I should have in theoretical explanations 
compared with how much in real-world experience.  Both are useful.

Aloha,
Rich

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