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> 
> I attended a diving medicine seminar this past summer on Treasure
> Island (San Fransico). It was something of a who's-who in diving
> medicine. It almost scared me into selling my dive equipment :-)
> 
> Many diving professionals freely commented on diving tables. Every
> one of them recommended the DCIEM tables for sports divers. No
> exception. A few MD's/physiologist/cardiologist specificly advised
> against use of the PADI tables/wheel, suggesting it was too liberal.
> 
> I guess the autopsy slides of damaged cerebral/spinal/bone tissue
> from fatal DCS hits left an impression. I, too, am now using the
> DCIEM tables. (or occasionally Buhlmann in my Aladin dive computer)
> 
> 
> -Joseph Crunk

I understand that MRI's show this type of damage quite often. Next time
I'm in the scanner I'll have them look for it. We have another guy here
who dives also. I'll try and get him in the magnet and look for lesions.
Said never looks at the tables and bounce dives like crazy (spearfishing).
I also don't dive with him for that reason.

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