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| Originally Posted by NotDeadYet DCIEM are pretty old tables. The Canadian DND defense archive (it was on the web, not sure if it is still available) has a lot of papers on their development and testing. IIRC they had moved on to a newer model a few years ago. |
The DRDC archive can be found
here. We have permission for their documents but have not added many yet. We are still working with them on getting the papers scanned. Our collection is
here.
This table has a ton of bubble data behind it and aims at getting people out of the water with few bubbles. I think this is great when evaluating profiles when a PFO is involved.
Another model that has quite a bit of bubble data behind it is the PADI model. Those papers can be found
here.
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| Originally Posted by NotDeadYet As the post above shows conservative doesn't necessarily mean longer, how and where the deco is distributed, repetitive diving, allowable ascents, etc., all come into play. DCAP tables have a very good incident rate, something like 1000hrs of trimix diving with no incidences of DCI in one test. Have a search for Tonawanda II or M11F6 models by Hamilton Research, you might have to check some technical journals (IIRC the UHMS journal had some stuff on it) though for any info. |
The Tonawanda II model was shown to have some
higher grade bubbles on excursions that would be more concerning to me when thinking about a PFO. (Only one paper from
CHISAT so far, sorry.)