Suunto Mosquito Tissue Compartment Question

[Crisspy Fiver]

Hi All.

Your have to forgive my lack of knowledge here but I have a question.

When I down load my Suunto onto the PC (Mosquito) the software shows me a graph with nine tissue compartments. These range from Fast to Slow. When I move the cursor over the dive profile I can see these compartments move up. As the tissue compartments become loaded the bar graph moves closer to 100%. I can work out (correctly I hope) that when the graph is over 100% I am now into deco.

Please consider that during a dive I cant see these graphs. All I can see is the amount of deco the computer is telling me to do. Its only when I do the down load that I can see the bar graph. At what percentage would be the ideal rate to exit the water safely. I am sure the computer is designed to be safe at say exiting at 99% but that is pushing it a bit far.

Thanks

Jamie

[Tesseract]

Originally Posted by Crisspy Fiver

Please consider that during a dive I cant see these graphs. All I can see is the amount of deco the computer is telling me to do. Its only when I do the down load that I can see the bar graph. At what percentage would be the ideal rate to exit the water safely. I am sure the computer is designed to be safe at say exiting at 99% but that is pushing it a bit far.

This article should bring you much enlightenment:

http://www.dmscuba.com/Understanding_M-values.pdf

Basically though, your computer is there to do exactly what you were doing when you were looking at your profile. It is monitoring those theoretical tissues and telling you what to do to stay at a theoretically safe level.

Cheers,
Tesseract