DCI and Denial - my little experience.

[PeeBee]

Mary I agree, everything I've read about VR3s tells me they are safe , conservative computers. I wish I could afford one, and a CCR but that's for later. 2 kids, an exwife and my own mortgage to support for a little while longer.

I recognise that deeper, longer, more technical dives all carry greater risk, but the profile you described was something that I would have done on a 15L OC with a 32% mix with a pony as bail out, certainly I'd happily go to 34M, it didn't seem to me an agressive profile. I am fairly certain my Suunto and yours would have said no deco although I would have added in a few minutes at 15m as well as the usual 3 at 6.

Lies damn lies and statistics but I'd love to see some analysis that says "of n divers who completed typical 40m sub one hour, no deco dives" x% of OC divers were bent, whereas x+/- % of CCR Divers were bent. What I am really wondering is in like for like situations where OC is practical are CCRs more or less safe or is there no difference?

This is quite a big piece of analysis, the variables in terms of conditions, water temp, fitness etc are enormous but I have this gut feel that we may be missing something which will all come clear with 20/20 hindsight.

Pete

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Mary

I wonder whether more technical divers are more clued up on the symptoms and about getting advice, I also suspect that they are far more into incident analysis than your average OC club diver so therefore more stories are out in the open.

I would add that they seem to be more open about sharing their experiences which could disproportionally affect the information out there.

This may stem from the fact that it is still early days for CCR and therefore people are keen to learn from one another without judging the human factors (I've not expressed that very well, but I hope it comes over OK).

Cheers, Paul