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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!monymsys!david
- From: david@monymsys.mony.com (David Kozinn)
- Subject: How do professionals decompress (was Terminology (and other things))
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.185720.16765@monymsys.mony.com>
- Keywords: SCUBA, BSAC
- Organization: Mutual of New York
- References: <1992Nov20.165902.3569@jet.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 18:57:20 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <1992Nov20.165902.3569@jet.uk> evdg@jet.uk (Erik van der Goot) writes:
- >
- >With respect to Lee Vogt's posting I would like to say that:
- >a:
- >carrying out dives with planned decompression stops has got nothing to do with
- >professional diving or recreational diving. As a matter of fact, most
- >professional divers would never do planned 'in water' decompression stops.
- >they get hauled out of the water and plonked into a surface decompression
- >facility.
-
- I'd never given much thought to what the "pros" do, so this is an interesting
- comment to me.
-
- A couple of questions: What kind of problems, if any, are associated
- with climbing out of the water and jumping into a chamber as opposed to doing
- in-water decompression? How critical is the time factor? (i.e., do you have x
- minutes from surface time to get into the chamber to prevent a bends hit?)
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