Posted by MHK on March 16, 2001 at 09:12:59:
In Reply to: Deep Stops Beneficial or not? posted by Steve on March 15, 2001 at 22:32:28:
By including deep stops in your profile you reduce or potentially eliminate excessive overpresuure gradients.. Most diver's have been trained to ascend to 15' and then *of gas* at that depth. This theory wholly ignores the differential in the gas loading of the fast tissue compartments..
Substantial doppler testing has proven that larger and/or rapid overpressure gradients create more bubbling which can lead to DCS. Therefore by including deep stops into your profile you limit the overpressure gradient.
I have said often on this list that computers tend to bend you deep and then clean you up shallow, and it is for the above reason that that happens.. By including deep stops into your profile, your computer penalizes you for these stops when in essence these stops are helping to reduce bubble formation..
So by all means include deep stops..
BTW, what gas are you using at the Moody???
Later