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With respect, you seem to be addressing non-decompression diving versus decompression diving, rather than recreational diving versus technical diving. This is bound to confuse any discussion which might be generated from your article.
It's ok to argue for 10 minutes deco on a single tank. .
sure but when I PLAN a dive that requires 10mins of deco, I need to dive the plan as if the 10 mins of deco matter. part of the planning is deco table/algorithm selectionFor me the only grey area is that discontinuity between D and no-D that is created by the different tables and computers. It is quite possible to be in deco status on a given set of tables yet have never been in deco status according to the computer on your arm ... and the other way round.