Aaron528
Contributor
Recreational tables have an average rate of 1:5000 to 1:10000 DCS hits for people diving well within these limits. The incident rate is statistically higher where people have performed multiple shallow dives with shortish surface intervals. Tables are NOT known theory, they do NOT model accurately what happens in the body. They are nothing more than a statistical tool used to bring the risk down to an acceptable level.
FWIW, the dives I did that started this debate began very early in the morning and none of them was more than 30 mins. There was a minimum of an hour in-between the first 2 dives and more than 2 hours before dive 3 started. At least another hour in-between each afternoon dive. The 5th dive(looking back in my log) was short and shallow. I realize now that the standards were violated, but I'd like to repeat that this seemed to be an exception made for an unusual circumstance and I happened to be there. I did not get the sense that shop did that on a regular basis.