Advanced/Technical diving and mechanical aptitude

[mike_s]

Yeah, but when your freshly rebuilt reg decides to free flow at 60 fsw, you die. .

If you're an incompetent diver, then yes you will die.

 

[halocline]

Yeah, but when your freshly rebuilt reg decides to free flow at 60 fsw, you die.

If you think this is the case, you really ought to start over with some decent training.

See what I meant about brainwashing?

 

[Rhone Man]

If you're an incompetent diver, then yes you will dive.

Amusing typo, or cynical philosophy?

 

[mike_s]

Amusing typo, or cynical philosophy?

definitely an amusing typo. corrected.


It also could have been caused by wearing flip flops.... ya never know.

 

[AfterDark]

The one time I used a different regulator it stopped delivering air at 70'. I made a free ascent and lived. I'm glad it didn't free flow, I would have died!:sarcasm:

 

[northen diver]

If you think this is the case, you really ought to start over with some decent training.

See what I meant about brainwashing?

I was being sarcastic

 

[fnfalman]

I'm sorry but I had to laugh when I read this. I did well enough in basic calculus and statistics to get into vet school, but the thought having to go back and take "diffy-q" 15 years later sends cold chills down my spine. Please tell me there's a place for the right brained in the tech diving world. More power to you if that stuff comes naturally to you.

Deco algorithms are generated by numerical analysis.

 

[mike_s]

I was being sarcastic

 

[M_Bipartitus]

Deco algorithms are generated by numerical analysis.

Parameters of the coupled system of differential equations representing tissue loading are indeed generated by numerical analysis. Fortunately, if tissues are not considered highly coupled, and are assumed to be "linear" ( as far as Diff-eqs go), it's easy to solve those equations and use exponential functions with half-times. The statement that tissue loading is changing at a rate determined by the difference of the tissue and ambient partial pressures is the statement of a differential equation.

 

[halocline]

I was being sarcastic

Sorry, I didn't catch that. There are plenty of people that do think you'll die if your regulator fails, hence the whole "life support" BS, with it's companion line "Isn't your life worth this $1000 reg?"