Article: Adaptive Algorithms

[Red Sea Shadow]

You can view the page at http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/content.php?r=781-Adaptive-Algorithms

 

[WetCell]

The assertion that this model is useful for dive computers only, is untrue. It can also be used to determine maximum safe altitudes that one may go to after a dive. I have been interested in this concept for quite some time because I am a pilot. The general rule (from DAN) is that you wait 24 hours. That is extreme overkill, but it is predicated on the fact that one assumes that the safest course is to just make sure all gas perfusion effects have dissipated. If you know, however, that after a specific dive you could safely fly at 5000', then if you are flying your own plane you can just stay under 5000. Commercial aircraft are pressurized to 8,000' and so that could be calculated for using the Bühlmann model.

 

[Red Sea Shadow]

The assertion that this model is useful for dive computers only, is untrue. It can also be used to determine maximum safe altitudes that one may go to after a dive. I have been interested in this concept for quite some time because I am a pilot. The general rule (from DAN) is that you wait 24 hours. That is extreme overkill, but it is predicated on the fact that one assumes that the safest course is to just make sure all gas perfusion effects have dissipated. If you know, however, that after a specific dive you could safely fly at 5000', then if you are flying your own plane you can just stay under 5000. Commercial aircraft are pressurized to 8,000' and so that could be calculated for using the Bühlmann model.

The assertion that this model is useful for dive computers only, is true. It has nothing to do with flying after diving. Actually researchers assert that diving decompression is different from altitude decompression. Bühlmann model could be used to create profiles for diving at altitude, which is totally different from flying after diving.

For more info on flying after diving (and accelerating the pre-flight surface interval), take a look at the fifteenth issue of Tech Diving Mag.

 

[christinetom]

I am interested in this concept because i am a Pilot.The assumption that this model is useful for dive computers only is false.It can also be used to determine maximum safe altitudes that one may go to after a dive.

 

[kr2y5]

Just curious... is there some formal study of the usefulness of this algorithm, and what is the metric of usefulness that it improves on when compared to ZH-L16C?