Don't shoot the messenger.
On vBulletin, a ScubaBoard alternative in the UK where Ross still has posting privileges, the usual ranting was underway (just like SB in the old days).
This link prompted the fight:
A new look at Deep Stops
but that's not the interesting part.
This link to a recent interview with Mark Powell came up if you read all the way to page 9:
and it was fascinating! Well worth the 1h20m.
And this little nugget was buried at 19 to 25 minutes into the interview:
DAN is doing something closer to the "Bubble Model vs Gradient Factor" study that we've all been waiting for since Spisni!
It's not quite (it's GF vs. GF), but the implications for deep stops are very suggestive.
And it's not definitive. Nobody died. I don't think anybody got bent. But this came up in the interview, with Powell being cagey about what he could release before DAN publishes the study:
We all bubble. But they didn't deliberately try to bend anyone (unlike NEDU) and apparently few if any divers hit bubble grade 4 with either profile. And the differences between total bubbling with deepish stops and the higher GFLo profile was not statistically significant.
BUUUTT...
Food for thought...
Oh, and Powell now personally dives GF50/XX.
On vBulletin, a ScubaBoard alternative in the UK where Ross still has posting privileges, the usual ranting was underway (just like SB in the old days).
This link prompted the fight:
A new look at Deep Stops
but that's not the interesting part.
This link to a recent interview with Mark Powell came up if you read all the way to page 9:
and it was fascinating! Well worth the 1h20m.
And this little nugget was buried at 19 to 25 minutes into the interview:
DAN is doing something closer to the "Bubble Model vs Gradient Factor" study that we've all been waiting for since Spisni!
It's not quite (it's GF vs. GF), but the implications for deep stops are very suggestive.
And it's not definitive. Nobody died. I don't think anybody got bent. But this came up in the interview, with Powell being cagey about what he could release before DAN publishes the study:
We all bubble. But they didn't deliberately try to bend anyone (unlike NEDU) and apparently few if any divers hit bubble grade 4 with either profile. And the differences between total bubbling with deepish stops and the higher GFLo profile was not statistically significant.
BUUUTT...
Food for thought...
Oh, and Powell now personally dives GF50/XX.