acreichman
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Hello,
I'm starting to look at decompression diving and I can't seem to wrap my head around some of the theory. I've taken the online DAN classes and I understand that the modern Buhlmann algorithm uses 16 tissue compartments that each have their own half-time for saturation. I get lost when I try to understand how the saturation of each compartment is used to determine deco stops and how gradient factors affect this.
If there are 16 compartments, it seems like there must be a system of determining whether it's more important for fast tissues to be off-gassing at a particular speed (determined by pressure ratio?) but on those stops, won't the slowest tissues continue to on-gas? I think I understand what's happening for a single tissue compartment, but not how the different ones interact.
I read somewhere that the Buhlmann algorithm was open source and went looking for the code or mathematical explanation but I either couldn't find it or it went over my head.
Thanks for your help!
I'm starting to look at decompression diving and I can't seem to wrap my head around some of the theory. I've taken the online DAN classes and I understand that the modern Buhlmann algorithm uses 16 tissue compartments that each have their own half-time for saturation. I get lost when I try to understand how the saturation of each compartment is used to determine deco stops and how gradient factors affect this.
If there are 16 compartments, it seems like there must be a system of determining whether it's more important for fast tissues to be off-gassing at a particular speed (determined by pressure ratio?) but on those stops, won't the slowest tissues continue to on-gas? I think I understand what's happening for a single tissue compartment, but not how the different ones interact.
I read somewhere that the Buhlmann algorithm was open source and went looking for the code or mathematical explanation but I either couldn't find it or it went over my head.
Thanks for your help!