Decoplanner / DPlan from GUE

[MikeFerrara]

lucid once bubbled...
This is ripped from http://www.divetekadventures.com/Technical_PyleStops.htm

Here is my method for incorporating deep safety stops:

1) Calculate a decompression profile for the dive you wish to do, using whatever software you normally use.

2) Take the distance between the bottom portion of the dive (at the time you begin your ascent) and the first "required" decompression stop, and find the midpoint. You can use the ambient pressure midpoint if you want, but for most dives in the "technical" diving range, the linear distance midpoint will be close enough and is easier to calculate. This depth will be your first deep safety stop, and the stop should be about 2-3 minutes in duration.

3) Re-calculate the decompression profile by including the deep safety stop in the profile (most software will allow for multi-level profile calculations).

4) If the distance between your first deep safety stop and your first "required" stop is greater than 30 feet, then add a second deep safety stop at the midpoint between the first deep safety stop and the first required stop.

5) Repeat as necessary until there is less than 30 feet between your last deep safety stop and the first required safety stop.

Sound like a description of Pyle (sp?) stops developed by Richard Pyle. I don't think he even uses this method since the advent of decompression software that incorporates deep stops. Better than nothing though I think.

 

[ericfine50]

Should be interesting to see what Weinke's RBGM looks like when he releases it.

Eric

 

[100days-a-year]

BRW is onboard and if you ask him a question he seems to answer as best he can.VPlanner and now Vplanner2 for me when not rotting my brain with Oceanic.