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If your plan is a no stop dive, I believe you should follow the NDL plan on the computer you have chosen to use, with the conservatism setting you have selected. By remaining below the NDL, you will avoid ever having to deal with a potential missed deco stop.
However, this topic has been discussed on numerous previous occasions. All deco stops are not created equal. This is a 1st clean dive on air to 60 ft. NDLs come from my Shearwater Teric running Buhlmann ZH-L16C, and my Oceanic Geo 2, running both DSAT and PZ+. The NDLs vary widely, from 32 to 57 min. If you were to dive GF 35/75, 40/85, 45/95, or PZ+ to the DSAT NDL of 57 min, you would accrue deco time, somewhere between 17 and 3 min
So, all of these dive times on air at 60 feet are "safe". DSAT is the basis of the PADI Recreational Dive Planner, in use since the late 1980s. It is also the basis for the DSAT decompression algorithm used in Pelagic Pressure Systems computers almost as long.
It makes intuitive sense that a longer exposure should increase your risk for DCS. There is a probabilistic decompression model, SAUL, that has previously been discussed on SB. It allows one to estimate that risk Modern Decompression These are the same exposure times for a first, clean dive to 60 feet on air shown above. The dive times are ranked by probability of DCS, % and chance. SAUL includes a 3 min safety stop.
I hope this has given some of you something to think about. I've been thinking about this topic for quite a while
See the post by @dmaziuk Now it's time to choose a wrist computer. "...it's not really about "safe": it's about risks you're willing to take".
However, this topic has been discussed on numerous previous occasions. All deco stops are not created equal. This is a 1st clean dive on air to 60 ft. NDLs come from my Shearwater Teric running Buhlmann ZH-L16C, and my Oceanic Geo 2, running both DSAT and PZ+. The NDLs vary widely, from 32 to 57 min. If you were to dive GF 35/75, 40/85, 45/95, or PZ+ to the DSAT NDL of 57 min, you would accrue deco time, somewhere between 17 and 3 min
So, all of these dive times on air at 60 feet are "safe". DSAT is the basis of the PADI Recreational Dive Planner, in use since the late 1980s. It is also the basis for the DSAT decompression algorithm used in Pelagic Pressure Systems computers almost as long.
It makes intuitive sense that a longer exposure should increase your risk for DCS. There is a probabilistic decompression model, SAUL, that has previously been discussed on SB. It allows one to estimate that risk Modern Decompression These are the same exposure times for a first, clean dive to 60 feet on air shown above. The dive times are ranked by probability of DCS, % and chance. SAUL includes a 3 min safety stop.
I hope this has given some of you something to think about. I've been thinking about this topic for quite a while
See the post by @dmaziuk Now it's time to choose a wrist computer. "...it's not really about "safe": it's about risks you're willing to take".