Info The DSAT Recreational Dive Planner (RDP), 1994

Document Name: Development and validation of no-stop decompression procedures for recreational diving: The DSAT Recreational Dive Planner
Authors: R.W. Hamilton, Raymond E. Rogers, Michael R. Powell, Richard D. Vann, with Richard Dunford, Merrill P. Spencer, Drew Richardson

Attached is the 1994 report from DSAT on the Development of the Recreational Dive Planner (RDP).
It used to be available on the Rubicon site, which is now defunct.

Filename: DSAT_1994_The_Recreational_Dive_Planner_OCR_opt
File Format: Adobe PDF
Size: 14,323 kB
Pages: 126

 

[Kendall Raine]

I read this report some twenty years ago because someone on another board was bashing PADI for developing a bad table-the criticisms were complete BS. The research behind the DSAT table was extensive and done by real people in deco research. It was likely the best researched recreational schedule outside of the Navy at the time, and may be so to this day.

Thanks for posting it.