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Decompressing with the US Navy

At last year’s RF4, Dr. David Doolette dropped a few remarks about how Bühlmann with gradient factors might not be the be-all and end-all of decompression models when it comes to very deep and long technical and cave dives. He encouraged divers to look into the US Navy’s Thalmann algorithm.

Here’s my piece for GUE’s InDepth magazine explaining what this is all about – an interesting variation on traditional Haldanean models that has been around since the 1980s, more or less ignored by the civilian dive community. Buckle up for some theory!

Notes from Rebreather Forum 4

I had the pleasure and the honor to cover RF4 for DAN Europe last month. It was an amazing experience meeting the Who’s Who of technical diving, hyperbaric science, and diving technology. I certainly learned a lot, met some really cool people who do great things, and took home a whole list of ideas for new articles.

Here are three blog posts I wrote to summarize what went on on each of the three main days of the conference.

Thanks are due to Michael Menduno and his team for their fantastic work organizing the event, and to DAN Europe for putting me in charge of reporting. Stay safe and happy reading!