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Scuba

Scuba decompression

Research and data on recreational and technical scuba, including staged decompression, mixed gas, repetitive diving, dive-computer profiles and decompression-model behaviour.

Technical diver carrying multiple cylinders during an underwater decompression stop
Technical diving during a decompression stop.NOAA / D. Kesling (public domain)

Scope

The scuba programme spans ordinary recreational exposures through technical mixed-gas decompression. It treats the dive computer as an implementation of a model and configuration, not as a black box with an authoritative answer.

  • No-stop and staged decompression
  • Bühlmann and gradient-factor configurations
  • Bubble-model implementations where reproducible
  • Helium and mixed-gas exposures
  • Repetitive and multiday diving
  • Ascent behaviour and gas switches
  • Dive-computer profile data and interoperability
  • Real-world exposure distributions

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What the scuba programme asks

  1. How much of the difference between two dive computers is model family, configuration or implementation detail?
  2. Where do common decompression configurations diverge most strongly on the same exposure?
  3. How should repetitive and multiday exposure be represented when biological effects may outlast dissolved-gas bookkeeping?
  4. How representative are historical experimental profiles of modern recreational and technical diving?

Current work

Published and active OpenDeco scuba work appears here when it has a defined research record, sources and status.

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No OpenDeco scuba projects are public yet.

Relevant datasets, models and methods remain available through the OpenDeco research catalogue.

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