[PATCH] planning: Add option to have last stop at 6m/20ft

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Apr 2 10:55:01 PDT 2013


Anton Lundin <glance at acc.umu.se> writes:

> On 02 April, 2013 - Anton Lundin wrote:
>
>> On 02 April, 2013 - Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> 
>> > Anton Lundin <glance at acc.umu.se> writes:
>> > 
>> > > When diving in areas where there are risk of boats passing above you,
>> > > its common practise to do the last stop at 6m to better stay out of
>> > > harms way. When doing o2-deco, it doesn't matter for the deco time if
>> > > you are doing all the time at 6m, due to that you don't have any inert
>> > > gas in your breathing gas.
>> > 
>> > I'm not sure our deco algorithm agrees with you...
>> > 
>> > Try this dive profile:
>> > 
>> > 50m  5 min 16/50
>> > 50m 10 min
>> > 
>> > (GF 30/70)
>> > 
>> >   90 min dive time without the box checked
>> > 1933 min dive time with the last stop at 6m
>> > 
>> > Admittedly, I think that shows a bug in our calculations somewhere, but
>> > still, I'd call this a bit more than "doesn't matter for the deco time".
>> 
>> I think you missed the "When doing o2-deco"-part.
>> 
>> Re-run your numbers with o2-deco:
>> 
>> 50  5 min 16/50
>> 50 10 min
>> 5         100
>
> To many 5's in this mail to get it all right. Should of course be 6 m for
> the o2 gaschange.

Yes, I missed that.

Will push.

/D


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