Yep and I downloaded it.  I'm off on another week of out of town work, so
I'll not be able to get to it for a while.  It'll be here and I'll be there.
It will be interesting to see how it compares to the simulator I have for my
Oceanic Data Plus and the output of my Citizen HA.  You never know when a
better tool will come along.  I'll try to be open minded, even if I am
skeptical that anything can replace tables as a learning tool.

Lee

----- Original Message -----
From: "J.M. Vitoux" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Call Me Old Fashioned


> Lee Bell wrote:
>
> > Do you happen to have a website for that or do I need to look it up.  If
> > it's a good learning tool, it's probably worth a look.  I have a
simulator
> > for my Oceanic computer which shows tissue loading as well.  I must
admit
> > that I have not considered it as a learning tool so much as a testing
tool,
> > but I'm not at all sure it would give me the same degree of
understanding
> > that studying the tables, and computers and assorted absorption theories
> > and, of course, discussions by others have.
>
> The url has been given by antoher poster.
>
> As for the usefulness of the the software, it allows to visualize tissue
loading
> for each compartment at any time during the dive. You can scroll rapidly
> throughout all the points and see the compartments saturate / desaturate
in a
> movie like animation.
>
> In a mutlilevel type dive you will typically see the curve change
drastically
> from a 1/x type of curve at the beginning of a dive (very quick saturation
of
> fast compartments), to a convex curve when the diver ascends to moderate
depths
> (quick desaturation of fast compartments, medium fast compartments and
slower
> compartments continue to saturate at their respective pace) to something
like a
> very flat exponential :-) curve towards the end of a very shallow portion
or
> during the SI (fast and medium compartments desaturate faster than the
slower
> ones).
>
> No table can show you that. :-)
>
> Jean-Marc