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Karl E. Huggins
Karl E. Huggins is an American decompression researcher and author of a set of air decompression tables for reduced risk and multi-level repetitive diving based on the US Navy tables modified to avoid Doppler ultrasound detectable vascular bubble production. He developed the algorithm used by the first commercially successful microprocessor-based decompression computer, the Orca Edge, based on the US Navy decompression algorithm derived by Robert D. Workman (decompression researcher), Robert D. Workman, but taking all six tissue compartments (not just the 120 minute compartment) into account when calculating residual nitrogen for multi-level and repetitive dives. Education Huggins enrolled in Biological Oceanography at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, with courses in aquatic leadership. During this period, he took a course in scuba diving under Lee Somers in 1976, followed by further training in underwater technology and chamber operations. While on the underwater technol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decompression Table
There are several categories of decompression equipment used to help divers Decompression practice, decompress, which is the process required to allow divers to return to the surface safely after spending time underwater at higher ambient pressures. Decompression obligation for a given dive profile must be calculated and monitored to ensure that the risk of decompression sickness is controlled. Some equipment is specifically for these functions, both during planning before the dive and during the dive. Other equipment is used to mark the underwater position of the diver, as a position reference in low visibility or currents, or to assist the diver's ascent and control the depth. Decompression may be shortened ("accelerated") by breathing an oxygen-rich "decompression gas" such as a nitrox blend or pure oxygen. The high partial pressure of oxygen in such decompression mixes produces the effect known as the oxygen window. This decompression gas is often carried by scuba divers i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
