Rational decompression using computer programs

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Divers use tables with decompression modes when conducting diving descents. Currently, tables are being replaced by underwater computers, into which modern mathematical models of decompression algorithms are programmed. None of the existing models takes into account the individual characteristics of the organism, the processes occurring in the body under conditions of high pressure of the gas and water environment, and does not describe the real processes well enough.
Modern diving computers are able to supply a diver with a large amount of information. Based on data on depth, time, number of dives and time of surface intervals, they help to plan dives, inform when it is necessary to make an ascent, assign, if necessary, safety stops and calculate the time before the flight by plane.
Currently, it is safe to say that a computer is simply necessary for a diver. His health, and sometimes his life, depends on it.

About the authors

A. M. Yarkov

Center for Underwater Research of the Russian Geographical Society

Author for correspondence.
Email: y-andrei@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9349-0085

Andrey M. Yarkov – Cand. of Sci. (Med.)., Doctor of Diving Medicine 

3-A, Zakharyevskaya St., St. Petersburg, 191123

Russian Federation

S. A. Bychkov

Center for Underwater Research of the Russian Geographical Society

Email: markis86@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8506-7815

Sergei A. Bychkov – diving medicine doctor 

3-A, Zakharyevskaya St., St. Petersburg, 191123

Russian Federation

S. G. Fokin

Center for Underwater Research of the Russian Geographical Society

Email: s.fokin@urc-rgs.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4351-1703

Sergey G. Fokin –research diver, executive director 

3-A, Zakharyevskaya St., St. Petersburg, 191123

Russian Federation

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