On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 18:29 +0000, Pedro Neves wrote: > Hi all: > > While on the process of helping Willem (and all the others) with the > Subsurface manual, I keep wondering if we should change the > terminology that refers to "no-deco" dives (and NDL, etc.). > > I Personally hate the fact that people (and books) refer to some dives > as “no decompressions dives” when in reality they should be called > “minimum decompression dives”. > Technically speaking, decompression is a reduction in ambient > pression, which occurs at the end of every single dive. > > To me, the difference between dives is that some dictate that only a > “minimum deco” (ascent rate in the region of 3 to 10 m/min and a > “safety stop”) and others dictate one or more “decompression stops”. > Reffering to minimum deco dives as no-deco dives helps, in my > oppinion, to perpetuate the notion that decompression is a somewhat > "obscure" and "esoteric" thing that matters only to experienced or > "technical" divers and that it's relevant only on some of out dives.
Well, the industry appears to move to "no-stop" instead of "no-deco" as terminology for dives that don't require deco stops (as others have pointed out) and I am fine with adjusting our language towards that. NDL (which could stand for "no-stop dive limit" :-) ) appears to be a reasonably common term - I'll be willing to move to a better term if someone comes up with one, but until then I think we should stick with NDL. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
