Development and Validation of 1.3 ATA PO2-in-He Decompression Tables for the MK 16 MOD 1 UBA

Abstract

The Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) was tasked by PMS-EOD to develop and validate repetitive helium-oxygen (He-O2) decompression tables for use with the MK 16 MOD 1 Underwater Breathing Apparatus (UBA). The present report provides details of the work that was completed to meet this tasking and produce the tables published in NEDU Technical Report 14-01. The report includes a description of the probabilistic model used as the basis for the tables, and presents a novel method to map this model to an easily-used deterministic model. The latter produces a repetitive decompression table set of format similar to that for standard air diving in the current U.S. Navy Diving Manual, but with schedules that incur explicitly controlled estimated DCS risks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA407841

Entities

People

  • Thomas M Johnson
  • Wayne A. Gerth

Organizations

  • United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Breathing Apparatus
  • Chemistry
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Decompression
  • Hydrostatic Pressure
  • Kinetics
  • Mass Spectrometers
  • Measurement
  • Medical Personnel
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Pain
  • Partial Pressure
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Tank Guns

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Underwater engineering and Marine Technology.