Great presentation! What seems to me as a layman (diver) and not a scientist, is that this shines little to no light on the real quandary of the deep stop question that NEDU brought to the forefront. Does high bubbles in fast tissues matter as much as the bubble counter crowd seems to think? I think a better look at the relative values of fast vs. slow tissue supersaturation and instance of DCI is the question that needs an answer. I understand that there are major ethical issues that prevent DAN from conducting the type of studies that NEDU does, but I question the value of people pointing to bubble counts in healthy subjects vs counting cases of DCI. I don’t think that the presence of higher bubble counts has really been brought into question regarding shallow stop proponents, I think it is the premise that counting bubbles in blood is a reliable metric for assessing DCI risk that is being called into question. Not sure how DAN would go about studying this, but I’d love to see it.
