I think PADI and SSI send out mixed signals in addition to winking when it comes to talking about safety stops and decompression in general. Neither the Navy Tables or the RDP were designed for multilevel repetitive diving. If you are diving your computer and doing several dives over the course of a single outing then the tables and the RDP become irrelevant.
I treat the safety stop as a decompression stop and appreciate the link by boulderjohn. Because I think its wise to do a deep stop in addition to the safety stop at 15-20.
There are examples in the magazines routinely about divers that come down with DCS while diving their computers and not exceeding their NDL. I think it would be prudent to remember that we are dealing here with a bell curve and the science is not that well understood.
PD
I treat the safety stop as a decompression stop and appreciate the link by boulderjohn. Because I think its wise to do a deep stop in addition to the safety stop at 15-20.
There are examples in the magazines routinely about divers that come down with DCS while diving their computers and not exceeding their NDL. I think it would be prudent to remember that we are dealing here with a bell curve and the science is not that well understood.
PD