simonk999
Contributor
This is a followup to an earlier thread, that I couldn't find. That original thread, as I remember, asked whether the speed of one's descent, presuming no equalization problems, mattered much.
While browsing the web for other things, I ran across this article from the Canadian diving mag that deals with exactly this question:
http://divermag.com/archives/nov2000/divedoctor_nov00.html
To summarize, it said that yes, it matters because a fast descent will probably mean that you're going to spend more time at depth (i.e. your avg depth will be deeper), thus loading Nitrogen for longer, thus affecting your dcs prognosis, thus affecting how you should ascend. Etc.
-Simon
While browsing the web for other things, I ran across this article from the Canadian diving mag that deals with exactly this question:
http://divermag.com/archives/nov2000/divedoctor_nov00.html
To summarize, it said that yes, it matters because a fast descent will probably mean that you're going to spend more time at depth (i.e. your avg depth will be deeper), thus loading Nitrogen for longer, thus affecting your dcs prognosis, thus affecting how you should ascend. Etc.
-Simon