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Title: Excellent advanced text
Review: A very good treatment, but aimed at advanced students, practioners, or researchers in the area of decompression physiology. Differential equations and advanced math models are used to discuss the issues of diving decompression. The author presents an overview of the models used for decompression, then advocates changes in our model configuration. He convincingly argues for a change to what he calls a "Thermodynamic" model. (Seems a bit miss-named to me, it is really about phase changes and the energy of bubble formation- not thermodynamics). The text is long on discussion of the aspects of the Thermodynamic model, but fails in providing specifics . . . the author even acknowledges not rushing to print with a specific decompression schedule. There is enough information in the book for an advanced reader to derive the basis of a Thermodynamic model, but the author never puts it all together in a conclusion.
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