Talk:Recreational Dive Planner

Merge with Decompression equipment and redirect?

There does not seem to be much scope for expanding this article. • • • Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 16:25, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Rather than remaining a stub forever, the contents could beneficially be merged into Decompression equipment #Recreational Dive Planner and the redirect created. I'd wait a few days just to see if any contrary opinions are expressed. --RexxS (talk) 19:26, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am of the opinion that the subject is notable and that the article can be expanded. Firstly, the decompression algorithm is notable as it represents an early move away from the use of military tables such as the USN and came into existence after a recreational diver (possibly Raymond Rogers) noticed some inherent conservativeness in the USN at shallow depths within so-called recreational diving range. Secondly, the algorithm is still in use as evident by a range of products sold by PADI and by a number of dive computers under brands such as Oceanic. It is also probably the most used decompression algorithm given the size of PADI's market share. I last looked at this article in 2014 and was able to find and download six papers from the Rubicon archive as well as other material online such as a US patent record for ‘The Wheel’. It is also discussed in several books by authors/publishers independent of PADI such as Lippmann’s Deeper into Diving. The current problem with the article is that the first paragraph is essentially the same as the sub-section in Decompression equipment and the remainder of the content is either trivial or off-topic (i.e. the advantages of dive computers). I would envisage the addition of content such as the history of the development of the algorithm which included field testing using human subjects undertaking both openwater and chamber dives and the underlying theory. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 20:16, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]