Recreational Dive Planner

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The Recreational Dive Planner (or RDP) is a decompression table in which no-stop time under-water is calculated. The RDP was developed by DSAT and was the first dive table developed exclusively for recreational, no stop diving.[1] There are three types of RDP: the original table version first introduced in 1988, The Wheel version and the latest electronic version or eRDP introduced in 2005.

The low price and convenience of many modern dive computers mean that many recreational divers only use tables such as the RDP for a short time during training before moving on to use a diving computer. Dive computers are also used as they calculate no-decompression limits based on the whole dive whereas the RDP is much more conservative and assumes a square profile dive where the diver spends the enitre dive at one depth. Although this is much more conservative, dive computers provide much more dive time and therefore are the more popular option with most divers.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hamilton Jr RW, Rogers RE, Powell MR (1994). "Development and validation of no-stop decompression procedures for recreational diving: the DSAT recreational dive planner.". Tarrytown, NY: Diving Science & Technology Corp.. 


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