DOMAIN / SCUBA
Decompression research for real-world diving.
OpenDeco studies the models, procedures and data used in recreational and technical scuba, with particular attention to where theory, computer implementation and observed outcomes diverge.
What we cover
The scuba programme spans ordinary recreational exposures through technical mixed-gas decompression. It treats the dive computer as an implementation of a model and configuration, not as a black box with an authoritative answer.
- No-stop and staged decompression
- Bühlmann and gradient-factor configurations
- Bubble-model implementations where reproducible
- Helium and mixed-gas exposures
- Repetitive and multiday diving
- Ascent behaviour and gas switches
- Dive-computer profile data and interoperability
- Real-world exposure distributions
Start here
- BenchmarkSee how documented models and configurations behave across standardized exposures.
- ResearchRead current scuba analyses, papers and methods notes.
- DataExplore public dive datasets and what their outcome labels can actually support.
- SoftwareInspect the open tools used to parse, model and compare dive profiles.
What the scuba programme asks
- How much of the difference between two dive computers is model family, configuration or implementation detail?
- Where do common decompression configurations diverge most strongly on the same exposure?
- How should repetitive and multiday exposure be represented when biological effects may outlast dissolved-gas bookkeeping?
- How representative are historical experimental profiles of modern recreational and technical diving?
Current work
Published and active OpenDeco work in scuba appears here when it has a real project record, source trail and status. Draft ideas without a defined research record do not appear as public projects.
No public scuba projects yet.
OpenDeco keeps domain labels visible because evidence can travel across fields more easily than its assumptions do. Cross-domain comparison is useful only when the population, pressure history, endpoint and model context remain explicit.