Diving Above Sea Level, Basic Decompression Theory And Applications).

Bruce Wienke's Diving experience includes the Caribbean, South Pacific, Asia, Europe, Australia, inland and coastal United States, Hawaii, plus polar Arctic and Antarctic on OC and RB systems in technical, scientific, military, and research work. He advises on decompression algorithms across exploration, recreational, technical, commercial, scientific, and research sectors. He developed the LANL decompression algorithm (RGBM), a dual phase approach to staging diver ascents over extended ranges of applications (altitude, nonstop, decompression, multiday, repetitive, multilevel, mixed gas, saturation). Many modern dive computers incorporate the modified and iterative RGBM into staging regimens for OC and RB mixed gas diving. In lock step, computer software and platforms offer RGBM for technical dive planning and profile analysis.

A number of Training Agencies employ RGBM tables, software, and meters for hands on training and education within their Standards and Procedures. He also brought the LANL Data Bank online for profile collection, model analysis and risk assessment. The LANL Data Bank is similar to DAN PDE Data Bank but focuses on tec diving data. The LANL Data Bank presently contains 3000+ mixed gas, OC and RB, decompression profiles with 23 cases of DCS. The Data Bank has been instrumental in diving success worldwide and is a valued component of C&C mission dive planning over the past 18 years.

Wienke is a Program Manager in the Nuclear Weapons Technology/ Simulation And Computing Office at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). His interests include hydrodynamics, applied mathematics, particle and nuclear physics, numerical methods, parallel computing, thermonuclear burn, decompression algorithms and models, radiation and gas transport, bubble dynamics, and phase mechanics, publishing some 240+ technical and research papers in related Journals.

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Wienke is Workshop Director/Trainer with the National Association Of Underwater Instructors (NAUI), and served on the Board Of Directors (Vice Chairman for Technical Diving, Technical and Decompression Review Board Member). Wintertime he hobbies ski racing, coaching, and teaching. As a Racing Coach and Instructor, he is certified United States Ski Coaches Association (USSCA) and Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA. He competes in the United States Ski Association (USSA) Masters Series, holding a 8 NASTAR racing handicap while winning a number of USSA Masters and NASTAR Championships in his age class. He quarterbacked the Northern Michigan Wildcats to an NCAA-II National Championship in 1963, garnering All American Honors. He was drafted to play in the NFL. Other pastimes include tennis, windsurfing, and mountain biking.

Wienke received a BS in physics and mathematics from Northern Michigan University, MS in nuclear physics from Marquette University, and PhD in particle physics from Northwestern University. He belongs to the American Physical Society (APS), American Nuclear Society (ANS), Society Of Industrial And Applied Mathematics (SIAM), South Pacific Underwater Medical Society (SPUMS), Undersea And Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS), and American Academy Of Underwater Sciences (AAUS).

Above: Wienke US Navy Seal

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Technical Committee Member of the American Nuclear Society. He serves as Reviewer/Editor for the Journal of Computational Physics, Physical Review, Transport Theory And Statistical Mechanics, Applied Physics, Nuclear Science And Engineering, Nuclear Fusion, Journal Of Quantitative Spectroscopy And Radiation Transport, Nuovo Cimento, and Journal of Applied Physics. He is also Associate Editor for the International Journal Of Aquatic Research And Education, and Contributing Editor of Sources, NAUI training periodical plus Advanced Diver Magazine, well known technical diving magazine periodical.

Eurotek 2010 presentations by Bruce Wienke
'Decompression Algorithms - The good the bad & the Ugly more info >>
'Profile Data Banks - Valuable technical diving resources' more info >>
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