Decompression Stop Data as Quality Control for Mapping

Decompression hangs are often treated as survey-dead time, but six hours at 6 meters is a stationary, calibrated acoustic reference window that EchoQuilt can turn into the highest-quality control data in your entire dive. This post shows cave diving survey teams how to use decompression stops as structured quality control for the sound-quilts captured during the bottom phase.

Technical cave dives end with long decompression obligations. The CDC Yellow Book entry on scuba diving decompression illness summarizes how deco protocols govern multi-hour stop profiles after deep cave work. A typical WKPP-style Wakulla push includes multiple hours at shallow stops. A 6-hour hang at 6 meters is standard on deeper Florida and Yucatán cave dives.