Karl E. Huggins

Karl E. Huggins is an American decompression researcher and author of a set of air decompression tables for reduced risk and multi-level repetitive diving based on the US Navy tables modified to avoid Doppler ultrasound detectable vascular bubble production. He developed the algorithm used by the first commercially successful microprocessor-based decompression computer, the Orca Edge, based on the US Navy decompression algorithm derived by Robert D. Workman, but taking all six tissue compartments (not just the 120 minute compartment) into account when calculating residual nitrogen for multi-level and repetitive dives.