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'''Bühlmann tables''' are [[decompression tables]]<ref name=deco>{{cite book |title=Decompression-Decompression Sickness |last=Bühlmann |first=AA |year=1984 |publisher=Springer-Verlag |___location=Berlin New York |isbn=0387133089 }}</ref> calculated using the '''Bühlmann decompression algorithm''', which was developed by Dr. [[Albert A. Bühlmann]], who did research into [[decompression]] theory at the Laboratory of Hyperbaric Physiology at the University Hospital in [[Zürich]], [[Switzerland]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Bühlmann, AA |title=[Experimental principles of risk-free decompression following hyperbaric exposure. 20 years of applied decompression research in Zurich] |language=German |journal=Schweizerische Medizinishe Wochenschrifft |volume=112 |issue=2 |pages=48–59 |year=1982 |pmid=7071573 }}</ref><ref name=spums1999>{{cite journal |author=Wendling, J; Nussberger, P; Schenk, B |title=Milestones of the deep diving research laboratory Zurich |journal=South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society journal |volume=29 |issue=2 |year=1999 |issn=0813-1988 |oclc=16986801 |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6003 |accessdate=2009-04-02 }}</ref> The results of Bühlmann's research that began in 1959, was published in a 1983 German book entitled Decompression-Decompression Sickness.<ref name=deco/> The book was regarded as the most complete public reference on decompression calculations and was used soon after in [[dive computer]] [[algorithm]]s.

In 1987 the [[Sub-Aqua Association|SAA]] Bühlmann System was developed. This system used the dive tables and a set of rules so that people could dive safely and stay below their [[No Decompression Limit|no-decompression limit]]. The tables are still used today and are very popular, many dive computers still use the ZHL-8 algorithm and many tables are based on the ZHL-16 algorithm. These calculations also include considerations for repetitive<ref name=deco/><ref>{{cite journal |author=Bühlmann, AA |title=Decompression after repeated dives |journal=Undersea Biomedical Research |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=59–66 |year=1987 |issn=0093-5387 |oclc=2068005 |pmid=3810993 |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/3081 |accessdate=2008-04-25 }}</ref> and [[altitude diving]].<ref name=deco/><ref>{{cite journal |author=Böni, M; Schibli, R; Nussberger, P; Bühlmann, AA |title=Diving at diminished atmospheric pressure: air decompression tables for different altitudes |journal=Undersea Biomedical Research |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=189–204 |year=1976 |issn=0093-5387 |oclc=2068005 |pmid=969023 |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/2750 |accessdate=2008-04-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Bühlmann, AA; Schibli, R; Gehring, H |title=[Experimental studies on decompression following diving in mountain lakes at reduced air pressure] |language=German |journal=Schweizerische Medizinishe Wochenschrifft |volume=103 |issue=10 |pages=378–83 |year=1973 |month=March |pmid=4144210 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Bühlmann, AA |title=[Decompression problems in diving in mountain lakes] |language=French |journal=Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Sportmedizin |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=80–3; discussion 99–102 |year=1989 |pmid=2799365 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Bühlmann, AA |title=[Decompression during lowered air pressure] |language=German |journal=Schweizerische Medizinishe Wochenschrifft |volume=114 |issue=26 |pages=942–7 |year=1984 |pmid=6087447 }}</ref>