The Recreational Dive Planner (or RDP) is a decompression table in which no-stop time under-water is calculated. The RDP was developed by DSAT and was the first dive table developed exclusively for recreational, no stop diving. There are three types of RDP: the original table version first introduced in 1988, The Wheel version and the latest electronic version or eRDP introduced in 2005.
The low price and convenience of many modern dive computers mean that many recreational divers only use tables such as the RDP for a short time during training before moving on to use a diving computer.
