DIVE Version 3_04 Software Manual Documentation for: „DIVE“ copyrights: ALBI & www.SMC-de.com page: 1 Manual and documentation for the desktop deco software: „DIVE“ Version 3_04 (from 01/2019), Version: 03 / 2019 Table of Contents: 1 Quickstart ............................................................................................................................................................. 3 2 Table of pictures ................................................................................................................................................. 5 3 list of tables ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 4 … windowing! ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 5 Disclaimer .......................................................................................................................................................... 10 6 Set Up ................................................................................................................................................................ 10 7 Automated „SET UP“ ....................................................................................................................................... 12 8 Contents of the complete ZIP-archive: .......................................................................................................... 14 9 the DIVE V3 BETA Test Site .......................................................................................................................... 16 10 tested Operating-Systems ........................................................................................................................... 17 11 Conventions .................................................................................................................................................. 17 12 Overview of the commands ........................................................................................................................ 19 13 NDL tables (only for Air and NITROX / EANx) ......................................................................................... 23 14 Simulation of a rec. NDL dive ..................................................................................................................... 25 15 Another simulation: a deco dive ................................................................................................................. 33 16 TEC Diving .................................................................................................................................................... 34 17 „P“ and the details in the graphical screen-plot ....................................................................................... 37 18 Deep Stops / way points .............................................................................................................................. 38 19 Deco Prognosis and „b“ ............................................................................................................................... 39 20 Rebreather (SCR) dives .............................................................................................................................. 39 21 “O” = Time-to-Flight and desaturation ....................................................................................................... 39 22 „d“ versus „a“ ................................................................................................................................................. 40 23 Surface Mode / Dive Planer / rolling NDL Tables .................................................................................... 42 24 respiratory quotient ...................................................................................................................................... 42 25 „L“ = Altitude Diving ...................................................................................................................................... 42 26 Adaption / starting slope to the mountain lake ......................................................................................... 43 27 Error / Out-of-Range .................................................................................................................................... 43 28 Prebreathing .................................................................................................................................................. 44 29 Diluent Hypoxy .............................................................................................................................................. 44 30 Isobaric Counterdiffusion (ICD) .................................................................................................................. 45 31 Hints (more): the Tool Box .......................................................................................................................... 47 32 Expert Mode: the coefficients matrix ......................................................................................................... 48 33 „LS“ = the „last stop“ option ....................................................................................................................... 53 34 „GF“ = the gradient factors ......................................................................................................................... 53 35 VGM, the „Variable Gradient Method“ ....................................................................................................... 54 36 „AR“ = ascent rate ........................................................................................................................................ 56 37 „AD“ = accelerated deco .............................................................................................................................. 56 38 „TA“ = temperature adaption....................................................................................................................... 56 39 „MX“ = matrix with the balanced coefficients ............................................................................................ 57 40 „LAT“ = latency during a mix change ......................................................................................................... 57 41 „W“ = workload .............................................................................................................................................. 58 42 „O2“ = the O2 HT .......................................................................................................................................... 59 43 Water, water, water…. (DI & TE) ............................................................................................................... 59 44 “PDCS” = Probability of Decompression Sickness .................................................................................. 60 45 Update with DIVE V 3_02 (per 07/2018) ................................................................................................... 62 46 The numerical solution of the Trimix Deco-Problem ............................................................................... 64 47 „%P“ = the percent plot ................................................................................................................................ 66 48 „RS“ = the RGBM Simulator ....................................................................................................................... 68 49 Precision of DIVE: ........................................................................................................................................ 69 50 „CLR“ = „CLEAR“, table with the „default“- values ................................................................................ 70 51 Overview of the ASCII interface of DIVE .................................................................................................. 71 52 Planning Alternatives ................................................................................................................................... 71 53 A simple hint for Novice-Experts and -TEC-Divers: ................................................................................ 72 Documentation for: „DIVE“ copyrights: ALBI & www.SMC-de.com page: 2 54 A Way Out of the „NDL“ dilemma? ............................................................................................................ 73 55 Literature and further reading ..................................................................................................................... 75 56 Motivation, history and histories and some back-ground info ................................................................ 76 57 Alphabetical Index ........................................................................................................................................ 79 58 Appendix A: Quality Assurance for DIVE V 3_xx; from: june 2016 ....................................................... 81 59 Appendix B: the ASCII Input/Output Interface ......................................................................................... 86 60 Appendix C: the FIBONACCI coefficients-matrix .................................................................................... 88 1 Quickstart Simulation of a deco dive: after download and un-packing of the DIVE