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							|  |  |  | SAC		 Surface equivalent air consumption | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 The air consumed during a dive at different | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 depth is adjusted for depth/pressure to give | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 an easy to understand air consumption number | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | OTU		 Oxygen Toxicity Unit - a measurement how O₂ | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 negatively impacts the lung tissue. This number | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 has no unit, the values are rather abstract | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | CNS		 Central Nervous System Oxygen Toxicity - a | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 measurement how O₂ negatively impacts the | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 central nervous system - this is a percentage | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | maxCNS		 the highest CNS value during a dive | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | PO2, PN2, PHe	 These are all partial pressures of the three | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | PO₂, PN₂	 gases Oxygen (O2 or O₂), Nitrogen (N2 or N₂) | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 and Helium (He). | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | O₂%, He%	 The fraction of Oxygen and Helium in a gas. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 The partial pressure is therefore the pressure | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 of the gas times the fraction of the specific | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 component. E.g. a gas with O₂% = 30 (also called | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 30% Nitrox or EAN30) at 30m depth (where the | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 pressure is 4atm) therefore has a PO₂ of | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 4 * 0.30 = 1.2 | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | CSV		 Comma separated values - a common file format | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | TSV		 Tab separated values - a common file format | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Stopdepth	 The depth at which the diver needs to wait for | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 some time in order to "off-gas". Also deco stop. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | WorkPress	 Working Pressure of a tank - the pressure it should | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | StartPress	 Starting Pressure - at the beginning of a dive | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | EndPress	 Ending Pressure - at the end of a dive | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Switch at	 the depth at which the diver wants to switch to | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 a certain gas | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Device ID	 Unique ID for a specific dive computer | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | trip		 dives are grouped into "trips" based on their | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 individual start time. As soon as there are more than | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 48h between dives the automated algorithm will start | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 a new trip | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | UDDF		 standardized file format | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | GFHigh, GFLow	 Gradient Factors of the Buehlman algorithm. These | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 impact the way the deco obligations are calculated | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 in Subsurface. Typically these are between 20 and 100. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 Lower is more conservative (i.e., more deco). It's | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 possible to use values below 20 and above 100 in | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 certain circumstances, but 70/30 is much more common. | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | CC		 Closed circuit - short for "rebreather diving" | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | OC		 Open circuit - traditional scuba | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | CC Set Point	 Rebreathers often are run with a fixed PO₂ - the "set point" | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Bailing out to OC | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 in a rebreather dive the dive switches to their emergency | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 OC equipment | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Auto Group	 automatically arrange dives into trips | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Ceiling		 when the diver is "in deco", i.e., when the diver cannot | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 directly ascend to the surface but has to put in "stops" | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 to give their body time to "off gas" (reduce the amount of N₂ | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 and potentially He in the body), there is a minimum depth | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 they should not climb above - that's the ceiling. Often a | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 diver will do a deco stop well below the ceiling | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Viz		 short for visibility | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | belt, ankle	 weight system types - a backplate is used mostly by tech | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | backplate,	 divers to mount the tanks on (recreational divers have a BC, | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | integrated,	 tech divers usually a backplate and a wing) | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | rbt		 remaining bottom time | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | rgt		 remainint gas time | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | workload	 is this a strenous dive? | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | deepstop	 stop well below the ceiling | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | safety stop	 stop at the end of a recreational dive, typically | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 3 minutes at 5 meters | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | below floor	 event showing dive is below the depth where the dive | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 is acruing additional deco time | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | OLF		 Oxygen Limit Fraction; Suunto specific term for CNS | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | rgbm		 reduced gradient bubble method - alternative deco | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 algorithm | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | non stop time	 amount of time the diver can stay at the current depth | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | NDL		 without going into deco | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | EAD		 equivalent air depth | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | END		 effective equivalent Nitrogen depth | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | EADD		 equivalent air density depth | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | TTS		 time to surface (including deco stop and reasonable | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 ascent speed) |