User manual: small updates

A section on multicylinder dives has been added.
Just to warm LongJohnSilver's heart, a short section on pSCR has been added.
Please feel free to add to the pSCR section, LongJohn.
Replaced the sidemount figure with obsolete mean depth line.

Fixes #827
Fixes #828

Signed-off-by: willem ferguson <willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
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@ -824,6 +824,7 @@ _Subsurface_ and the information on
cylinders and gases (entered here) determines the behaviour of the dive profile
(top right-hand panel).
[[cylinder_definitions]]
*Cylinders*: The cylinder information is entered through a dialogue that looks
like this:
@ -1635,12 +1636,46 @@ If, later, the external drive with the photos is connected again, the photos can
=== Logging special types of dives
[[S_MulticylinderDives]]
==== Multicylinder dives
_Subsurface_ easily handles dives involving more than one cylinder. Multicylinder diving usually happens
(a) if a diver does not have enough gas for the complete dive in a single cylinder; (b) if the diver
needs more than one gas mixture because of the depth or the decompression needs of the dive. For this reason
multicylinder dives are often used by technical divers who dive deep or long. As far
as _Subsurface_ is concerned, there are only two types of information that need to be provided:
- *Describe the cylinders used during the dive* This is performed in the *Equipment tab* of
the *Dive Info* panel, as xref:cylinder_definitions[described above]. Enter the cylinders one by one,
specifying the characteristics of the cylinder and the gas composition within each cylinder.
- *Record the times at which switches from one cylinder to another was done:* This is information
provided by some dive computers (provided the diver indicated these changes to the dive computer
by pressing specific buttons). If the dive computer does not provide the information, the diver has to
record these changes using a different method, e.g. writing it on a slate.
- *Record the cylinder changes on the dive profile*: If the latter option
was followed, the diver needs to indicate the gas change event by right-clicking at the appropriate point
in time on the *Dive Profile* panel and indicating the cylinder to which the change was made. After
right-clicking, follow the context menu to "Add gas change" and select the appropriate cylinder from
those defined during the first step, above (see image below). If the
*tank bar* button in the ttolbar has been activated, the cylinder switches are also indicated in the
tank bar.
Having performed these tasks, _Subsurface_ indicates the appropriate use of cylinders in the dive profile.
Below is a multi-cylinder dive, starting off with EAN28, then changing cylinders to EAN50 after 26 minutes
to perform decompression.
image::images/multicylinder_dive.jpg["FIGURE: Multicylinder profile",align="center"]
==== Sidemount dives
_Subsurface_ easily handles dives involving more than one cylinder. Sidemount dive logging involves
three steps:
Sidemount diving is just another form of multicylinder diving, often with both or all cylinders having
the same gas mixture. Although it is a popular configuration for cave divers, sidemount
diving can be performed by recreational divers who have completed the appropriate training. Sidemount
dive logging involves, exactly as with multicylinder dives, above, three steps:
- *During the dive, recording cylinder switch events*. Since sidemount diving normally involves two
- *During the dive, record cylinder switch events*. Since sidemount diving normally involves two
cylinders with air or with the same gas mixture, _Subsurface_ distinguishes among these different
cylinders. In contrast, most dive computers that allow gas switching only distinguish among different
_gases_ used, not among different _cylinders_ used. This means that when sidemount dives are downloaded
@ -1666,6 +1701,38 @@ image::images/sidemount1.jpg["FIGURE: Sidemount profile",align="center"]
This section gives an example of the versatility of _Subsurface_ as a give logging tool.
[[S_sSCR_dives]]
==== Semi-closed circuit rebreather (SCR) dives
[icon="images/halcyon_RB80.jpg"]
[NOTE]
Passive semi-closed rebreathers (pSCR) comprise a technical advance in diving equipment that
recirculates the breathing gas that a diver breathes, while removing carbon dioxide from
the exhaled gas. While a small amount (typically a tenth) of the exhaled breathing gas is released into the water,
a small amount of fresh gas is released from the back gas cylinder (typically containing nitrox).
A diver, using a single cylinder of breathing gas can therefore dive for much longer periods than
using a recreational open-circuit configuration. With pSCR equipment, a very small amount of breathing
gas is released every time the breather inhales. With active SCR (aSCR) equipment, in contrast, a small amount of
breathing gas is released continuously from the back cylinder.
To log pSCR dives, no special procedures are required, just the normal steps outlined above:
- Select pSCR in the _Dive Mode_ dropdown list on the *Dive Info* panel.
- pSCR diving often involves gas changes, requiring an additional cylinder.
Define all the appropriate cylinders as described above
and indicate the cylinder/gas changes as described above in the section on xref:S_MulticylinderDives[multicylinder dives].
If a pSCR _Dive Mode_ has been selected, the dive ceiling for pSCR dives is adjusted for the oxygen
drop accross the mouthpiece which often requires longer decompression periods. Below is a dive profile
of a pSCR dive using EAN36 on the back cylinder and oxygen for decompression. Note that this dive lasted
over two hours.
image::images/pSCR_profile.jpg["FIGURE: pSCR profile",align="center"]
[[S_CCR_dives]]
==== Closed circuit rebreather (CCR) dives
@ -1842,7 +1909,7 @@ different colours:
The profile also includes depth readings for the peaks and troughs in the graph.
Thus, users should see the depth of the deepest point and other peaks. Mean depth
is marked with a horizontal red line.
is plotted as a grey line, indicating mean dive depth up to a particular moment during the dive.
[icon="images/icons/scale.jpg"]
[NOTE]
@ -2698,8 +2765,10 @@ This panel allows two type of selections:
** _Show unused cylinders in Equipment Tab_: This checkbox allows display of information about unused cylinders when viewing the *Equipment Tab*. Conversely, if this box is not checked, and any cylinders entered using the *Equipment Tab* are not used (e.g. there was no gas switch to such a cylinder), then these cylinders are omitted from that list.
** _Show average depth_: Activating this checkbox causes _Subsurface_ to draw a red line across
the dive profile, indicating the mean depth of the dive.
** _Show average depth_: Activating this checkbox causes _Subsurface_ to draw a grey line across
the dive profile, indicating the mean depth of the dive up to a particular point in time during
that dive. Normally this is a u-shaped line indicating the deepest average depth just before the
ascent.
* *Misc*: