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