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1) Splitting a dive from the dive list context menu
2) Importing photos from the Internet

Signed-off-by: Willem Ferguson <willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
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@ -1717,8 +1717,14 @@ photographs that need to be loaded into _Subsurface_ and click the _Open_ button
image::images/LoadImage2_f20.jpg["FIGURE: Load images option",align="center"]
This brings up the time synchronization dialog, shown below. The time
synchronization is not perfect between the dive computer used during a dive,
If photos are imported from the Internet, provide a URL pointing to a single photograph.
If the URL points to a directory, no images are imported: photos from the Internet
need to be imported one at a time. If photos are loaded from the Internet, _Subsurface_
assumes there is an Internet connection each time this photo is viewed within
_Subsurface_.
Having selected the local folder ot Internet image to be imported, the time synchronization dialog appears (see image below). The time
synchronization is not perfect between the dive computer used during a dive
and the camera used during that same dive. These two devices
often differ by several minutes. _Subsurface_ attempts to synchronize these two devices
so that the exact times of photographs can be used to position photographs on
@ -2589,7 +2595,6 @@ restored to view by selecting Unhide all events from the context menu.
Several actions on either a single dive, or a group of dives, can be performed using the Dive List
Context Menu. It is found by selecting either a single dive or a group of dives and then right-clicking.
// TODO: NEEDS REPLACEMENT
image::images/ContextMenu.jpg["Figure: Context Menu",align="center"]
The context menu is used in many functions described below.
@ -2753,10 +2758,25 @@ below shows the depth profile of two dives that were merged:
image::images/MergedDive.png["Example: Merged dive",align="center"]
==== Split selected dives
On some occasions, a diver reaches the surface and immediately dives again. However,
it may happen that the dive computer does not register a new dive, but continues
the previous dive due to the brief surface interval. In this case it is possible to
split a dive so that the two dives are shown as independent dives on the *Dive List*.
If this operation is performed, _Subsurface_ scans the selected dive(s) and splits the
dive at points during the dive where the depth is less than a metre.
==== Load image(s) from file(s)
This topic is discussed in the section: xref:S_LoadImage[Adding photographs to dives].
==== Load image from web
This topic is discussed in the section: xref:S_LoadImage[Adding photographs to dives].
==== Undo dive manipulations
Important actions on dives or trips, described above, can be undone or redone.
This includes: _delete dives_, _merge dives_, _renumber dives_ and _shift dive times_.
This includes: _delete dives_, _merge dives_, _split selected dives_, _renumber dives_ and _shift dive times_.
To do this after performing any of these actions, from the *Main Menu* select
_Edit_. This brings up the possibility to _Undo_ or _Redo_ an action.