Dive Computer and Dive Tables Specialty

a two-day seminar with a special certification:

DIVE TABLE / DIVE COMPUTER Specialist, PADI and/or SSI certified

Objectives:

• in-depth understanding of dive computers:
• to explain, compare and critically evaluate dive computers!
• confident and secure handling of dive computers and dive tables,
• to be able to explain: compartments, M-values, halftimes;
• get to know the backgrounds of: physiology of diving and decompression calculations,
• as well of: commercial off-shore and mix gas diving,
• the basics of NITROX and HELIOX/TRIMIX for TECHNICAL DIVING.
• EAD and MOD calculations, to explain the oxygen clock (%CNS and OTUs),
• to read and explain a recompression table
• get to know specials like: Lorrain-Smith and Meyer-Overton theories
• to understand the correlation between carbon dioxid and an oxygen convulsion

Matters:

• Basics, Recapitulation: Boyle-Mariotte and Henry laws; partial pressure;
• decompression sickness: symptoms, treatment, silent bubbles,
• factors, which influence DCS/DCI; after-effects of diving.
• Theories of Haldane (2:1) and Bühlmann-Hahn (ZH-L16)
• The VERY FIRST DIVING TABLE of the WORLD!
• as well background information concerning the US NAVY (Air) table and the latest DOPPLER tables:
• PADIs RDP, the WHEEL, and the SSI, NAUI and NOAA tables.
• Introduction to decompression calculation with easy examples.
• Simple excercises with tables like the DECO 2000.
• Overview of the functionality of dive computers
• US NAVY and DCIEM mix gas tables, oxygen decompression, surface decompression,
• closed and open circuit rebreathers (SCR and CCR).
• Background info and tables for NITROX diving; PADI/SSI EANx; the role of the N O A A.
• Mountain-Lake diving and flying after diving;
• Dive Simulation on the PC: NDLs, different NITROX mixes, SI;
• what happens with the saturation of a compartment during a safety stop?
• We carve our own Air / Nitrox NDL tables!
• What the hack are Multi-Gas Computers? How do I operate one?
• What's the buzz about the new deco-models like VPM, RGBM?
• Tips and tricks with the new NAUI RGBM tables.
• What's the meaning of: "accelerated deco" and "deep stop"?
• brand-new stuff from the United States Navy diving Table, Revision 6 from 04/2008!

Prerequisites: