SPECIAL
DIVE TABLE AND COMPUTER PROCEDURES
There
are currently no recommendations for
driving to altitude after diving, so
the most prudent practice is to be conservative.
The longer you wait before you go, the
lower your risk. You may check with
a local dive center, resort or instructor
to see if divers in the area follow
a particular recommended or protocol.
If
you get cold or exercise a lot during
a dive, you may end your dive with more
excess nitrogen in your body than calculated
by your dive table or computer. When
using the RDP for planning a dive in
cold water or under conditions that
may be more strenuous than usualy, plan
our dive as though the depth were 4
metres/10 feet deeper than it actually
is.
How
you handle this with a dive computer
depends on the computer. A few sophisticated
models track the water temperature and
your breathing rate and automatically
readjust to more conservative no stop
times when necessary. For others, you
can set the computer to be more conservative
by using the altitude setting and setting
it to an altitude higher than, you actually
are, or by connecting the dive computer
to a personal computer (requires special
hardware and software). However. you
have to make these setting before the
dive. If you can t set your computer
to be more conservative
1.When
using the RDP. you need to use special
dive procedures above what altitude?
2 The minimum recommended surface interval
for flying after diving is
3.Using the RDP. under cold and strenuous
conditions you plan your dive as though:
a. It were at altitude.
b. It were 4 m/10 ft deeper than actual.
c. It were 4 m/10 ft shallower than
actual.
d. None of the above.
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