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Understanding Modern Dive Computers and Operation

Protocols, Models, Tests, Data, Risk and Applications

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. B. R. Wienke

    1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

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  2. T. R. O'Leary

    1. NAUI Technical Diving Operations, Riverview, USA

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  • Single source textbook on dive computers for convenient and quick usage
  • Lists pertinent references for further reader education
  • Links applications and exercises to dive computers for reader understanding
  • Gives short history of diving and dive computers for connectivity to textbook
  • Includes color diving pictures to frame dive computer usage
  • Tabulates actual profiles and risks for connectivity to tec and rec diving and planning
  • Lists marketed dive computers and diveware to give diver possible choices
  • Can serve as a textbook for courses on dive computers and diving applications
  • Useful handbook for dive supervisors, instructors and technical divers

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science (BRIEFSCOMPUTER)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Diving and Dive Computer History

    • B. R. Wienke, T. R. O’Leary
    Pages 1-8

  3. Modern Dive Computers

    • B. R. Wienke, T. R. O’Leary
    Pages 9-16

  4. Basic Computer Models

    • B. R. Wienke, T. R. O’Leary
    Pages 17-30

  5. Ad Hoc Dive Computer Protocols

    • B. R. Wienke, T. R. O’Leary
    Pages 31-41

  6. Computer Profile Data

    • B. R. Wienke, T. R. O’Leary
    Pages 43-49

  7. Wet and Dry Tests and Data

    • B. R. Wienke, T. R. O’Leary
    Pages 51-64

  8. Risk Estimators

    • B. R. Wienke, T. R. O’Leary
    Pages 65-80

  9. Computer Diveware

    • B. R. Wienke, T. R. O’Leary
    Pages 81-93

  10. Bubble Issues and Dive Computer Implementations

    • B. R. Wienke, T. R. O’Leary
    Pages 95-102

  11. Recap

    • B. R. Wienke, T. R. O’Leary
    Pages 103-111

  12. Applications and Exercises

    • B. R. Wienke, T. R. O’Leary
    Pages 113-129
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About this book

This brief provides a complete yet concise description of modern dive computers and their operations to date in one source with coupled applications for added understanding. Basic diving principles are detailed with practical computer implementations. Interrelated topics to diving protocols and operational procedures are included. Tests, statistics and correlations of computer models with data are underscored. The exposition also links phase mechanics to dissolved gases in modern decompression theory with mathematical relationships and equations used in dive computer synthesis. Applications focus upon and mimic dive computer operations within model implementations for added understanding.


This comprehensive resource includes a complete list of dive computers that are marketed and their staging models, as well as a complete list of diveware marketed and their staging algorithms, linkage of pertinent wet and dry tests to modern computer algorithms, a description of two basic computer models with all constants and parameters, mathematical ansatz of on-the-fly risk for surfacing at any dive depth, detailing of statistical techniques used to validate dive computers from data, and a description of profile Data Banks for computer dive model correlations.


The book will find an audience amongst computer scientists, doctors, underwater researchers, engineers, physical and biosciences diving professionals, explorers, chamber technicians, physiologists and technical and recreational divers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

    B. R. Wienke

  • NAUI Technical Diving Operations, Riverview, USA

    T. R. O'Leary

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