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    A dive computer, personal decompression computer or decompression meter is a device used by an underwater diver to measure the elapsed time and depth during...
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    rate earlier in the dive, and the bottom time must be reduced accordingly. In the case of real-time monitoring by dive computer, descent rate is not...
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    purpose of the dive, which may include a snorkel when swimming on the surface, a cutting tool to manage entanglement, lights, a dive computer to monitor decompression...
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    prevent it, and divers almost universally use decompression schedules or dive computers to limit their exposure and to monitor their ascent speed. If DCS is...
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    particular dive profile, decompression tables for more general use, or be implemented in dive computer software. During the 1980s the US recreational diving community...
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    Diving equipment, or underwater diving equipment, is equipment used by underwater divers to make diving activities possible, easier, safer and/or more...
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    decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as badly injuring another dive tender. Built as Deep Sea Driller, it was the first-of-class...
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  • decompression tables and in personal dive computers to compute no-decompression limits and decompression schedules for dives in real-time, allowing divers to...
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    personal dive computer. Several common types of dive profile are specifically named, and these may be characteristic of the purpose of the dive. For example...
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    safe use of dive computers that was generally accepted by the scuba diving community, and consequently the opposition to dive computers dissipated, numerous...
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