ALADIN ALADIN SPORT PLUS User manual

OPERATING MANUAL
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SWISS MADE BY UWATEC AG
THE SYSTEM
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Active Light
Feet
SPORT PLUS

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Operating scheme
Operating scheme
for surface functions
Sleep
Surface Sleep
Ready od.
Surface
Battery
capacity
1
2
3
54
5sec
(or 3 min)
(or 3 min)
3s
(or 3 min) (or 3 min)
NO STOP
depth dive time
max. depth deco info
automatically
DIVEPLAN
DIVEPLAN
input stage
LOGBOOK
LOGBOOK
input stage
NO STOP
B and E B and + B and –

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The following symbols are used in the operating manual:
Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result
in death or serious injury.
This operating manual makes use of the following icons to indicate especially important comments:
Remarks: Informations and tips which are important for optimal use of the functions of
your Aladin®Sport Plus.
- + E
B
Operating instruction for manual input
Example: bridging contacts B and E
Flashing display
Important remarks concerning signal words and symbols
January 2000, Copyright by Uwatec Switzerland
WARNING

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Safety considerations
Uwatec®Aladin®Sport Plus
You must carefully read and understand this entire manual before using your Aladin®Sport Plus.
Diving has many inherent risks. Decompression sickness is among the most
serious of those risks. Even if you follow the instructions of this manual in a
careful manner, it is still possible that you may be seriously injured or die from
decompression sickness or some other inherent risk of scuba diving. Unless
you are fully aware of these risks and are willing to personally accept and
assume responsibility for those risks, do not use the Aladin®Sport Plus!
The Aladin®Sport Plus is a sophisticated dive computer to assist a trained and certified diver in making
decisions concerning dive planning and execution. As with any tool, the Aladin®Sport Plus may be misu-
sed if the following safety and operational precautions are not strictly followed. If they are followed,
careful use of the Aladin®Sport Plus can increase your diving enjoyment and reduce your risk of decom-
pression sickness. If they are not, you will be placing yourself at serious risk for decompression sickness.
While the Aladin®Sport Plus is a technically advanced tool based on a mathematical model of decom-
pression sickness, neither it nor any other diving computer (or table) can exactly monitor the physiological
changes that occur in your body as you dive. In addition, each diver will vary in his or her susceptibility to
decompression sickness. In addition to this, each individual diver‘s own susceptibility may vary from day to
day. Combined with the fact that decompression modelling is an inexact science, and must be based to
some extend on certain unproven assumptions, it is emphasis on you, the individual diver, to dive respon-
sibly and to carefully follow all standard safe diving practices as well as the recommendations contained
in this manual.
Guidelines for the use of Aladin®Sport Plus:
The following guidelines for using Aladin®Sport Plus are derived from the latest medical research and the
recommendations of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences for diving with diving computers.
Following these guidelines will greatly increase your safety while diving, but cannot guarantee that decom-
pression sickness will not occur.
–The Aladin®Sport Plus is designed for dives made with compressed air only. Do not use the Aladin®Sport
Plus for dives made with nitrox or other mixed gases.
–In accordance with the recommended maximum diving limit of all instructional agencies, do not dive
deeper than 130 feet. The danger of nitrogen narcosis has to be taken into consideration. The Aladin®
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Sport Plus gives no warning about this.
–On all dives with the Aladin®Sport Plus, make a safety stop for at least 1 to 3 minutes within the 10 to
15 feet zone.
–Always make the deepest dive of the day first when repetitive dives are planned, and for each dive make
sure that the deepest portion of that dive is done at the beginning of the dive.
–All divers using dive computers to plan dives and indicate or determine decompression status must use
their own computer which they take with them on all dives.
–If the Aladin®Sport Plus fails at any time during the dive, the dive must be terminated, and appropria-
te surfacing procedures (including a slow ascent and a 3 to 5 minute safety stop) should be initiated
immediately.
–On any given dive, all divers in a buddy group must follow the most conservative dive computer for that
particular dive.
–Repetitive dives after exchanging the dive computer: Wait at least 24 hour before you start with the
repetitive dive.
–Always observe the optical alarm signals of the Aladin®Sport Plus. Avoid situations of increased risk for
decompression sickness which are marked with a warning sign in this operating manual.
–The decompression algorithm contained in the Aladin®Sport Plus only serves for emergency or unin-
tended decompression.
–Never use the Aladin®Sport Plus for repetitive, “square“dives deeper than 60 feet. A square dive is a
dive that is performed for its duration at a uniform depth.
–You MUST follow the ascent rates as indicated by the Aladin®Sport Plus, and should the computer fail
for any reason, you must ascend at a rate of no greater than 30 feet per minute.
–You MUST be familiar with all signs and symptoms of decompression sickness before using the Aladin®
Sport Plus! Seek IMMEDIATE treatment for decompression sickness should any of these signs or sym-
ptoms occur after a dive! There is a direct correlation between the effectiveness of treatment and the
delay between the onset of symptoms and the treatment for decompression sickness.
–Never dive the Aladin®Sport Plus to the limits. Neither the Aladin®Sport Plus, nor any other diving com-
puter or decompression table should be pushed to its limit. Give yourself a margin of safety by always
leaving at least a few minutes in the “no-stop“box before making your ascent.
–Avoid repeated ascents and descents (yo-yo diving) while using the Aladin®Sport Plus.
–See also page 13-14, 40-42, 65.