ALADIN ALADIN SPORT User manual

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OPERATING MANUAL
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Operating Manual Aladin®Sport
You must carefully read this entire manual before using your Aladin®Sport.
The Aladin®Sport is a sophisticated decompression tool to assist a trained and certified diver in
making decisions concerning dive planning and execution. As with any tool, the Aladin®Sport may be
misused if the following safety and operational precautions are not strictly followed. If they are
followed, careful use of the Aladin®Sport can increase your diving enjoyment and reduce your risk of
decompression sickness. If they are not, you will be placing yourself at serious risk for decompression
sickness.
While the Aladin®Sport is a technically advanced tool based on a biophysical model of decompression
sickness, neither it nor any other diving computer (or table) can actually 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. Not only that, but each individual diver‘s own susceptibility may vary from
day to day. Combined with the fact that decompression modelling is an inexact science, and of
necessity must be based at least partly on certain unproven assumptions, it is incumbent upon you,
the individual diver, to dive responsibly and to carefully follow all standard safe diving practices as well
as the admonitions contained in this manual.
Safety considerations
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 fashion, 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!
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Operating Manual Aladin®Sport
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.
The following symbols are used in the operating manual:
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Operating instruction for manual input (Example: bridging contacts B and E)
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December 1995, Copyright by Uwatec Switzerland
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Guidelines for the use of Aladin®Sport:
The following guidelines for using Aladin®Sport 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 decompression sickness
will not occur.
– In accordance with the recommended maximum diving limit of all instructional agencies, do not dive
deeper than 130 feet.
– The decompression algorithm contained in the Aladin®Sport only serves for emergency or unintended
decompression.
– On all dives with the Aladin®Sport, make a safety stop for three to five minutes within the ten to thirty feet
zone.
– Never use the Aladin®Sport for repetitive, “square“ dives deeper than 60 feet. A square dive is a dive that
is performed for its duration at a uniform depth.
– Always make the deepest dive of the day first when repetitive dives are planned, and for each successive
dive make sure that the deepest portion of that dive is done at the beginning of the dive.
– The Aladin®Sport is designed for dives made with compressed air only. Do not use the Aladin®Sport for
dives made with nitrox or other mixed gases.
– All divers using dive computers to plan dives and indicate or determine decompression status must use
their own computer.
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– If the Aladin®Sport fails at any time during the dive, the dive must be terminated, and appropriate 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.
– You should not dive for a period of twenty-four hours before activating the Aladin®Sport to use it to plan
or control your diving.
– You MUST follow the ascent rates as indicated by the Aladin®Sport, and should the computer fail for any
reason, you must ascend at a rate of no greater than 60 feet per minute.
– You MUST be familiar with all signs and symptoms of decompression sickness before using the Aladin®
Sport! Seek IMMEDIATE treatment for decompression sickness should any of these signs or symptoms
occur after a dive! There is a direct correlation between the efficacy of treatment and the delay between
the onset of symptoms and the treatment for decompression sickness.
– Always observe the optical alarm signals of the Aladin®Sport. Avoid situations of increased risk for
decompression sickness which are marked with a warning sign in this operating manual.
– Never dive the Aladin®Sport to the limit. Neither the Aladin®Sport, nor any other diving computer 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.
Safety considerations
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LIST OF CHAPTERS
I INTRODUCTION 1
II ALADIN®SPORT – SURVEY 9
III DIVING WITH ALADIN®SPORT 23
IV DIVING AT REDUCED RISK WITH ALADIN®SPORT 39
V LOGBOOK 49
VI DIVE PLANNER 55
VII INTERFACE 63
VIII TROUBLE SHOOTING 65
IX APPENDIX, Maintenance, Technical Information, Warranty 69

I Introduction 1
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I INTRODUCTION
1. Aladin®Sport - Safe No-Stop Diving ______________________________________ 2
2. Aladin®Sport – Your Personal Companion ______________________________________ 3
3. The Calculation Model ZH-L8 ADT 3.1 Description _________________________ 5
3.2 Advantages ________________________ 7
4. Safety in Diving ______________________________________ 8

I Introduction
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The proven no-stop dive computer Aladin is furnished
with a new, revolutionary calculation model which
makes it even safer and more comfortable. The Ala-
din of the new generation is called Aladin®Sport and
completes the Aladin family consisting of the Aladin®
Air X Nitrox integrating air data and the
decompression computer
Aladin®Pro.
The Aladin®Sport is designed for
no-stop diving, but also provides
the necessary information for safe diving in case
of a decompression dive.
Aladin®Sport displays all
information necessary
for safe diving in such
a manner that it is
easy to survey and to
be understood at once.
1. Aladin®Sport - Safe No-Stop Diving
The convincingly simple handling and the high
comfort of carrying speak for themselves from
the first dive.
The Aladin®Sport of the new
generation brings you in possession
of a device that guarantees more
safety, quality and
comfort in diving.
Read this operating manual carefully and to
the last page.

I Introduction 3
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• Compared to all previous models the Aladin®Sport
is much more of a personal instrument, which
considers the individual conduct of the diver.
Different conducts of diving buddies can lead to
distinctive differences in the display of the no-stop
and decompression information, since risk
situations (violations of the diving rules) may have
a strong influence by the anticipation of
physiological processes. On the other hand, Ala-
din®Sport “rewards” a diving conduct following
the rules with highest diving comfort.
• The diver‘s workload is incorporated in the
decompression calculations as a constant value.
The new calculation model considers for the
calculation of the surface intervals and the
decompression information for repetitive dives that
the physical performance at the surface is smaller
than during the dive.
• The Aladin®Sport uses optical alarms in risk
situations or dangerous conduct.
2. Aladin®Sport - Your Personal Companion
Aladin®Sport considers your individual reactions
during the dive, the cooling of your skin and includes
your workload by a constant value in the calculations.
The latest results of medical and technical research
were taken into consideration. As a special feature
the calculation model also considers the formation of
micro-bubbles in the venous circulation depending on
workload and skin temperature. This has led to the
development of a unique, adaptive calculation model.
Aladin®Sport was exclusively designed for diving with
compressed air and especially for diving in the no-
stop range. It distinguishes itself from its previous
models and other commercial diving computers in a
number of significant ways.
• The ZH-L8 ADT decompression calculation model
considers eight body tissues as well as the diver‘s
conduct and the ambient conditions. This allows
for an even more precise calculation of a modeled
risk for decompression sickness which can lead to
greater diving safety.