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1 Diving at Low Risk with Aladin
®
Air Z
IV Uwatec
®
Aladin
®
Air Z
1.1 Dive at low risk
Aladin
®
Air Z recognizes and reacts “intelligently“ to certain risk situations, although of course it is much
better that each individual diver avoid these higher risk situations altogether. If a decompression accident
does occur, the optional MemoMouse and DataTrak software allows the analysis of the dive profile and
certain risk parameters to provide for more complete information for treatment purposes.
Analysis of the most recent results of decompression research and statistical analysis of diving accidents
involving decompression sickness supports the following guidelines for diving with a reduced risk of
decompression sickness.
The following suggestions are highly recommended:
Neither the Aladin
®
Air Z nor any other diving computer or decompression
table can guarantee that decompression sickness will not occur even if the
computer or table is used correctly and all of the following precautions are
followed.
1.2 Minimizing risk on first dives
The risk can be diminished on first dives by avoiding risk situations and by the selection of a dive profile
'low in bubbles'. This leads to the following recommendations:
– Due to the danger of nitrogen narcosis do not dive deeper than 40 m. Aladin
®
Air Z does not warn you
in this respect.
– On all dives with the Aladin
®
Air Z, make a safety stop for at least one to three minutes within the 3 to
5 metre zone.
– Always make the deepest dive of the day first when repetitive dives are planned, and for each successi-
ve dive make sure that the deepest portion of that dive is done at the beginning of the dive.
– The Aladin
®
Air Z is designed for dives made with compressed air only. Do not use the Aladin
®
Air Z for
dives made with nitrox or other mixed gases.
– If your diving cylinder is equipped with a reserve or “J“-type valve, make certain that the reserve is in an
open (down) position. Failure to keep the reserve open will result in the improper calculation of dive data
depending on tank pressure.
– 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.
