4
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, each diver will vary in his or her susceptibility to decompression sickn-
ess. 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 cer-
tain unproven assumptions, it is emphasis on you, the individual diver, to dive responsibly and to careful-
ly 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 for
diving with diving computers. Following these guidelines will greatly increase your safety while diving, but
cannot guarantee that decompression 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.
– Due to the danger of nitrogen narcosis do not dive deeper than 40 m. Aladin
®
Sport Plus does not warn
you in this respect.
