scuba (version 1.8-0)

deepmine: Extremely Deep Decompression Dive

Description

Contains the dive profile for a long, extremely deep, decompression dive, using mixed gases, in a flooded mine.

Format

An object of class "dive".

Source

Peter Buzzacott.

Details

This dataset contains the dive profile data for an extreme dive in a flooded mine.

This was a dive to 110 metres for 7 minutes, followed by 147 minutes of staged decompression, including 40 minutes in a dry habitat at 4 metres. Five different mixed gases (trimix and nitrox) were breathed.

The diver suffered decompression sickness after this dive. An analysis of the dive profile was presented by Buzzacott et al (2013).

The dataset is an object of class "dive" containing the dive profile. It can be plotted and printed (using plot.dive and print.dive). The nitrogen saturation can be computed using haldane and the cumulative oxygen toxicity using oxtox.

References

Buzzacott, P., Papadopoulou, V., Baddeley, A., Petri, N. and Lind, F. (2013) Exceptional diving exposure with deep stops and DCS (case study). Conference Poster, European Underwater and Baromedical Society/ South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society/ Southern African Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine Association, Tricontinental Scientific Meeting on Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, La Reunion, September 23-28, 2013.

Examples

  data(deepmine)
  plot(deepmine, legendpos="right")