scuba (version 1.8-0)

pedro: Real Scuba Dive Profiles

Description

Dive profiles for 11 different scuba dives.

Format

Each of the datasets pedro902, pedro903, etc, is an object of class "dive".

Source

Pedro Antonio Neves

Details

The command data(pedro) gives access to 11 datasets named pedro902, pedro903, pedro904, pedro922, pedro943, pedro944, pedro945, pedro946, pedro948, pedro949 and pedro950. These are the dive profiles for 11 real scuba dives, uploaded from a dive computer.

Each of the datasets is an object of class "dive" containing the dive profile for one dive. 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.

The dives were conducted by Pedro Antonio Neves. Details are as follows:

Dive	Max depth	Gases	Type
Location	902	19 m	EAN 32
single	Armacao de Pera, Portugal	903	27 m
EAN 32	single	Farilhoes, Portugal	904
30 m	EAN 32	single	Berlenga, Portugal
922	15 m	EAN 32	multiple
Sines, Portugal	943	21 m	EAN 32
single	Armacao de Pera, Portugal	944	19 m
EAN 32	single	Armacao de Pera, Portugal	945
22 m	EAN 32	single	Armacao de Pera, Portugal
946	20 m	EAN 32	single
Armacao de Pera, Portugal	949	16 m	EAN 32
single	Finisterra,Galicia,Spain	Dive	Max depth

All dives were conducted on Nitrox 32, except pedro950 which was conducted using Trimix 18/45 and Nitrox 50. All dive profiles consist of a single descent and ascent, except for pedro922 which consists of 5 short bounce dives separated by short surface intervals.

Examples

   data(pedro)
   summary(pedro950)
   plot(pedro950)