About gtkdive
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gtkdive is dive simulation based on the implementation of the the
Buehlmann ZH-L16 algorithm. The program simulates the saturation of 16
compartments as a result of compression and decompression processes. 

Furthermore gtkdive offers some basic calculations such as best mix,
nitrox blending, EAD and MOD.

DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE TO PLAN ANY DIVE!

Usage
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Simulating a dive:

   Simply chose your depth and click "dive" for every minute you want
   to dive.

   If the maximum tolerated ambient pressure is greater than air
   pressure (i.e. you are not allowed to dive directly to the surface
   without a highly increased risk of decompression illness) you will
   be see a message in the statusbar.

Loading a dive:

   Load a file in udcf format and select a dive contained in that file.
   Clicking "dive" will re-simulate the loaded dive data until a new
   depth is entered.

The upper progress bar of each tissue shows the gas saturation, the
lower progress bar shows the gas pressure in the tissue (100% means
bubbles).


The calculation of best gas, nitrox blending, EAD and MOD should be
pretty selfexplanatory.


Planned features
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Of course this will be a full featured space shuttle control system
one day ;-) But this program is in an early stage of development. So
before this happens there will be the integration of some kind of file
support (done for UDCF loading, saving UDCF is not implemented yet)
and helium support. UDCF support is pretty basic up to now - not all
parameters (gas mix etc.) are extracted.


Again:

DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE TO PLAN ANY DIVE!

Copyright (C) 2004 Matthias Wientapper

gtkdive is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
USA

Comments are welcome.

        - Matthias Wientapper <m.wientapper@gmx.de>