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@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@ +Do not translate this file. +This just tries to collect some of the terms you will run into +when translating Subsurface + +SAC Surface equivalent air consumption + The air consumed during a dive at different + depth is adjusted for depth/pressure to give + an easy to understand air consumption number + +OTU Oxygen Toxicity Unit - a measurement how O₂ + negatively impacts the lung tissue. This number + has no unit, the values are rather abstract + +CNS Central Nervous System Oxygen Toxicity - a + measurement how O₂ negatively impacts the + central nervous system - this is a percentage + or a number <= 1 + +maxCNS the highest CNS value during a dive + +PO2, PN2, PHe These are all partial pressures of the three +PO₂, PN₂ gases Oxygen (O2 or O₂), Nitrogen (N2 or N₂) + and Helium (He). + +O₂%, He% The fraction of Oxygen and Helium in a gas. + The partial pressure is therefore the pressure + of the gas times the fraction of the specific + component. E.g. a gas with O₂% = 30 (also called + 30% Nitrox or EAN30) at 30m depth (where the + pressure is 4atm) therefore has a PO₂ of + 4 * 0.30 = 1.2 + +CSV Comma separated values - a common file format + +TSV Tab separated values - a common file format + +Stopdepth The depth at which the diver needs to wait for + some time in order to "off-gas". Also deco stop. + +WorkPress Working Pressure of a tank - the pressure it should + be filled to + +StartPress Starting Pressure - at the beginning of a dive + +EndPress Ending Pressure - at the end of a dive + +Switch at the depth at which the diver wants to switch to + a certain gas + +Device ID Unique ID for a specific dive computer + +trip dives are grouped into "trips" based on their + individual start time. As soon as there are more than + 48h between dives the automated algorithm will start + a new trip + +UDDF standardized file format + +GFHigh, GFLow Gradient Factors of the Buehlman algorithm. These + impact the way the deco obligations are calculated + in Subsurface. Typically these are between 20 and 100. + Lower is more conservative (i.e., more deco). It's + possible to use values below 20 and above 100 in + certain circumstances, but 70/30 is much more common. + +CC Closed circuit - short for "repreather diving" + +OC Open circuit - traditional scuba + +CC Set Point Rebreathers often are run with a fixed PO₂ - the "set point" + +Bailing out to OC + in a rebreather dive the dive switches to their emergency + OC equipment + +Auto Group automatically arrange dives into trips + +Ceiling when the diver is "in deco", i.e., when the diver cannot + directly ascend to the surface but has to put in "stops" + to give their body time to "off gas" (reduce the amount of N₂ + and potentially He in the body), there is a minimum depth + they should not climb above - that's the ceiling. Often a + diver will do a deco stop well below the ceiling + +Viz short for visibility + +belt, ankle weight system types - a backplate is used mostly by tech +backplate, divers to mount the tanks on (recreational divers have a BC, +integrated, tech divers usually a backplate and a wing) +clip-on + +rbt remaining bottom time + +rgt remainint gas time + +workload is this a strenous dive? + +deepstop stop well below the ceiling + +safety stop stop at the end of a recreational dive, typically + 3 minutes at 5 meters + +below floor event showing dive is below the depth where the dive + is acruing additional deco time + +OLF Oxygen Limit Fraction; Suunto specific term for CNS + +rgbm reduced gradient bubble method - alternative deco + algorithm + +non stop time amount of time the diver can stay at the current depth +NDL without going into deco + +EAD equivalent air depth + +END effective equivalent Nitrogen depth + +EADD equivalent air density depth + +TTS time to surface (including deco stop and reasonable + ascent speed) |