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Dive tables and dive computers provide guidelines for safe diving. Diving depth and profile, as well as surface interval times, are incorporated in their algorithms. Common dive tables usually apply only for recreational diving, not for decompression diving. For diving in altitude special diving tables are required. The purpose of diving tables is to avoid decompression accidents and ensure safe diving. Nitrox diving tables incorporate the risk of oxygen toxicity, and diving time as well as depth is adjusted accordingly (◘ Fig. 4.1).
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Rusoke-Dierich, O. (2018). Dive Tables and Dive Computers. In: Diving Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73836-9_4
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