divePAL-Windows: Analyze Dive - Compartments

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You can use the Computer/Compartments selectors in divePAL to show either the screen of your active dive computer or the bar graphs of the Nitrogen Compartments.

Let's select the Compartments and see them in action: if this is your first dive of the day, at the beginning of the dive the level of accumulated nitrogen is basically zero (normal) ....

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But as you keep descending, the levels will keep rising with the fastest compartments leading the race.

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More we stay underwater and more the levels will keep increasing.

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And when we ascend, the level of accumulated Nitrogen in some compartments (mainly the fastest ones) will start receding while in other compartments it will still increase. Basically, some compartments will be already OFF-gassing while others will still be ON-gassing.

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If you want to learn more about Nitrogen Compartments, decompression algorithms and Dive Computers, take the online class Introduction to Dive Computers
 

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