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Safety considerations

You must carefully read this entire manual before using your Aladin® Sport.

Diving has many inherent risks. Decompression sickness is among the most
serious of those risks. Even if you follow the instructions of this manual in a

WARNING

The Aladin® Sport is a sophisticated decompression tool to assist a trained and certified diver in
making decisions concerning dive planning and execution. As with any tool, the Aladin® Sport may be
misused if the following safety and operational precautions are not strictly followed. If they are
followed, careful use of the Aladin® Sport can increase your diving enjoyment and reduce your risk of
decompression sickness. If they are not, you will be placing yourself at serious risk for decompression
sickness.
While the Aladin® Sport is a technically advanced tool based on a biophysical model of decompression
sickness, neither it nor any other diving computer (or table) can actually monitor the physiological
changes that occur in your body as you dive. In addition, each diver will vary in his or her susceptibility
to decompression sickness. Not only that, but each individual diver‘s own susceptibility may vary from
day to day. Combined with the fact that decompression modelling is an inexact science, and of
necessity must be based at least partly on certain unproven assumptions, it is incumbent upon you,
the individual diver, to dive responsibly and to carefully follow all standard safe diving practices as well
as the admonitions contained in this manual.

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careful fashion, it is still possible that you may be seriously injured or die
from decompression sickness or some other inherent risk of scuba diving.
Unless you are fully aware of these risks and are willing to personally accept
and assume responsibility for those risks, do not use the Aladin® Sport!

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Important remarks concerning signal words and symbols

This operating manual makes use of the following icons to indicate especially important comments:

Remarks: Informations and tips which are important for optimal use of the functions of

your Aladin® Sport.

WARNING

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Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in
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The following symbols are used in the operating manual:

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Operating instruction for manual input (Example: bridging contacts B and E)

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Safety considerations

Guidelines for the use of Aladin® Sport:

The following guidelines for using Aladin® Sport are derived from the latest medical research and the
recommendations of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences for diving with diving computers. Following
these guidelines will greatly increase your safety while diving, but cannot guarantee that decompression sickness
will not occur.
– In accordance with the recommended maximum diving limit of all instructional agencies, do not dive

deeper than 130 feet.

– The decompression algorithm contained in the Aladin® Sport only serves for emergency or unintended

decompression.

– On all dives with the Aladin® Sport, make a safety stop for three to five minutes within the ten to thirty feet

zone.

– Never use the Aladin® Sport for repetitive, “square“ dives deeper than 60 feet. A square dive is a dive that

is performed for its duration at a uniform depth.

– Always make the deepest dive of the day first when repetitive dives are planned, and for each successive

dive make sure that the deepest portion of that dive is done at the beginning of the dive.

– The Aladin® Sport is designed for dives made with compressed air only. Do not use the Aladin® Sport for

dives made with nitrox or other mixed gases.

– All divers using dive computers to plan dives and indicate or determine decompression status must use

their own computer.

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Safety considerations

– If the Aladin® Sport fails at any time during the dive, the dive must be terminated, and appropriate surfacing

procedures (including a slow ascent and a 3 to 5 minute safety stop) should be initiated immediately.

– On any given dive, all divers in a buddy group must follow the most conservative dive computer for that

particular dive.

– You should not dive for a period of twenty-four hours before activating the Aladin® Sport to use it to plan

or control your diving.

– You MUST follow the ascent rates as indicated by the Aladin® Sport, and should the computer fail for any

reason, you must ascend at a rate of no greater than 60 feet per minute.

– You MUST be familiar with all signs and symptoms of decompression sickness before using the Aladin

Sport! Seek IMMEDIATE treatment for decompression sickness should any of these signs or symptoms
occur after a dive! There is a direct correlation between the efficacy of treatment and the delay between
the onset of symptoms and the treatment for decompression sickness.

– Always observe the optical alarm signals of the Aladin® Sport. Avoid situations of increased risk for

decompression sickness which are marked with a warning sign in this operating manual.

– Never dive the Aladin® Sport to the limit. Neither the Aladin® Sport, nor any other diving computer or

decompression table should be pushed to its limit. Give yourself a margin of safety by always leaving at
least a few minutes in the “no-stop“ box before making your ascent.

– Avoid repeated ascents and descents (yo-yo diving) while using the Aladin® Sport.

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LIST OF CHAPTERS

I INTRODUCTION 1

II ALADIN® SPORT – SURVEY 9

III DIVING WITH ALADIN® SPORT 23

IV DIVING AT REDUCED RISK WITH ALADIN® SPORT 39

V LOGBOOK 49

VI DIVE PLANNER 55

VII INTERFACE 63

VIII TROUBLE SHOOTING 65

IX APPENDIX,

Maintenance, Technical Information, Warranty

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I INTRODUCTION

1. Aladin® Sport - Safe No-Stop Diving ______________________________________ 2

2. Aladin® Sport – Your Personal Companion ______________________________________ 3

3. The Calculation Model ZH-L8 ADT 3.1 Description _________________________ 5

3.2 Advantages ________________________ 7

4. Safety in Diving ______________________________________ 8

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1. Aladin® Sport - Safe No-Stop Diving

The proven no-stop dive computer Aladin is furnished
with a new, revolutionary calculation model which
makes it even safer and more comfortable. The Ala­din of the new generation is called Aladin® Sport and
completes the Aladin family consisting of the Aladin
Air X Nitrox integrating air data and the
decompression computer
Aladin® Pro.
The Aladin® Sport is designed for
no-stop diving, but also provides
the necessary information for safe diving in case
of a decompression dive.

Aladin® Sport displays all
information necessary
for safe diving in such
a manner that it is
easy to survey and to
be understood at once.

The convincingly simple handling and the high
comfort of carrying speak for themselves from
the first dive.

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Read this operating manual carefully and to
the last page.

The Aladin® Sport of the new
generation brings you in possession
of a device that guarantees more

safety, quality and
comfort in diving.

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2. Aladin® Sport - Your Personal Companion

Aladin® Sport considers your individual reactions
during the dive, the cooling of your skin and includes
your workload by a constant value in the calculations.
The latest results of medical and technical research
were taken into consideration. As a special feature
the calculation model also considers the formation of
micro-bubbles in the venous circulation depending on
workload and skin temperature. This has led to the
development of a unique, adaptive calculation model.
Aladin® Sport was exclusively designed for diving with
compressed air and especially for diving in the no­stop range. It distinguishes itself from its previous
models and other commercial diving computers in a
number of significant ways.

• The ZH-L8 ADT decompression calculation model

considers eight body tissues as well as the diver‘s
conduct and the ambient conditions. This allows
for an even more precise calculation of a modeled
risk for decompression sickness which can lead to
greater diving safety.

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• Compared to all previous models the Aladin® Sport
is much more of a personal instrument, which
considers the individual conduct of the diver.
Different conducts of diving buddies can lead to
distinctive differences in the display of the no-stop
and decompression information, since risk
situations (violations of the diving rules) may have
a strong influence by the anticipation of
physiological processes. On the other hand, Ala­din® Sport “rewards” a diving conduct following
the rules with highest diving comfort.

• The diver‘s workload is incorporated in the
decompression calculations as a constant value.
The new calculation model considers for the
calculation of the surface intervals and the
decompression information for repetitive dives that
the physical performance at the surface is smaller
than during the dive.

• The Aladin® Sport uses optical alarms in risk
situations or dangerous conduct.

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WARNING

You must strictly observe all optical alarms due to
risk situations or dangerous conduct and take
appropriate action based upon those alarms to
avoid serious injury or death from decompression
sickness!

• By using the Aladin® Sport‘s logbook, a diver may
directly call up information from the last 19 dives.
When interfaced with a personal computer, 37
dives and 200 minutes of dive profile in intervals
of 20 seconds can be read out.

• The dive planner allows the advance planning of
no stop dives with readily determinable surface
intervals.

• Aladin® Sport is designed to be carried on the
diver‘s wrist or built in consoles. Ease handling,
easy to watch and unambiguous arrangement of
the data in the display, increase of diving safety
without the loss of diving comfort and the
possibility of transferring data to a personal
computer are the main features of the Aladin
Sport comfort.

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3. The Calculation Model ZH-L8 ADT

3.1 Description

The Aladin® Sport uses a new decompression
calculation model known as the ZH-L8 ADT. This model
uses eight compartments or “tissue“ groups with no­minal half time periods from 5 to 640 minutes. This
model differs considerably from other models by its
consideration of the following additional physiological
processes:

1. Blood perfusion to the body‘s organs
is not constant. Skin and muscle tissues
are especially subject to changes in
blood perfusion, depending on tempera­ture and work load. Changes in blood
perfusion to these organs change their
nitrogen saturation tolerance. The model used by
the Aladin® Sport takes these effects into account
and thus the “skin“ and “muscle“ compartments
in the Aladin® Sport show variable half-time periods
and saturation tolerances.
Decompression information is calculated according
to the workload and decrease in skin temperature.

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The decrease in skin temperature is based upon
the water temperature and the dive time. By
considering these changes in saturation, the time
that must be spent at the surface prior to flying
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2. The decompression model used by the Aladin
Sport considers nitrogen in both its dissolved as
well as its gaseous phase (microbubbles). Formati­on of microbubbles is considered to be a strong
indicator of a high risk of decompression sickness.
The Aladin® Sport model calculates the formation
of microbubbels depending on various assumed
influences in arterial and venous blood. In normal,
slow ascents, microbubbles form mainly in venous
blood. During fast ascents, microbubbles may also
form in arterial blood and in the body‘s tissues as
well. If a particular dive profile may result in the
creation of microbubbles according to the Aladin
Sport‘s model, decreased bottom time and/or
increased decompression times as well as increased
“no fly“ time will be indicated.

• Microbubbles can form if the diver makes too fast
an ascent, ignores required decompression stops,
or makes repeated ascents during a dive (yo-yo
diving). These microbubbles can form in arterial

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blood as well as in the body‘s tissues. If these
microbubbles partially impair circulation, the rate
of gas diffusion and saturation tolerance for those
tissues immediately surrounding this area of
impaired circulation are changed. If required, no­stop time, decompression time and -depth will be
adjusted in such a way that already existing
microbubbles will stop growing. Increased
decompression time will also assist those local areas
of impaired circulation to desaturate with less risk
of decompression sickness.

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• The calculation of microbubbles results in altered
ascent instructions. If microbubbles are assumed
to be present based on the data used by the Ala­din® Sport, the ascent rate to the surface is reduced
to 23 feet/minute. This will help prevent the
formation of microbubbles in the arterial circulation
and minimizes formation of microbubbles in the
venous circulation after the dive.

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3.2 Advantages

On the first dives following responsible diving
procedures, a diver using the Aladin® Sport should
never experience a shortened no-stop phase or be
required to decompress, although a three to five
minute safety stop between ten and thirty feet is
recommended for every dive. If, however, unplanned
circumstances arise during the dive which increase the
risk of decompression, the Aladin® Sport can, if closely
followed, reduce the risk of decompression sickness
by increasing decompression time. Some of the more
common risk situations are as follows:

• Repetitive dives, especially those deeper than 60
feet and those with short surface intervals.

• Repetitive dives using square dive profiles.

• Repetitive diving over the course of several
successive days.

• Diving in cold water.

• Yo-yo diving (repeated descents and ascents to the
surface during a given dive).

• Flying within 24 hours after diving.

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If a diver experiences any of these risk factors while diving,
the Aladin® Sport will require decompression in order to
help minimize the risk of decompression sickness.

WARNING

Do not use the Aladin® Sport for planned decom­pression dives!

If signs or symptoms of decompression sickness occur after
diving with Aladin® Sport, seek IMMEDIATE treatment at
the nearest recompression facility.
With its new calculation model the Aladin® Sport is an
extremely versatile tool which can increase your diving
comfort and safety. As with any diving tool, however,
ultimate responsibility for diving safety remains with the
individual diver. The same responsible diving practices
taught by all diving certification agencies are still absolutely
necessary in order to safely dive with the Aladin® Sport.

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4. Safety in Diving

Certain mistakes which may be made by a diver, such
as ascending at an excessive rate, going too deep, or
staying too long at depth, may be overcome if the diver
carefully follows the Aladin® Sport‘s corrected ascent
instructions. Of course, the Aladin® Sport can do not­hing to prevent the occurrence of lung overexpansion
injuries or nitrogen narcosis, whose avoidance lies solely
with the individual diver. The Aladin® Sport is a highly
sophisticated technical instrument which, if used and
maintained properly, will have high reliability. Despite
that, no dive should be made with an Aladin® Sport
without a thorough understanding of decompression
theory and dive table use, and every diver must have a
set of decompression tables with him on every dive.

WARNING

Do not use the Aladin® Sport without a set of
accepted diving tables with you as a back up
decompression tool on every dive.

Should decompression sickness occur, whether the
Aladin® Sport was used correctly or not, a detailed
history of the previous dives may be used to allow a
better diagnosis and the most effective treatment for
the diver.

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II ALADIN® SPORT – SURVEY

1. The Aladin® System _____________________________________ 10

2. Operation _____________________________________ 12

2.1 Operating scheme for surface functions ____ 13

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2 The configuration software DataTalk (supplied together with DataTrak) allows

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logbook memory of Aladin® Sport without a personal computer. This is
especially valuable on diving holidays.

4 The logbook software DataTrak enables you to print out logbook pages. You

can get a special logbook with insert folders from your retailer.

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Switching on display: – automatically, on submerging in water or when adaptation to atmospheric

pressure is necessary.

– manually by manipulating contacts on housing.

Switching off display: – automatically, after three minutes without operation.

Aladin® Sport has 4 operating contacts B, E, +, – on the outside of the housing. For manual operation, touch
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computer and the activation of logbook and dive-plan­mode. It is also used to confirm inputs and is therefore
comparable to the ENTER- or RETURN-key of a
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as the setting of values (time, depth, dive-number etc.).

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As soon as the battery capacity is 0%, a battery
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B and E. Aladin® Sport starts by listing no-stop times.
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Sleep-mode:

Activation: automatically
When Aladin® Sport is not used, it is in the so called sleep-mode.
In that case, the electronics are “sleeping“ in that the display does not show any
information. The computer is briefly activated once every minute to measure
atmospheric pressure. The display remains switched off. If a change in altitude is
recognized, Aladin® Sport switches to -> surface-mode for 3 minutes.

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Activation: By touching contacts B and E from sleep-mode.
To check the display, all signs light up for 5 seconds.

Aladin® Sport switches into ready-mode afterwards. Once in ready-mode, the
display is switched on and altitude sections are eventually displayed.
By touching contacts B and E in the ready-mode once more, Aladin® Sport will
display the remaining battery capacity by percentage. Three minutes after activating
the ready-mode, Aladin® Sport will fall back into the —> sleep-mode.

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