scuba.disclaimer: Disclaimer for Scuba Library
In scuba: Diving Calculations and Decompression Models

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Disclaimer for Scuba Library

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This page contains important warnings.

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The scuba software library is intended for use in research and education about the mathematical and statistical basis of decompression theory. It is not designed for actual use in scuba diving and related activities. It is emphatically not suitable for use in actual diving.

Scuba diving is a dangerous activity with inherent risks of death and serious injury. No-one should attempt scuba diving without professional training, certification, supervision and regular medical assessment.

It is also dangerous for trained scuba divers to exceed the limitations of their training. Diving at altitudes above sea level, and breathing mixed gases other than air, carry increased risk and additional types of risk. Divers should seek additional, professional training and certification for such activities.

This software is not suitable for use in actual scuba diving. The software will yield numerical results for any diving activity, without giving any warning if the activity would be dangerous or fatal. Each function in the scuba library calculates the predictions of one theoretical model (a law of physics, a decompression model or another empirical relationship). In doing so, it does not take account of safety restrictions, other physical laws, or other important information.

The software is provided for academic interest only. It should not be used to generate diving tables or protocols related to diving. No output from this software should be misconstrued as a diving table. Only persons qualified to supervise diving activities or qualified in hyperbaric medicine should attempt to design diving tables. Although existing published diving tables are based on theoretical models, such tables have been extensively field-tested and modified before approval. Existing tables are more conservative than the models from which they were originally derived.

The author does not warrant that the software is correct in any sense whatsoever. Even if correctly computed, the predictions of a theoretical physical model may not be correct predictions.