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Safety considerations
• Always dive with back-up instruments. Make sure that you always use back-up instrumentation
including a depth gauge, submersible pressure gauge, digital bottom timer or dive watch, and
have access to decompression tables whenever diving with a dive computer.
• Avoid repeated ascents and descents (yo yo diving).
• Avoid repeated heavy workload while at depth.
• Plan the dives to be shorter if they are made in cold water.
• After finishing the decompression or at the end of a no-stop dive, the final stage of the ascent
should be as slow as possible.
• You MUST be familiar with all signs and symptoms of decompression sickness before using
Subgear XP-3H! Seek IMMEDIATE treatment for decompression sickness should any of these signs
or symptoms occur after a dive! There is a direct correlation between the effectiveness of treatment
and the delay between the onset of symptoms and the treatment for decompression sickness.
• Only dive with Nitrox after you have been thoroughly instructed by a recognised institution.
Repetitive dives
• Do not start your next dive before your CNS O
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% status has dropped below 40%.
• When diving with Nitrox, make sure your surface interval is long enough (just like diving with
compressed air). Plan for a minimum surface interval of two hours. Oxygen, too, needs sufficient
time to leave the body.
• Match gas mixture to the intended dive.
• Do not attempt a repetitive dive if the no-dive warning
is visible on the display.
• Plan a day without diving once a week.
• If you have to change computers, wait at least 48 hours before carrying out your next dive.
• Diving after a reset of the remaining saturation (reset, see page 71, or battery replacement,
see page 76) may lead you into potentially hazardous situations which could result in death
or serious injury. After a reset of the remaining saturation do not dive for at least 48 hours.
Altitude and diving
• Do not dive at altitudes higher than 4000m (13000ft).
• After a dive do not rise to altitudes that Subgear XP-3H prohibits via the flashing altitude range
number (see page 30).
Flying after diving
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After diving, wait at least 24 hours prior to flying.
Subgear XP-3H dive instrument is a personal protective equipment in compliance with the essential
safety requirements of the European Union directive 89/686/EEC. RINA SpA, Via Corsica 12,
I-16128 Genoa, notified body no. 0474, have certified the conformity with the European Standard EN
13319:2000.
EN 250:2000 Respiratory equipment - Open circuit self contained compressed air diving apparatus -
Requirements, testing, marking (pressure gauge test).
EN13319:2000 Diving accessories - Depth gauges and combined depth and time measuring devices -
Functional and safety requirements, test methods. Any information on decompression obligation
displayed by equipment covered by this standard is explicitly excluded from its scope.
