Limits and disclaimers

What Dive Kit is

Dive Kit is a planning and reference tool for educational and informational use. It helps you think through a dive on the surface: gas mixes, best mix, gas usage, buoyancy, breathing rate, and full decompression schedules. It also stores your certifications.

That is the whole job. Everything below is about what it is not, and what stays your responsibility.

What Dive Kit is not

Dive Kit is not a dive computer. It does not track your depth, time, or tissue loading in the water, and it gives you no real-time guidance during a dive. It is not a substitute for proper training, certification, a real dive computer, or conservative judgement. It does not provide medical advice, emergency procedures, equipment maintenance guidance, or real-time conditions.

The models are approximations

Every calculation in Dive Kit, including the Deco Planner, is a model. The Deco Planner runs the Bühlmann ZH-L16C algorithm with gradient factors (GF) and is cross-checked against MultiDeco. A model is not your body. Cold, workload, current, dehydration, fatigue, a poor night’s sleep, an off blend, and individual susceptibility can all make you take on inert gas faster or off-gas it slower than the model assumes. Plan conservatively.

The numbers reflect exactly the gases, depths, rates, and settings you entered. A single wrong gas O₂ percentage, depth, or unit can produce a schedule that looks fine and is not. A plan with no warnings is not a guarantee of safety.

What stays your responsibility

Using Dive Kit does not transfer any responsibility away from you. Before and during every dive, you are responsible for:

• Diving within your certification and training. Do not attempt dives beyond your experience level or certification limits.
• Verifying your gas. Analyse every cylinder and confirm its O₂ and helium content yourself. Confirm each gas’s maximum operating depth (MOD) and switch depth.
• Verifying depths, times, settings, and reserves. Check that the plan’s gradient factors, ascent and descent rates, PPO₂ limits, and gas reserves are what you intend to dive.
• Carrying redundancy. Bring redundant gas and a backup timing device. Have a clear emergency action plan that you and your buddy both know.
• Following the most conservative source. When your computer, your team’s plan, and your own judgement disagree, follow the most conservative of them.
• Diving with a trained buddy and adequate emergency procedures in place.

Consult a qualified diving physician before diving, especially with any medical condition. Diving conditions change rapidly; assess weather, visibility, and current yourself before every dive.

Your agreement

Dive Kit shows a safety disclaimer when you first set it up, and you acknowledge it before using the app. You can re-read the full disclaimer any time: open Settings, go to Privacy & Legal, and tap Review Safety Disclaimer. By using Dive Kit you accept that the developers, publishers, and distributors disclaim all liability for any injury, damage, or loss that may result from using the app or relying on its information. You use it at your own risk.

Related

• FAQ answers common questions about what Dive Kit does.
• Deco Planner explains the planner and its own safety notes.