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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!-- Copyright 2014 First Lastname <your@email.com> -->
+<application>
+ <id type="desktop">subsurface</id>
+ <licence>CC-BY-SA</licence>
+ <name>Subsurface</name>
+ <summary></summary>
+ <description>
+  <p>
+   Subsurface is an opensource diving logbook that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac.
+   With this program, users can keep track of their dives by logging dive locations (with GPS coordinates),
+   weights and exposure protection used, dive masters and dive buddies, etc.
+   Subsurface also enables the users to rate their dives and provide additional dive notes.
+   Dives can be downloaded from a variety of dive computers, inserted manually or imported from other programs.
+   A wide array of diving statistics and information is calculated and displayed, like the user’s SAC rate, 
+   partial pressures of O2, N2 and He, calculated deco information, and many more.
+   The dive profiles (and the tank pressure curves) can be visualized in a comprehensive and clean way, that
+   provides the user with additional information on relative velocity (and momentary air consumption) during the dive.
+   Subsurface also allows the user to print out a detailed log book that includes dive profiles and other relevant information.
+   The program is localized in about 20 languages and well supported by an active developer community.
+  </p>
+ </description>
+ <screenshots>
+  <screenshot type="default" width="1860" height="1046">http://subsurface.hohndel.org/screenshots/main.png</screenshot>
+  <screenshot width="778" height="438">http://subsurface.hohndel.org/screenshots/preferences.png</screenshot>
+  <screenshot width="782" height="440">http://subsurface.hohndel.org/screenshots/preferences2.png</screenshot>
+ </screenshots>
+ <url type="homepage">http://www.http://subsurface.hohndel.org/</url>
+ <updatecontact>subsurface@hohndel.org</updatecontact>
+</application>
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