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    Aqua-Lung was the first open-circuit, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (or "scuba") to achieve worldwide popularity and commercial success...
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  • "Aqua-Lung" regulator was created by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan in 1943. In 1946, the company known as La Spirotechnique (now Aqua Lung International)...
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    Aqualung Group (formerly Aqua Lung International, and prior to that La Spirotechnique) is a manufacturer of self-contained breathing apparatus and other...
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    open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries...
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    Full-face diving mask Diving equipment manufacturers AP Diving Apeks Aqua Lung America Aqua Lung/La Spirotechnique Beuchat René Cavalero Cis-Lunar Cressi-Sub...
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    designed the first successful and safe open-circuit scuba, known as the Aqua-Lung. Their system combined an improved demand regulator with high-pressure...
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  • diatoms Amphora, a model of semi-closed-circuit mixture rebreather made by Aqua Lung America AMPHORA, a bioinformatics software for metegenomics analysis Amphora...
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    English language Lambertsen's acronym has become common usage and the name Aqua-Lung (often spelled "aqualung"), coined by Cousteau for use in English-speaking...
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    Full-face diving mask Diving equipment manufacturers AP Diving Apeks Aqua Lung America Aqua Lung/La Spirotechnique Beuchat René Cavalero Cis-Lunar Cressi-Sub...
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    non-visible underwater. Aqua Lung Military Snorkel Flex Tube – Standard-issue snorkel. Aqua Lung Rocket Fin – Standard-issue swimfins. Aqua Lung Look Mask and Mythos...
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    Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who invented the modern aqua-lung, and Yves Rocard, who helped perfect radar. The aqua-lung became a major improvement for commando operations...
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    decompression events. Barotrauma generally manifests as sinus or middle ear effects, lung overpressure injuries and injuries resulting from external squeezes. Decompression...
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    at the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Air Liquide owned the patent for Aqua-Lung until it expired. Air Liquide's headquarters are in Paris. It also has...
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    1943, co-inventor with French Navy diver Jacques-Yves Cousteau of the Aqua-Lung, the diving regulator (a.k.a. demand-valve) used for the first Scuba equipment...
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  • expertise of Émile Gagnan at Air Liquide to build Jacques Cousteau's aqua-lung. Simone was indirectly to hold the key to this significant step in diving...
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    The Momsen lung was a primitive underwater rebreather used before and during World War II by American submariners as emergency escape gear. It was invented...
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  • several times with its tail. Irwin initially believed he had only a punctured lung; however, the stingray's barb pierced his heart, causing him to bleed to...
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  • state of Washington SeaQuest, a brand of diving equipment affiliated with Aqua Lung International Sea Quest (novel series), a series of fantasy novels for...
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    Recompression as an emergency field treatment of decompression illness". AquaCorp. 11. Archived from the original on 20 August 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2010...
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  • boots, gloves, and wet suits. Aquala, also known as Bel-Aqua – US Maudacturer of dry suits. Aqua Lung America – American company manufacturing recreational...
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    (also called chest compression) is mechanically limiting expansion of the lungs by compressing the torso, preventing breathing. "Traumatic asphyxia" or...
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    Cousteau first dived with an aqua-lung in 1945 when he was 4 years old. His father brought home a miniature version of the aqua-lung he had co-invented a few...
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    successful and safe open-circuit scuba, a twin hose system known as the Aqua-Lung. Their system combined an improved demand regulator with high-pressure...
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    deeply and hold their breath to allow the CO in the blood to escape into the lung before the measurement can be made. As this is not possible in people who...
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