• Explorers – Recreational/technical scuba training and certification agency EUF CB 2013001 HSA - Handicapped Scuba Association HFUA - Elliniki Ohospondia Ypoyrichias...
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    Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and...
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    important component of decompression. A.S.S.E.T. Association of SCUBA Service Engineers and Technicians. Association of Diving Contractors International A non-profit...
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  • The National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI Worldwide) is a nonprofit association of scuba instructors founded in 1960 by Albert Tillman and...
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    their dives and lead other recreational scuba divers in open water, to conduct any specialised recreational scuba diving activities for which they have...
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    The history of scuba diving is closely linked with the history of the equipment. By the turn of the twentieth century, two basic architectures for underwater...
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  • developed continuing education scuba courses during this time and wrote the initial issue of the first trade magazine for scuba instructors, The Undersea Journal...
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    gases. The gas may be supplied from a scuba cylinder carried by the diver, in which case it is called a scuba regulator, or via a hose from a compressor...
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    is diving for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment, usually when using scuba equipment. The term "recreational diving" may also be used in contradistinction...
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    helmet or full-face mask Fatal scuba diving incidents – Deaths occurring while scuba diving or as a consequence of scuba diving Section contents: Top of...
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    first open-circuit, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (or "scuba") to achieve worldwide popularity and commercial success. This class of...
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    passed through the canister. scuba SCUBA Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. May be open or closed circuit. scuba orienteering Competitive underwater...
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    in Long Beach, California, where he is learning to SCUBA dive with the Handicapped Scuba Association (HSA). Johnson recently appeared in an NBC Los Angeles...
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    diver may dive on breath-hold (freediving) or use breathing apparatus for scuba diving or surface-supplied diving, and the saturation diving technique reduces...
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  • lines to indicate the route to the exit. There are some applications where scuba diving is appropriate and surface-supplied diving is not, and other where...
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    principles described by John Scott Haldane. half+200 half+15 An alternative scuba reserve gas management strategy to the rule of thirds for breathing stage...
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    required to prove their qualifications when booking a dive trip, hiring scuba equipment, having diving cylinders filled, or in the case of professional...
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  • standards of safety. As of 2020, PADI claims to have issued 28 million scuba certifications of all levels, many of which may be minor specializations...
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    A scuba set, originally just scuba, is any breathing apparatus that is entirely carried by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas...
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  • Scuba diving fatalities are deaths occurring while scuba diving or as a consequence of scuba diving. The risks of dying during recreational, scientific...
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  • The International Association for Handicapped Divers (or "IAHD") is a non-profit organization with its headquarters in Middenmeer, the Netherlands. The...
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    vessel, sometimes indirectly via a diving bell. This is different from scuba diving, where the diver's breathing equipment is completely self-contained...
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    A backplate and wing (often abbreviated as BP&W or BP/W) is a type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device (BCD) which can be used...
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  • 19, 2003). "Scuba diving computer recall". Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems 22.57. 22 (57). The Association for Computing...
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  • The International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD) is a scuba diving organization concerned with certification and training in recreational...
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    A dive boat is a boat that recreational divers or professional scuba divers use to reach a dive site which they could not conveniently reach by swimming...
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  • Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI), the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), Scuba Diving International (SDI), and Scuba Schools...
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    Rebreather Association of International Divers (RAID) Sub-Aqua Association (SAA) Scuba Diving International (SDI) Scuba Educators International (SEI) Scuba Schools...
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    underwater with monofin either by holding one's breath or using open circuit scuba diving equipment. Events exist over distances similar to swimming competitions...
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    Diving cylinder (redirect from Scuba tank)
    may be breathing gas used with a scuba set, in which case the cylinder may also be referred to as a scuba cylinder, scuba tank or diving tank. When used...
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