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    Gas blending for scuba diving (or gas mixing) is the filling of diving cylinders with non-air breathing gases such as nitrox, trimix and heliox. Use of...
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  • specification Gas blending for scuba diving – Mixing and filling cylinders with breathing gases for use when scuba diving Gas panel – Breathing gas distribution...
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    Trimix is a breathing gas consisting of oxygen, helium and nitrogen and is used in deep commercial diving, during the deep phase of dives carried out using...
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    available systems for mixed gas rebreathers were fairly bulky and designed for use with diving helmets. The first commercially practical scuba rebreather was...
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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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  • recreational, scientific or commercial diving are small, and on scuba, deaths are usually associated with poor gas management, poor buoyancy control, equipment...
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  • therefore also known as diluent gases. Gas blending for scuba diving is the filling of diving cylinders with non-air breathing gases such as nitrox, trimix and...
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  • apparatus, such as scuba equipment, and surface-supplied diving equipment, but there are other important items of equipment that make diving safer, more convenient...
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    Technical diving (also referred to as tec diving or tech diving) is scuba diving that exceeds the agency-specified limits of recreational diving for non-professional...
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    latch. black-water diving Diving in mid-water at night where the bottom is out of diving range. blending stick Mixing tube in which gases are continuously...
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    A diving cylinder or diving gas cylinder is a gas cylinder used to store and transport high pressure gas used in diving operations. This may be breathing...
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    allowing safer deep diving. The techniques used to fill diving cylinders with gases other than air are called gas blending. Breathing gases for use at ambient...
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    reclaim system for deep heliox diving Gas blending systems Gas blending systems for scuba diving Hot water systems for supply of heating water to divers...
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    underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...
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    A diving regulator or underwater diving regulator is a pressure regulator that controls the pressure of breathing gas for underwater diving. The most...
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    breathing gas. A low pressure diving air compressor usually has a delivery pressure of up to 30 bar, which is regulated to suit the depth of the dive. A high...
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    breathing gas at the ambient pressure. Scuba is an anacronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Although strictly speaking the scuba set is...
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  • Thumbnail for Professional diving
    Professional diving is underwater diving where the divers are paid for their work. Occupational diving has a similar meaning and applications. The procedures...
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    from the shore or from a diving support vessel, sometimes indirectly via a diving bell. This is different from scuba diving, where the diver's breathing...
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    Scuba gas management is the aspect of scuba diving which includes the gas planning, blending, filling, analysing, marking, storage, and transportation...
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    Recreational diving or sport diving is diving for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment, usually when using scuba equipment. The term "recreational diving" may...
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  • Scuba diving therapy is a type of treatment that consists of a variety of scuba diving activities and exercises. Essential elements are increased body...
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    Scuba diving tourism is the industry based on servicing the requirements of recreational divers at destinations other than where they live. It includes...
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  • agencies to offer mixed gas and rebreather training. TDI specializes in more advanced Scuba diving techniques, particularly diving with rebreathers and use...
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  • Europe. SCUBA Diving International, launched in 1998 or 1999, is the sister organization of Technical Diving International. SDI was created by dive professionals...
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  • to the exit. There are some applications where scuba diving is appropriate and surface-supplied diving is not, and other where the converse is true. In...
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    Rebreather diving is underwater diving using diving rebreathers, a class of underwater breathing apparatus which recirculate the breathing gas exhaled by...
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    underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...
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    Underwater diving portal Commercial offshore diving – Professional diving in support of the oil and gas industry Saturation diving – Diving decompression...
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    DACOR Corporation was a former American manufacturer of scuba diving equipment which was founded in 1954 by Sam Davison Jr. in Evanston, Illinois as "The...
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