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    diving chambers, differentiated by the way in which the pressure in the diving chamber is produced and controlled. The historically older open diving...
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    A diving bell is a rigid chamber used to transport divers from the surface to depth and back in open water, usually for the purpose of performing underwater...
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  • to the actual diving, being there to make the dive easier or safer, such as a surface decompression chamber. Some equipment, like a diving stage, is not...
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    resting in chamber 2 at a pressure of 9 atmospheres (atm). The diving bell with Bergersen and Hellevik had just been winched up after a dive and joined...
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    A diving support vessel is a ship that is used as a floating base for professional diving projects. Basic requirements are the ability to keep station...
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    Saturation diving is diving for periods long enough to bring all tissues into equilibrium with the partial pressures of the inert components of the breathing...
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    the London Diving Chamber Annual Dive Lectures has attracted well-known figures from the diving world and celebrities interested in diving to speak to...
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    A diving team is a group of people who work together to conduct a diving operation. A characteristic of professional diving is the specification for minimum...
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    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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  • Thumbnail for Glossary of underwater diving terminology: A–C
    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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    determine fitness to dive. Hyperbaric medicine is a corollary field associated with diving, since recompression in a hyperbaric chamber is used as a treatment...
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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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    Surface-supplied diving is a mode of underwater diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas through a diver's umbilical from the surface, either...
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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...
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    chamber, transfer chamber and submersible decompression chamber, which is commonly referred to in commercial diving and military diving as the diving...
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    Deep diving is underwater diving to a depth beyond the norm accepted by the associated community. In some cases this is a prescribed limit established...
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    Navy Diving Manual indicates that ascent rates greater than about 20 m/min (66 ft/min) when diving increase the chance of DCS, while recreational dive tables...
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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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    twenty-four hours. It lowered the Rescue Chamber — a revised version of a diving bell invented by Momsen — and, in four dives over the next 13 hours, recovered...
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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. 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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    Shark cage diving is underwater diving or snorkeling where the observer remains inside a protective cage designed to prevent sharks from making contact...
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    a living chamber, transfer chamber and submersible decompression chamber, which is commonly referred to in commercial diving as the diving bell and in...
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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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    Cave-diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves. It may be done as an extreme sport, a way of exploring flooded caves for scientific investigation...
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    The diving environment is the natural or artificial surroundings in which a dive is done. It is usually underwater, but professional diving is sometimes...
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  • In cave diving, a Torricellian chamber is a cave chamber with an airspace above the water at less than atmospheric pressure. This is formed when the water...
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    from the Discovery Channel was also to be on hand. A dive team from Cork Sub Aqua Club, diving under licence, discovered 15,000 rounds of the .303 (7...
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  • Waage Drill II diving accident occurred in the North Sea off Scotland on 9 September 1975, when two divers died of heatstroke after the chamber they were in...
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    decompression – Decompression in a diving chamber out of the water Dive log – Record of diving history of an underwater diver Dive planning – The process of planning...
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