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    The mechanism of diving regulators is the arrangement of components and function of gas pressure regulators used in the systems which supply breathing...
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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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    Underwater diving can be described as a human activity – intentional, purposive, conscious and subjectively meaningful sequence of actions. Underwater diving is...
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    Sea, four divers were in a diving chamber system on the rig's deck that was connected by a trunk (a short passage) to a diving bell. The divers were Edwin...
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    dioxide levels Mechanism of diving regulators – Arrangement and function of the components of regulators for underwater diving Work of breathing – Energy...
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    ama (海士) – a sea-diving fisherman ama (海人), kaijin (海人) – a sea-diving fisherperson of either gender uminchu (海人) – a sea fisherperson of either gender in...
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    Underwater diving can be described as a human activity – intentional, purposive, conscious and subjectively meaningful sequence of actions. Underwater diving is...
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    to a depth of 10,928 m (35,853 ft), a world record by 16 m (52 ft). Diving for a second time on 1 May, he became the first person to dive the Challenger...
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    Ice diving is a type of penetration diving where the dive takes place under ice. Because diving under ice places the diver in an overhead environment...
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    to the diver through the demand valve of a diving regulator or the breathing loop of a diving re-breather. Diving cylinders are usually manufactured from...
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    Underwater diving can be described as a human activity – intentional, purposive, conscious and subjectively meaningful sequence of actions. Underwater diving is...
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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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    Commercial diving may be considered an application of professional diving where the diver engages in underwater work for industrial, construction, engineering...
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    Underwater diving can be described as a human activity – intentional, purposive, conscious and subjectively meaningful sequence of actions. Underwater diving is...
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    Sunita Williams (category American aviators of Asian descent)
    assignment at the Naval Coastal System Command, she was designated a Basic Diving Officer. She next reported to the Naval Air Training Command, where she...
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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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    also used in professional diving when it provides advantages, usually of mobility and range, over surface-supplied diving systems and is allowed by the...
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    Steve Irwin (category Australian people of English descent)
    educator, and environmentalist. Irwin grew up around crocodiles and other types of reptiles and was educated regarding them by his father, Bob. He achieved international...
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    A diving weighting system is ballast weight added to a diver or diving equipment to counteract excess buoyancy. They may be used by divers or on equipment...
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    The diving reflex, also known as the diving response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the...
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    Underwater diving can be described as a human activity – intentional, purposive, conscious and subjectively meaningful sequence of actions. Underwater diving is...
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    RMS Lusitania (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from March 2020)
    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 (7.7×56mmR) calibre rifle...
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    times commercial applications such as sponge diving and marine salvage were established. Military diving also has a long history, going back at least...
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    Surface-supplied diving equipment (SSDE) is the equipment required for surface-supplied diving. The essential aspect of surface-supplied diving is that breathing...
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    Hypercapnia (category Underwater diving medicine)
    a hazard of underwater diving associated with breath-hold diving, scuba diving, particularly on rebreathers, and deep diving where it is associated with...
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  • safety of breathable atmosphere at the surface. Cave diving, wreck diving, ice diving and diving inside or under other natural or artificial underwater...
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  • rescue Scuba diving fatalities – Deaths occurring while scuba diving or as a consequence of scuba diving Stand-by diver – A member of a dive team who is...
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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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    Deepsea Challenger (category Submarines of Australia)
    Deepsea Challenger (DCV 1) is a 7.3-metre (24 ft) deep-diving submersible designed to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest-known point on Earth...
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    on-screen presenter due to difficulties in speaking to a camera through diving apparatus, but asked Attenborough to narrate the films. The same team reunited...
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