rescue, and underwater search and recovery dive teams. Military diving includes combat diving, clearance diving and ships husbandry. Deep sea diving is underwater...

underwater diving environment, or just diving environment is the natural or artificial surroundings in which a dive is done. It is usually underwater...

The history of underwater diving starts with freediving as a widespread means of hunting and gathering, both for food and other valuable resources such...

There are several modes of diving distinguished by the equipment and procedures used: Ambient pressure diving – Underwater diving where the diver is exposed...

found to be suitable for diving use. The fundamental item of diving equipment used by divers other than freedivers, is underwater breathing apparatus, such...

timeline of underwater diving technology is a chronological list of notable events in the history of the development of underwater diving equipment. With...

of diving emergencies, the risk is generally of death or injury to the diver, while diving or in the water before or after diving. Underwater diving is...

The diving environment is the natural or artificial surroundings in which a dive is done. It is usually underwater, but professional diving is sometimes...

following index is provided as an overview of and topical guide to underwater diving: Links to articles and redirects to sections of articles which provide...

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can...

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and...

Recreational diving or sport diving is diving for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment, usually when using scuba equipment. The term "recreational diving" may...

The science of underwater diving includes those concepts which are useful for understanding the underwater environment in which diving takes place, and...

Diving activities Diving activities are the things people do while diving underwater. People may dive for various reasons, both personal and professional...

Underwater sports is a group of competitive sports using one or a combination of the following underwater diving techniques - breath-hold, snorkelling...

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...

knowledge to dive safely underwater Divers Alert Network – International group of not-for-profit organizations for improving diving safety Diving equipment –...

the science covering underwater habitats and their technology designed to meet human requirements is shared with diving, diving bells, submersible vehicles...

Professional diving is underwater diving where the divers are paid for their work. Occupational diving has a similar meaning and applications. The procedures...

Diving hazards are the agents or situations that pose a threat to the underwater diver or their equipment. Divers operate in an environment for which the...

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...

Diving support equipment is the equipment used to facilitate a diving operation. It is either not taken into the water during the dive, such as the gas...

Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing...

mode of diving to be used. Recent offshore diving support vessels tend to be dynamically positioned (DP) and double as remotely operated underwater vehicle...

submersibles, and underwater habitats.[citation needed] When used underwater all types of diving chamber are deployed from a diving support vessel suspended...

Underwater diving encompasses a variety of economically and culturally significant forms of diving on the U.S. island territory of Guam. Scuba diving...

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...

manufacturer of underwater breathing apparatus (1870–1965) Charles Anthony Deane – Pioneering diving engineer and inventor of a surface supplied diving helmet...

Surface-supplied diving is a mode of underwater diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas through a diver's umbilical from the surface, either...

phenomenon in water that is not readily identifiable Wreck diving – Recreational diving on wrecks "Underwater and Maritime Archeology in Latin America and the Caribbean"...