Scientific diving is the use of underwater diving techniques by scientists to perform work underwater in the direct pursuit of scientific knowledge. The...

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

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

purposes this may include scientific, public safety, media, and military diving. That is similar to the definition for professional diving, but in those cases...

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

Practice of Scuba Diving (1st ed.). Parkville, MO: Dive Training Magazine. ISBN 978-0-615-72133-0. Hanauer, Eric (2003). "Scientific Diving at Scripps". Oceanography...

Rebreather diving is underwater diving using diving rebreathers, a class of underwater breathing apparatus which recirculate the breathing gas exhaled...

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...

diver may dive on breath-hold (freediving) or use breathing apparatus for scuba diving or surface-supplied diving, and the saturation diving technique...

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...

Diving regulations are the stipulations of the delegated legislation regarding the practice of underwater diving. They apply within the national territory...

Diving safety officer (DSO) is the title held by the person who administers a United States university's research diving safety program. They serve as...

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...

organised scuba diving course and certified their first skin and scuba diving instructors in the United States. When a scientific diving operation is part...

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...

into force on June 23, 1961. The first scientific diving protocols were established before 1960 and the first diving operations were documented in November...

Wall diving is underwater diving alongside a near vertical face, usually an underwater cliff. It is a type of reef diving popular among recreational divers...

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

safety of breathable atmosphere at the surface. Cave diving, wreck diving, ice diving and diving inside or under other natural or artificial underwater...

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...

Diving equipment, or underwater diving equipment, is equipment used by underwater divers to make diving activities possible, easier, safer and/or more...

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...

Saturation. Proceedings of Advanced Scientific Diving Workshop. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. US Navy Diving Manual Revision 6, Chpt. 15 sect...

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...

Open water diving is underwater diving in an open water environment, where the diver has unrestricted access by way of a direct vertical ascent to the...

for Scientific Diving Certification and Operation of Scientific Diving Programs. These are the consensual guidelines for scientific diving programs in the...

Altitude diving is underwater diving using scuba or surface supplied diving equipment where the surface is 300 metres (980 ft) or more above sea level...

atmospheric pressure are provided for diving-related applications such as saturation diving and diver decompression, and non-diving medical applications such as...

Shark cage diving is underwater diving or snorkeling where the observer remains inside a protective cage designed to prevent sharks from making contact...