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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Scuba diving fatalities are deaths occurring while scuba diving or as a consequence of scuba diving. The risks of dying during recreational, scientific...
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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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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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The history of scuba diving is closely linked with the history of the equipment. By the turn of the twentieth century, two basic architectures for underwater...
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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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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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pressure. Scuba is an anacronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Although strictly speaking the scuba set is only the diving equipment...
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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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content of the loop gas mixture. A scuba diving regulator is used to supply a scuba diver from a scuba cylinder, while a diving helmet demand valve may supply...
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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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Recreational diver training (redirect from ISO 24801 Recreational diving services — Requirements for the training of recreational scuba divers)
in that category. Basic diving theory: Diving physics Scuba equipment Physiology of diving Diving hazards and precautions Diving signals Buddy system Basic...
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Look up scuba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Scuba may refer to: Scuba diving, swimming underwater while breathing from a gas supply carried by the...
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They include technical diving sites beyond the range generally accepted for recreational diving. In this context all diving done for recreational purposes...
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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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are relevant to both open-circuit scuba and rebreather scuba, and many also apply to surface-supplied diving. Some scuba skills, which are critical to divers'...
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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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the buoyancy of other diving equipment, such as diving suits and aluminium diving cylinders, and buoyancy of the diver. The scuba diver must be weighted...
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complexes having in-house diving operations offering course work, daily excursions, scuba equipment sales and rentals. The diving on Grand Cayman is divided...
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Scuba Schools International (SSI) is a for-profit organization that teaches the skills involved in scuba diving and freediving, and supports dive businesses...
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for diving use. The fundamental item of diving equipment used by divers other than freedivers, is underwater breathing apparatus, such as scuba equipment...
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associated with recreational scuba diving. Compared to caving and scuba diving, there are relatively few practitioners of cave-diving. This is due in part to...
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divemasters, dive guides, and scuba technicians. A scuba diving tourism industry has developed to service recreational diving in regions with popular dive sites...
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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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breathing gas used with a scuba set, in which case the cylinder may also be referred to as a scuba cylinder, scuba tank or diving tank. When used for an...
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The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is a recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded in 1966 by John Cronin...
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(DIR) is a holistic approach to scuba diving that encompasses several essential elements, including fundamental diving skills, teamwork, physical fitness...
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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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Freediving (redirect from Free diving)
Historically, the term free diving was also used to refer to scuba diving, due to the freedom of movement compared with surface supplied diving. In ancient times...
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Diver down flag (redirect from Scuba flag)
marker buoy. Today the red and white flag is so strictly associated with scuba diving in North America that it is also used to indicate a place where there...
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