A diving mask (also half mask, dive mask or scuba mask) is an item of diving equipment that allows underwater divers, including scuba divers, free-divers...
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from the mask, unlike a scuba mouthpiece which is normally gripped between the teeth. Full-face diving masks are often used in professional diving. They...
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masks and full-face diving masks. Breathing gases used include air, heliox, nitrox and trimix. Saturation diving is a mode of surface supplied diving...
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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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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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Diving equipment, or underwater diving equipment, is equipment used by underwater divers to make diving activities possible, easier, safer and/or more...
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An oxygen mask is a mask that provides a method to transfer breathing oxygen gas from a storage tank to the lungs. Oxygen masks may cover only the nose...
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Snorkel (swimming) (redirect from Full-face snorkel mask)
It may be either a separate unit, or integrated into a swimming or diving mask. The integrated version is only suitable for surface snorkeling, while...
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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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A diving helmet is a rigid head enclosure with a breathing gas supply used in underwater diving. They are worn mainly by professional divers engaged in...
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Snorkeling (category Recreational diving)
or a diving mask, and swimfins. In cooler waters, a wetsuit may also be worn. The snorkel may be an independent item or integrated with the mask. The...
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have the following recreational diving equipment - a diving mask, fins, a snorkel, a buoyancy compensator, a diving weighting system that is independent...
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clean dry-suit and helmet or full-face mask which are decontaminated before the dive. Salvage diving is the diving work associated with the recovery of...
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Barotrauma (redirect from Mask squeeze)
(the under-pressure air space is inside the diving mask or swimming goggles) Skin (when wearing a diving suit which creates an air space) Brain and cranium...
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Tunnel vision (section Mask, goggle, and helmet users)
water. For this type of mask the peripheral field of the diver is extremely limited. Generally, the peripheral field of a diving mask is improved if the lenses...
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Byford Dolphin (redirect from Byford Dolphin diving bell accident)
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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surface-supplied breathing gas supply Band mask, a heavy duty full-face diving mask for surface-supplied diving Diving helmet, covering the entire head in a...
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face mask Balaclava, also known as a "ski mask", to protect the face against cold air. Baseball catcher's mask. Diving mask, an item of diving equipment...
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Surgical mask Cloth face mask Dust mask Diving mask, for use underwater Facemask (orthodontics), used for correcting teeth misalignments Facial mask, used...
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A non-rebreather mask (NRB, non-rebreather, non-rebreather facemask, etc.) is a device used in medicine to assist in the delivery of oxygen therapy. A...
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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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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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occupation. ama (海女) – a sea-diving fisherwoman ama (海士) – a sea-diving fisherman ama (海人), kaijin (海人) – a sea-diving fisherperson of either gender...
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Rebreather (section Diving rebreathers)
sets including rebreathers) NOAA Diving Program (U.S.) (28 Feb 2001). Joiner, James T. (ed.). NOAA Diving Manual, Diving for Science and Technology (4th ed...
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Scuba skills (redirect from Diving_mask_clearing)
Diving instructors affiliated to a diving certification agency may work independently, or through a university, a dive club, a dive school or a dive shop...
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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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Underwater hockey (section Mask)
requirement for clarification as an extreme-apnoea sport. Players wear a diving mask, snorkel and fins, and carry in one (either) hand a short stick or pusher...
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Orinasal mask inside a gas mask Orinasal mask inside full-face diving mask Orinasal mask inside a KM37 diving helmet The construction of an orinasal mask depends...
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Scuba set (redirect from Diving instrument console)
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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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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