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    An emergency ascent is an ascent to the surface by a diver in an emergency. More specifically, it refers to any of several procedures for reaching the...
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    the dive team, buoyancy and trim control, mobility in the water, ascent, emergency and rescue procedures, exit from the water, removal of equipment after...
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    perform an ascent in a controlled manner, breathing as normal. When no redundant air supply is available, the diver can make a controlled emergency swimming...
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  • entanglement or entrapment, rough water, equipment misuse or problems and emergency ascent. The most common injuries and causes of death were drowning or asphyxia...
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    profiles, such as slightly greater depth, delayed ascent and early ascent. Sometimes an emergency minimum decompression schedule and a more conservative...
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    managed at depth. Controlled emergency ascents are almost always a consequence of loss of breathing gas, while uncontrolled ascents are usually the result of...
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    ascent with any required decompression, in place of a controlled emergency swimming ascent, which will not allow required decompression. A bailout cylinder...
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  • Controlled buoyant emergency ascent – Fine control of buoyancy to ascend at an acceptably safe rate. Emergency swimming ascentsEmergency ascent where the diver...
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    The Subaru Ascent is a mid-size crossover SUV produced by Subaru. In some markets, it is sold as the Subaru Evoltis. It is the largest automobile Subaru...
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  • occur on any dive profile: at constant depth, on an ascent from depth, or at the surface following ascent from depth and may be described by a number of terms...
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    the possibility of an uncontrollable ascent to the surface. This risk can only be justified when the emergency is life-threatening or the risk of decompression...
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    Emergency evacuation is an immediate egress or escape of people away from an area that contains an imminent threat, an ongoing threat or a hazard to lives...
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  • Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies...
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    rebreather used before and during World War II by American submariners as emergency escape gear. It was invented by Charles Momsen, who worked on it from...
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    emergency, such as depletion of the diver's main air supply, it can be used as an alternative air source or bailout bottle to allow a normal ascent in...
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    safe ascent. Decompression may be continuous or staged, where the ascent is interrupted by stops at regular depth intervals, but the entire ascent is part...
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    required in Korea and so it instead volunteered to fight in the Malayan Emergency. Upon arrival in Malaya, it came under the command of "Mad Mike" Mike...
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    The Emergency in India was a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had a state of emergency declared across the country...
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    for safe ascent and descent in underwater diving Diver trim – Balance and orientation skills of an underwater diver Emergency ascent – An ascent to the...
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  • A diving emergency or underwater diving emergency is an emergency that involves an underwater diver. The nature of an emergency requires action to be taken...
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    Decompression sickness (category Medical emergencies)
    emergency. To prevent the excess formation of bubbles that can lead to decompression sickness, divers limit their ascent rate—the recommended ascent rate...
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