Scientific diving is the use of underwater diving techniques by scientists to perform work underwater in the direct pursuit of scientific knowledge. The...
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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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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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purposes this may include scientific, public safety, media, and military diving. That is similar to the definition for professional diving, but in those cases...
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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...
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Rebreather diving is underwater diving using diving rebreathers, a class of underwater breathing apparatus which recirculate the breathing gas exhaled...
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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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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...
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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...
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Diving activities Diving activities are the things people do while diving underwater. People may dive for various reasons, both personal and professional...
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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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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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into force on June 23, 1961. The first scientific diving protocols were established before 1960 and the first diving operations were documented in November...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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Decompression practice (redirect from Flying after diving)
"Commercial Diving: 90m Operational Aspects" (PDF). Advanced Scientific Diving Workshop. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 30 June 2012. US Navy Diving Manual...
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atmospheric pressure are provided for diving-related applications such as saturation diving and diver decompression, and non-diving medical applications such as...
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Shark cage diving is underwater diving or snorkeling where the observer remains inside a protective cage designed to prevent sharks from making contact...
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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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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...
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atmospheric pressure when free-diving or snorkelling will not usually need to decompress. Divers using an atmospheric diving suit do not need to decompress...
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recreational, scientific, and military diving operations. There is no reason to assume that they cannot be valuable tools for commercial diving operations...
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Surface-supplied diving is a mode of underwater diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas through a diver's umbilical from the surface, either...
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organised scuba diving course and certified their first skin and scuba diving instructors in the United States. When a scientific diving operation is part...
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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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"Atmospheric Diving Suits – New Technology May Provide ADS Systems that are Practical and Cost-Effective Tools for Conducting Safe Scientific Diving, Exploration...
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Diving bells are usually suspended by a cable, and lifted and lowered by a winch from a surface support platform. Unlike a submersible, the diving bell...
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Diving regulations are the stipulations of the delegated legislation regarding the practice of underwater diving. They apply within the national territory...
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