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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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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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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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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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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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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the water, and where the diving is usually secondary to the work. In some legislation, commercial diving is defined as any diving done by an employee as...
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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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diving for non-professional purposes. Technical diving may expose the diver to hazards beyond those normally associated with recreational diving, and to a...
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The Professional Diving Instructors Corporation (PDIC) is an international SCUBA training and certification agency. It has an estimated 5 million active...
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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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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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1997. ProTec offers diving education standards and training procedures for beginners through to advanced and diving professionals. These standards and...
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Byford Dolphin (redirect from Byford Dolphin diving bell accident)
Underwater diving portal Commercial offshore diving – Professional diving in support of the oil and gas industry Saturation diving – Diving decompression...
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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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A diving suit is a garment or device designed to protect a diver from the underwater environment. A diving suit may also incorporate a breathing gas supply...
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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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public safety diving, and forensic diving, which is search and recovery diving for evidence and bodies. Police diving includes forensic diving – the recovery...
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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 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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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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The diving reflex, also known as the diving response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the...
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Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally...
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personnel Fitness to dive assessment Fitness to dive standards (professional and recreational) Diving accidents Diving incidents and accidents Emergency medical...
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Diver training (redirect from Diving school)
part of the dive team, and apply similarly to professional and recreational diving, include: Compressor operator – Person who operates a diving air compressor...
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safety of breathable atmosphere at the surface. Cave diving, wreck diving, ice diving and diving inside or under other natural or artificial underwater...
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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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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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Tom Daley (category Olympic medalists in diving)
four-time Commonwealth champion. Daley started diving at the age of seven and is a member of Plymouth Diving Club, where his talent was identified early...
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