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    Scuba gas planning is the aspect of dive planning and of gas management which deals with the calculation or estimation of the amounts and mixtures of gases...
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    breathing gas at the ambient pressure. Scuba is an anacronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Although strictly speaking the scuba set is...
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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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    Gas blending for scuba diving (or gas mixing) is the filling of diving cylinders with non-air breathing gases such as nitrox, trimix and heliox. Use of...
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    the surface, or the breathing gas is reclaimed, processed and re-used. Scuba gas planning is the aspect of dive planning which deals with the calculation...
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  • scientific or commercial diving are small, and on scuba, deaths are usually associated with poor gas management, poor buoyancy control, equipment misuse...
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    Scuba gas management is the aspect of scuba diving which includes the gas planning, blending, filling, analysing, marking, storage, and transportation...
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  • Rule of thirds (diving) (category Dive planning)
    is planned, the "rock bottom" gas planning procedure is more versatile but more complex to calculate. Other rules of thumb for scuba gas planning exist...
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    Gas mixture occasionally used by scuba divers for dry-suit inflation Heliox – A breathing gas mixed from helium and oxygen Hydreliox – Breathing gas mixture...
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    diving are lower risk of drowning and considerably larger breathing gas supply than scuba, allowing longer working periods and safer decompression. Disadvantages...
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  • when scuba diving Gas panel – Breathing gas distribution panel for surface-supplied diving Gas reclaim system – System to recover used breathing gas and...
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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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  • as redundant breathing gas sources and guide lines to indicate the route to the exit. There are some applications where scuba diving is appropriate and...
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    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 gas from...
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  • Breathing gas – Gas used for human respiration Argox – Gas mixture occasionally used by scuba divers for dry-suit inflation Heliox – A breathing gas mixed...
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    breathing gas. Other mixtures of gases, or pure oxygen, are also used in breathing equipment and enclosed habitats such as scuba equipment, surface supplied...
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    application to obtain planning permission for a wind turbine in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and gave evidence at the planning inquiry arguing in...
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    in the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, some 35 kilometres (22 mi) from the planned touchdown site. In July 2015, NASA announced Williams as one of the first...
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    understanding of the basic principles, and the skills and procedures for the use of scuba equipment so that the diver is able to dive for recreational purposes with...
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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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    is mostly for open water scuba diving with limited decompression. Scuba diving implies the use of an autonomous breathing gas supply carried by the diver...
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    On Saturday, 5 November 1983, at 4:00 a.m., while drilling in the Frigg gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, four divers were in a diving...
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    cylinder is a scuba cylinder carried by an underwater diver for use as an emergency supply of breathing gas in the event of a primary gas supply failure...
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    self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba). A semi-closed rebreather carried by the diver may also be known as a gas extender. The same technology on a...
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    California Peninsula in Mexico when he heard via his boat's radio that two scuba divers were reported missing in the area. Irwin and his entire crew suspended...
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  • managed. A similar emergency occurs when a scuba diver accumulates more decompression obligation than the available gas endurance for decompression. This can...
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  • the scuba diving regulator set rented from the school did not have a compatible dry suit inflation hose connected, so it was not possible to add gas to...
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    forces of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division which was planning the offensive. SEALs along with the Scouts and SMP, would conduct reconnaissance...
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    Diving cylinder (redirect from Scuba tank)
    gas cylinder is a gas cylinder used to store and transport high pressure gas used in diving operations. This may be breathing gas used with a scuba set...
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    candidates are required to spend a week assessing their ability to carry out planning for UKSF operations while fatigued and stressed. Following mountain training...
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