Scuba diving fatalities are deaths occurring while scuba diving or as a consequence of scuba diving. The risks of dying during recreational, scientific...

Recreational diving or sport diving is diving for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment, usually when using scuba equipment. The term "recreational diving" may...

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and...

diver may dive on breath-hold (freediving) or use breathing apparatus for scuba diving or surface-supplied diving, and the saturation diving technique...

Scuba diving tourism is the industry based on servicing the requirements of recreational divers at destinations other than where they live. It includes...

Europe. SCUBA Diving International, launched in 1998 or 1999, is the sister organization of Technical Diving International. SDI was created by dive professionals...

The history of scuba diving is closely linked with the history of the equipment. By the turn of the twentieth century, two basic architectures for underwater...

associated with recreational scuba diving. Compared to caving and scuba diving, there are relatively few practitioners of cave-diving. This is due in part to...

pressure. Scuba is an anacronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Although strictly speaking the scuba set is only the diving equipment...

to the exit. There are some applications where scuba diving is appropriate and surface-supplied diving is not, and other where the converse is true. In...

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...

the buoyancy of other diving equipment, such as diving suits and aluminium diving cylinders, and buoyancy of the diver. The scuba diver must be weighted...

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...

content of the 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...

Professional diving is underwater diving where the divers are paid for their work. Occupational diving has a similar meaning and applications. The procedures...

compensator is a standard item of scuba diving equipment, though not always necessary, and an optional item for surface-supplied diving, where neutral or positive...

(DIR) is a holistic approach to scuba diving that encompasses several essential elements, including fundamental diving skills, teamwork, physical fitness...

live-boat diving). There are a range of specialised procedures for boat diving, which include water entry and exit, avoiding injury by the dive boat, and...

DACOR Corporation was a former American manufacturer of scuba diving equipment which was founded in 1954 by Sam Davison Jr. in Evanston, Illinois as "The...

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...

presentable while diving. Even in modern times, ama dive without scuba gear or air tanks, making them a traditional sort of freediver. Pearl diving ama were considered...

Commercial diving may be considered an application of professional diving where the diver engages in underwater work for industrial, construction, engineering...

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...

used in breathing equipment and enclosed habitats such as scuba equipment, surface supplied diving equipment, recompression chambers, high-altitude mountaineering...

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...

divemasters, dive guides, and scuba technicians. A scuba diving tourism industry has developed to service recreational diving in regions with popular dive sites...

diving fatalities". Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine. 35 (6). Bethesda, Maryland: 393–406. PMID 19175195. Acott, CJ (2003). "Recreational scuba diving equipment...

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...

Scuba diving therapy is a type of treatment that consists of a variety of scuba diving activities and exercises. Essential elements are increased body...

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