Dive leader is the title of an internationally recognised recreational diving certification. The training standard describes the minimum requirements...

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

ISO 24801-3 Dive Leader. The British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) recognizes several agencies' divemaster certificates as equivalent to BSAC Dive Leader, but not...

decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as critically injuring another dive tender. Built as Deep Sea Driller, Byford Dolphin...

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

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...

A dive boat is a boat that recreational divers or professional scuba divers use to reach a dive site which they could not conveniently reach by swimming...

The diving reflex, also known as the diving response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the...

A dive computer, personal decompression computer or decompression meter is a device used by an underwater diver to measure the elapsed time and depth during...

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...

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

(SMB) with a reel and line is often used by a dive leader to allow the boat to monitor progress of the dive group. This can provide the operator with a...

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...

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

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...

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...

recreational dive in similar environment in the absence of a current. The exceptions are the use of a surface marker buoy by the dive leader, and delayed...

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...

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...

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...

Safety and rescue skills Diving support skills Dever training skills Dive leader describes the minimum requirements for dive leader training and certification...

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...

a local veteran divemaster, Iván Díaz. As the group was surfacing from a dive, a powerboat moving at high speed entered the restricted area. MacColl saw...

safety of breathable atmosphere at the surface. Cave diving, wreck diving, ice diving and diving inside or under other natural or artificial underwater...

A dive briefing or pre-dive briefing is a meeting of the diving team or dive group before the dive to allow the instructor, supervisor, dive leader or...

Surface-supplied diving is a mode of underwater diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas through a diver's umbilical from the surface, either...

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...

The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is a recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded in 1966 by John Cronin...

Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing...