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    A diving bell is a rigid chamber used to transport divers from the surface to depth and back in open water, usually for the purpose of performing underwater...
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    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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    The diving bell spider or water spider (Argyroneta aquatica) is the only species of spider known to live almost entirely under water. It is the only member...
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  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (original French title: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) is a memoir by journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby. It describes his...
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  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (French: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) is a 2007 biographical drama film directed by Julian Schnabel and written by...
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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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    from the shore or from a diving support vessel, sometimes indirectly via a diving bell. This is different from scuba diving, where the diver's breathing...
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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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  • routine dive in the East Shetland Basin of the North Sea, the diving bell of the diving support vessel MS Wildrake became separated from its main lift...
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    consists of compartments operating under the same principles as diving bells and diving chambers, but placed in a fixed position on the sea floor for long-term...
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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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    Surface supplied diving skills are the skills and procedures required for the safe operation and use of surface-supplied diving equipment. Besides these...
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    technical diving, professional divers would generally use a wet or dry diving bell for the same purpose. A diving stage, sometimes known as a diving basket...
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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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    in ambient pressure diving started with stone weights (skandalopetra) for fast descent. In the 16th and 17th centuries diving bells became functionally...
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  • routine dive beside the Beryl Alpha platform in the North Sea, the diving bell of the diving support vessel MS Star Canopus was lost when its main lift wire...
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    A diving cylinder or diving gas cylinder is a gas cylinder used to store and transport high pressure gas used in diving operations. This may be breathing...
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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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    Commercial diving may be considered an application of professional diving where the diver engages in underwater work for industrial, construction, engineering...
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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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    McCann diving bell. When the redesigned diving bell was completed in late 1930, it was introduced as the McCann Submarine Rescue Chamber. The final bell, with...
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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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    Gibraltar Harbour's air lock diving-bell plant, or caisson diving bell barge, was a purpose-built barge for the laying, examination and repair of moorings...
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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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  • The Stena Seaspread diving accident occurred on 21 January 1981, when a diving bell containing two divers had its umbilical cord severed. Both divers...
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  • This episode's stories were primarily spoofs of the French film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the television series Dexter, and the American film...
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  • working three hours a day, seven days a week. The resulting book, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, was published on Friday, 7 March 1997. It went on...
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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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    Commercial offshore diving, sometimes shortened to just offshore diving, generally refers to the branch of commercial diving, with divers working in support...
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  • timeline of underwater diving technology is a chronological list of notable events in the history of the development of underwater diving equipment. With the...
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