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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

diving for non-professional purposes. Technical diving may expose the diver to hazards beyond those normally associated with recreational diving, and to a...

The Professional Diving Instructors Corporation (PDIC) is an international SCUBA training and certification agency. It has an estimated 5 million active...

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...

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...

Underwater diving portal Commercial offshore diving – Professional diving in support of the oil and gas industry Saturation diving – Diving decompression...

Diving equipment, or underwater diving equipment, is equipment used by underwater divers to make diving activities possible, easier, safer and/or more...

1997. ProTec offers diving education standards and training procedures for beginners through to advanced and diving professionals. These standards and...

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

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...

public safety diving, and forensic diving, which is search and recovery diving for evidence and bodies. Police diving includes forensic diving – the recovery...

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

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...

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...

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally...

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

personnel Fitness to dive assessment Fitness to dive standards (professional and recreational) Diving accidents Diving incidents and accidents Emergency medical...

Diving activities Diving activities are the things people do while diving underwater. People may dive for various reasons, both personal and professional...

The diving environment is the natural or artificial surroundings in which a dive is done. It is usually underwater, but professional diving is sometimes...

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

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...

part of the dive team, and apply similarly to professional and recreational diving, include: Compressor operator – Person who operates a diving air compressor...

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...