Introductory diving, also known as introductory scuba experience, trial diving and resort diving are dives where people without diver training or certification...

certifications. They also offer various technical diving courses. As of 2020, PADI claims to have issued 28 million scuba certifications. The levels are not specified...

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...

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

Altitude diving is underwater diving using scuba or surface supplied diving equipment where the surface is 300 metres (980 ft) or more above sea level...

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...

Retrieved 14 January 2011. "Multilevel and computer diving". Adventures in diving (PDF). PADI. 1991. pp. 165–184. ISBN 9781878663092. Archived (PDF)...

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...

divers PADI Delayed Surface Marker Buoy Diver – Diver trained to deploy a decompression buoy from depth PADI Discover Scuba Diving – Introductory scuba experience...

recreational diving by novice scuba divers in PADI Discover Scuba Diving programs (also called resort diving), for extended shore diving, night diving, and for...

times commercial applications such as sponge diving and marine salvage were established. Military diving also has a long history, going back at least...

The 1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident was a scuba diving incident on 28 May 1973 at a flooded sinkhole known as "The Shaft" near Mount Gambier in...

A frogman is someone who is trained in scuba diving or swimming underwater in a tactical capacity that includes military, and in some European countries...

Historically, the term free diving was also used to refer to scuba diving, due to the freedom of movement compared with surface supplied diving. In ancient times...

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

one qualifies on a specific type. 2.  Also called "Discover Scuba Diving by PADI." A single dive experience under the direct supervision of a recreational...

by professional divers engaged in surface-supplied diving, though some models can be used with scuba equipment. The upper part of the helmet, known colloquially...

Scientific diving is the use of underwater diving techniques by scientists to perform work underwater in the direct pursuit of scientific knowledge. The...

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...

main areas: Freediving and Scuba diving. The scuba certifications are divided into recreational diving and technical diving, where recreational is further...

diving stage, or in a diving bell. Descent rates are usually limited by equalisation issues, particularly with ears and sinuses, but on helmet dives can...

swimmer delivery vehicle (SDV) by armed forces, is an item of diving equipment used by scuba divers to increase range underwater. Range is restricted by...

developer team members hail from Sydney's cave-diving fraternity including Allum himself with many years of cave-diving experience.[citation needed] Working in...

An atmospheric diving suit (ADS), or single atmosphere diving suit is a small one-person articulated submersible which resembles a suit of armour, with...

explorer (1877–1962) Albert Falco – French scuba diver, chief diver and captain of the Calypso Scuba diving – Swimming underwater, breathing gas carried...

all minor contraindications for scuba diving, as this would result in overwhelming bureaucracy and would bring all diving to a halt. Human factors engineering...

sport of scuba diving in a multitude of capacities: photographer, author of eight diving books, early innovator in the development of dive tourism, pioneer...

Challenger Deep Timeline of diving technology – Chronological list of notable events in the history of underwater diving equipment Struwe, Jonathan (2019-05-04)...

riverboarding, scuba diving, snorkeling, spearfishing, underwater hockey, underwater rugby and various other types of underwater diving. Swimfins help...

operations in conjunction with simultaneous diving operations are under the overall supervision of the diving supervisor for safety reasons. The International...