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The National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI Worldwide) is a nonprofit association of scuba instructors founded in 1960 by Albert Tillman and Neal Hess. [2] [3]NAUI primarily serves as a recreational dive certification and membership organization, providing international diver standards and education programs.
Scuba diver of the late 1960s. 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 breathing apparatus had been pioneered; open-circuit surface supplied equipment where the diver's exhaled gas is vented directly into the water, and closed-circuit breathing apparatus where the diver's carbon ...
YMCA SCUBA Program (also known as Y-SCUBA) was an underwater diving training program operated by YMCA of the USA from 1959 to 2008. It was the first nationally organised underwater diving instruction program offered in the United States of America .
Underwater diving was practiced in ancient cultures to gather food and other valuable resources such as pearls and precious coral, and later to reclaim sunken valuables, and to help aid military campaigns. Breathhold diving was the only method available, occasionally using reed snorkels in shallow water, and stone weights for deeper dives. [1]
The timeline of underwater diving technology is a chronological list of notable events in the history of the development of underwater diving equipment.With the partial exception of breath-hold diving, the development of underwater diving capacity, scope, and popularity, has been closely linked to available technology, and the physiological constraints of the underwater environment.
Manifold Options for Cave Diving [33] Scuba Diving International/Technical Diving International. My Favorite Dive [34] Neutral Buoyancy—Let’s Get Real! [35] Continuing Education [36] Into the Abyss [37] Scuba Poker: A Navigational Training Exercise [38] Rebreathers—Are They for Me? [39] A Day in the Life of a Research Diver [40] Ten ...
A scuba diving emergency is an incident while scuba diving, in which there is a high probability of death or severe injury if the problem is not resolved quickly. [133] A diving emergency may be related to life-support, [1] decompression stress and barotraume, [1] incapacitation or inability to cope, [134] or an acute medical problem. [116]
Hugh Bradner (November 5, 1915 – May 5, 2008) was an American physicist at the University of California who is credited with inventing the neoprene wetsuit, which helped to revolutionize scuba diving and surfing. A graduate of Ohio's Miami University, he received his doctorate from California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, in