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  2. Sidemount diving - Wikipedia

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    Sidemount diving offers some benefits in the flexibility of equipment. Cylinders suitable for sidemount diving are usually freely available for rental, unlike manifolded twin sets for back-mounted use, which allows the traveller to conduct technical or overhead environment dives without having to source twin cylinder sets.

  3. Buoyancy compensator (diving) - Wikipedia

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    Buoyancy compensators are also used with rebreathers. In most cases back-mounted technical diving rebreathers use a wing type bladder integrated with the rebreather harness, with the bladder around the frame of the rebreather. Side mounted rebreathers tend to be suspended from the sides of side-mount harnesses, which include the buoyancy ...

  4. Side mount - Wikipedia

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    Side mount may refer to more than one topic. Sidemount or side mount is a configuration of breathing gas cylinders carried by scuba divers, and a shortened form of Sidemount diving or Side mount diving; Side control also known as side mount is a wrestling technique

  5. Aqua-Lung - Wikipedia

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    It was an open circuit system supplied from two 200 bar cylinders, and used a single stage regulator to supply gas to a bag between the two back-mounted cylinders at slightly above ambient pressure. The gas was then supplied to the left side of a full-face mask by a corrugated rubber hose, and exhausted directly from the right side of the mask ...

  6. Personal protective equipment - Wikipedia

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    Safety glasses provide protection from external debris, and should provide side protection via a wrap-around design or side shields. [ 14 ] Goggles provide better protection than safety glasses, and are effective in preventing eye injury from chemical splashes, impact, dusty environments and welding. [ 14 ]

  7. United States Marine Corps Reconnaissance Battalions

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    A United States Marine Corps Reconnaissance Battalion (or commonly called Marine Division Recon) is a reconnaissance unit within the Ground Combat Element (GCE) of a Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) that conducts amphibious reconnaissance, underwater reconnaissance, advanced force operations, battlespace shaping, ground reconnaissance, surveillance, raids and direct action in support of ...

  8. List of Nike missile sites - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of Nike missile sites operated by the United States Army.This article lists sites in the United States, most responsible to Army Air Defense Command; however, the Army also deployed Nike missiles to Europe as part of the NATO alliance, with sites being operated by both American and European military forces.

  9. Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Mount Elbert at 14,440 feet (4,401.2 m) is the highest summit of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado. To the west of the Great Plains of Colorado rises the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. Notable peaks of the Rocky Mountains include Longs Peak, Mount Blue Sky, Pikes Peak, and the Spanish Peaks near Walsenburg, in southern