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Scubapro – Brand of scuba diving equipment – Scuba regulators, fins, lights, dive computers, Seacraft (DPV brand), also known as Marine Tech S.A. – Polish manufacturer of diver propulsion vehicles. [119] Seac Sub Italian manufacturer of diving equipment for scuba, freediving, spearfishing and snorkelling. [120] Seadive – (See Oceanways ...
Two U.S. Marines of the Maritime Special Purpose Force operating a Diver Propulsion Device (DPD). A diver propulsion vehicle (DPV), also known as an underwater propulsion vehicle, sea scooter, [1] underwater scooter, or swimmer delivery vehicle (SDV) by armed forces, is an item of diving equipment used by scuba divers to increase range underwater.
The sQuba, developed by Swiss company Rinspeed, is the world's first car that can be driven both on land and underwater. [1] [2] The original idea by Rinspeed founder and CEO Frank M. Rinderknecht was inspired by the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. The chassis from the Lotus Elise is used as the base for this vehicle. [3]
Diving bell – Chamber for transporting divers vertically through the water; Diving stage – Platform on which a diver is transported vertically through the water; Remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROUV) – A tethered underwater mobile device operated by a remote crew; Submarine – Watercraft capable of independent underwater operation
Scuba diver in Maldives. Scuba diving tourism is the industry based on servicing the requirements of recreational divers at destinations other than where they live. It includes aspects of training, equipment sales, rental and service, guided experiences and environmental tourism.
It’s also remote: the dive centres are at least 30 minutes from the nearest town, Mbazwana, along a broken road that is often filled with more cows than cars.
A cave diver running a reel with guide line into the overhead environment. Cave diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves.The equipment used varies depending on the circumstances, and ranges from breath hold to surface supplied, but almost all cave diving is done using scuba equipment, often in specialised configurations with redundancies such as sidemount or backmounted twinset.
Underwater diving is practiced as part of an occupation, or for recreation, where the practitioner submerges below the surface of the water or other liquid for a period which may range between seconds to order of a day at a time, either exposed to the ambient pressure or isolated by a pressure resistant suit, to interact with the underwater ...