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Diver with chest-mounted rebreather. Chest mount is fairly common for military oxygen rebreathers, which are usually relatively compact and light. It allows easy reach of the components underwater, and leaves the back free for other equipment for amphibious operations.
The word SCUBA was coined in 1952 by Major Christian Lambertsen who served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1946 as a physician. [1] Lambertsen first called the closed-circuit rebreather apparatus he had invented "Laru", an (acronym for Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit) but, in 1952, rejected the term "Laru" for "SCUBA" ("Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus"). [2]
A house for sale by its owner. For sale by owner (FSBO) is the process of selling real estate without the representation of a broker or agent. This is where the homeowner sells directly to a new homeowner. Homeowners may still employ the services of marketing, online listing companies, but can also market their own property.
Side mounted primary and bailout. Usually identical units, one carried on each side. Relatively simple, but not easy to combine with a bailout valve on a single mouthpiece. [44] Asymmetrical: Back mounted primary, side mounted bailout [44] Back mounted primary, chest mounted bailout [44]
A powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) is a type of respirator that consists of a headgear-and-fan assembly that passes ambient air through purifying units that remove contaminants and deliver clean air to the inside of the headgear covering the user's face or mouth and nose. Also known as positive-pressure masks, blower units, or just blowers.
Main Igloo production facility in Waller County, Texas. The company's headquarters are in unincorporated Waller County, Texas, United States, west of the city of Katy. [6] The complex has almost 1,400,000 square feet (130,000 m 2) of space on a 105-acre (42 ha) plot.
The increasing interest in sidemount diving configurations prompted several manufacturers and individuals to design and sell their own designs of a sidemount system. Hollis, OMS, UTD developed equipment, while Steve Bogaerts (a UK-born cave pioneer, who lives and dives in Mexico) released the popular minimalist 'Razor' system and began teaching ...
Surface-supplied diver at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California US Navy Diver using Kirby Morgan Superlight 37 diving helmet [1]. Surface-supplied diving is a mode of underwater diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas through a diver's umbilical from the surface, either from the shore or from a diving support vessel, sometimes indirectly via a diving bell. [2]