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2. Diving weighting system - Wikipedia

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   Discomfort or stress injury related to weight distribution and support. A weight belt hanging from the small of the back of a horizontal diver to counteract suit buoyancy spread over the full length of the diver can cause lower back pain. When walking on land before and after a dive, the weight belt may exert painful pressure on the hip joints.

3. Weightlifting belt - Wikipedia

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   The belt is usually used in exercises where the lower back gets a heavy load, like the squat, deadlift, [3] or military press. There are mixed reviews regarding the usage of weight lifting belts. On one hand the belt decreases stress on stabilizer muscles, but on the other hand these muscles get less benefit from the same exercise.

4. Mechanical advantage device - Wikipedia

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   Consider lifting a weight with rope and pulleys. A rope looped through a pulley attached to a fixed spot, e.g. a barn roof rafter, and attached to the weight is called a single pulley. It has a mechanical advantage (MA) = 1 (assuming frictionless bearings in the pulley), moving no mechanical advantage (or disadvantage) however advantageous the ...

5. Belt buckle - Wikipedia

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   A belt buckle is a buckle, a clasp for fastening two ends, such as of straps or a belt, in which a device attached to one of the ends is fitted or coupled to the other. The word enters Middle English via Old French and the Latin buccula or "cheek-strap," as for a helmet.

6. Glossary of underwater diving terminology: A–C - Wikipedia

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   A strap, usually of webbing, with a cam action tensioning buckle, generally used to secure a diving cylinder to a backplate, stabilisor jacket BCD or other form of diving harness. camel. See: Lifting bag#Closed lift bags (camels) A closed lifting bag, for use at or near the surface, which retains air in rough conditions. canister light

7. Backplate and wing - Wikipedia

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   The traditional backplate and wing harness has the benefit of reduced points of failure(due to it usually being a single piece of webbing with the front locking buckle the only break), ability to modify to personal requirements and stronger, safer, points for carrying equipment, and if needed to be attached to in a rescue scenario.