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Technical diver during a decompression stop. There is some professional disagreement as to what exactly technical diving encompasses. [10] [11] [12] It is an arbitrary distinction, and the line has been drawn in different places by different organisations, and has shifted on a few occasions.
Advanced Diving Equipment Company – American manufacturer of surface supplied diving helmets – Swindell free-flow open circuit air helmets. [1]Aeris (dive gear) – American brand of scuba equipment Originally a brand of American Underwater Products, founded in 1998, and merged into a sister-brand, Oceanic, in 2014.
PADI TecRec (DSAT) - Professional Association of Diving Instructors – Recreational diver training and certification agency; GUE - Global Underwater Explorers – Recreational/technical scuba training and certification agency
Gunilda was a steel-hulled Scottish-built steam yacht in service between her construction in 1897 and her sinking in Lake Superior in 1911. Built in 1897 in Leith, Scotland by Ramage & Ferguson for J. M. or A. R. & J. M. Sladen, and became owned by F. W. Sykes in 1898; her first and second owners were all from England.
Decompression in the context of diving derives from the reduction in ambient pressure experienced by the diver during the ascent at the end of a dive or hyperbaric exposure and refers to both the reduction in pressure and the process of allowing dissolved inert gases to be eliminated from the tissues during this reduction in pressure.
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.
A buoyancy compensator (BC), also called a buoyancy control device (BCD), stabilizer, stabilisor, stab jacket, wing or adjustable buoyancy life jacket (ABLJ), depending on design, is a type of diving equipment which is worn by divers to establish neutral buoyancy underwater and positive buoyancy at the surface, when needed.
Rebreather diver with bailout and decompression cylinders. Scuba gas management is the aspect of scuba diving which includes the gas planning, blending, filling, analysing, marking, storage, and transportation of gas cylinders for a dive, the monitoring and switching of breathing gases during a dive, efficient and correct use of the gas, and the provision of emergency gas to another member of ...