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It is a non-profit, global organization with more than 1,300 members, which promotes scuba diving through consumer awareness programs and media campaigns such as the national Be a Diver campaign; diver retention initiatives such as DiveCaching; and an annual trade-only event for businesses in the scuba diving, action watersports and adventure ...
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.
Scuba set; Side-mount scuba; Side-slung bailout set; Single atmosphere diving suit; Snuba; Stage set (scuba) Standard diving dress; Standard diving equipment; Submarine escape set; Surface-supplied breathing apparatus
A 1964 scuba cylinder valve with reserve, commonly known as a "type J" valve. The inlet is threaded 3/4"-14 NPSM and the outlet is a standard CGA 850 yoke type. The first-stage of the scuba regulator may be connected to the cylinder valve by one of two standard types of fittings.
The usual meaning of diving helmet is a piece of diving equipment that encases the user's head and delivers breathing gas to the diver, but the term "diving helmet", or "cave diving helmet" may also refer to a safety helmet like a climbing helmet or caving helmet that covers the top and back of the head, but is not sealed.
The pressure vessel is a seamless cylinder normally made of cold-extruded aluminum or forged steel. [5] Filament wound composite cylinders are used in fire fighting breathing apparatus and oxygen first aid equipment because of their low weight, but are rarely used for diving, due to their high positive buoyancy.
This depends on the diver's mass and body composition, buoyancy of other diving gear worn (especially the diving suit), water salinity, weight of breathing gas consumed, and water temperature. It normally is in the range of 2 kilograms (4.4 lb) to 15 kilograms (33 lb).
Draeger Ray dive/surface valve with bite grip scuba mouthpiece, non-return valves, and breathing hoses. A breathing hose or sometimes breathing tube on a rebreather is a flexible tube for breathing gas to pass through at ambient pressure. They are distinguished from the low-, intermediate-, and high-pressure hoses which may also be parts of ...