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Sailor was a major BBC television documentary series, first shown in 1976, about life on board the fourth HMS Ark Royal, a British aircraft carrier.It followed the ship on a five-and-a-half-month deployment to North America in 1976.
The Life Regiment Hussars (Swedish: Livregementets husarer; designated K 3) is one of the world's oldest regiments still active. The regiment descends directly from units set up by King Gustav I of Sweden (Gustav Vasa) in 1536, when Sweden set up a draft of horses and men north and south of Stockholm. The regiment was very active in the 1600s ...
Life Guards' Dragoon Music Corps. The Royal Swedish Cavalry Band (Swedish: Livgardets dragonmusikkår, LDK) is one of three professional military bands in the Swedish Armed Forces. The band traces its ancestry back to the 1500s when King Gustav Vasa raised his first regiment of horse. Today LDK is one of few mounted bands in the world.
Vasa became the most widely recognised name of the ship, largely because the Vasa Museum chose this form of the name as its 'official' orthography in the late 1980s. This spelling was adopted because it is the form preferred by modern Swedish language authorities, and conforms to the spelling reforms instituted in Sweden in the early 20th century.
The barracks of Svea Life Guards and Göta Life Guards at Linnégatan, Stockholm, circa 1890. Svea Life Guards was an enlisted regiment and its staff, which was stationed in the barracks at Fredrikshov, was permanently employed. In the early 1800s compulsory military service in Sweden was introduced on a modest scale. [8]
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.
ISO 11121 introductory training programmes to scuba diving. (PADI equivalent – Discover Scuba Diving) Most PADI training programes are not directly covered by ISO standards. PADI is a member of the following member councils of the World Recreational Scuba Training Council – the RSTC Canada, the RSTC Europe and the C-Card Council (Japan).
The Bühlmann decompression model is a neo-Haldanian model which uses Haldane's or Schreiner's formula for inert gas uptake, a linear expression for tolerated inert gas pressure coupled with a simple parameterised expression for alveolar inert gas pressure and expressions for combining Nitrogen and Helium parameters to model the way inert gases enter and leave the human body as the ambient ...