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2. Technical diving - Wikipedia

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   Technical diving (also referred to as tec diving or tech diving) is scuba diving that exceeds the agency-specified limits of recreational diving for non-professional purposes. Technical diving may expose the diver to hazards beyond those normally associated with recreational diving, and to a greater risk of serious injury or death.

3. List of diving equipment manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Delta P Technology – Technical dive computer manufacturer – (VR2) [33] Demone Manufacturing Company – Scuba regulators, cylinder valves. (historical) [3] DESCO, also known as Diving Equipment and Supply Company Inc. – American manufacturer of commercial diving equipment – Surface supplied and scuba equipment, standard diving equipment.

4. Trimix (breathing gas) - Wikipedia

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   It is used in deep commercial diving, during the deep phase of dives carried out using technical diving techniques, [1] [2] and in advanced recreational diving. [3] [4] The helium is included as a substitute for some of the nitrogen, to reduce the narcotic effect of the breathing gas at depth and to reduce the work of breathing. With a mixture ...

5. Diving equipment - Wikipedia

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   Solo and technical divers may also carry a backup mask, dive computer, decompression gas and other equipment based on risk assessment for the planned dive. [19] Some backup equipment may be spread amongst a diving team, when instant availability is nor critical, this practice is termed team redundancy .

6. Doing It Right (scuba diving) - Wikipedia

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   Several years after defining the DIR practices in his seminal "Doing It Right" article, Irvine became involved in making a highly public personal attack on Rob Palmer (founder of the International Technical Diving Association (ITDA) and one of the significant [108] [109] [110] pioneers of technical and cave diving [111]) at the time of Palmer's ...

7. Decompression equipment - Wikipedia

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   This equipment is almost exclusively used by surface supplied professional divers, as it requires fairly complex man-rated lifting equipment. A diving stage allows the surface team to conveniently manage a diver's decompression as it can be hoisted at a controlled rate and stopped at the correct depth for decompression stops, and allows the ...

8. Sidemount diving - Wikipedia

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   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.

9. Scuba set - Wikipedia

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   One reasonably widely held definition is that any dive in which at some point of the planned profile it is not physically possible or physiologically acceptable to make a direct and uninterrupted vertical ascent to surface air is a technical dive. [77] The equipment often involves breathing gases other than air or standard nitrox mixtures ...