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2. Diving equipment - Wikipedia

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   Diving equipment. Diving equipment, or underwater diving equipment, is equipment used by underwater divers to make diving activities possible, easier, safer and/or more comfortable. This may be equipment primarily intended for this purpose, or equipment intended for other purposes which is found to be suitable for diving use.

3. Underwater breathing apparatus - Wikipedia

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   Underwater breathing apparatus is equipment which allows the user to breathe underwater. The three major categories of ambient pressure underwater breathing apparatus are: Open circuit scuba, where the diver carries the gas supply, and exhaled gas is exhausted to the environment [1] Diving rebreather, where the diver carries the gas supply, and ...

4. Aqua-Lung - Wikipedia

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   Aqua-Lung. Aqua-Lung[1] was the first open-circuit, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (or "scuba") to achieve worldwide popularity and commercial success. This class of equipment is now commonly referred to as a twin-hose diving regulator, [2] or demand valve. The Aqua-Lung was invented in France during the winter of 1942–1943 by ...

5. Scuba diving - Wikipedia

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   Scuba diving - Wikipedia ... Scuba diving

6. Diving mask - Wikipedia

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   Diving mask. A diving mask (also half mask, dive mask or scuba mask) is an item of diving equipment that allows underwater divers, including scuba divers, free-divers, and snorkelers, to see clearly underwater. [1][2] Surface supplied divers usually use a full face mask or diving helmet, but in some systems the half mask may be used. [2]

7. Timeline of diving technology - Wikipedia

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   The diver still walked on the seabed and did not swim. The air pressure tanks made with the technology of the time could only hold 30 atmospheres, allowing dives of only 30 minutes at no more than ten meters deep; [56] during surface-supplied configuration the tank was also used for bailout in the case of a hose failure. [56]