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of day may also be available. Dive timer is an instrument that displays and records depth and elapsed time during the dive. It is usually possible to extract...

decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as badly injuring another dive tender. Built as Deep Sea Driller, it was the first-of-class...

voting logic, and the dive computer hardware may be hard-wired to the rebreather control hardware. A bottom timer, or dive timer, is an electronic device...

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and...

watch has been superseded by the personal dive computer, which provides an automatically initiated dive timer function along with real-time decompression...

Deep diving is underwater diving to a depth beyond the norm accepted by the associated community. In some cases this is a prescribed limit established...

A diving support vessel is a ship that is used as a floating base for professional diving projects. Basic requirements are the ability to keep station...

diver may dive on breath-hold (freediving) or use breathing apparatus for scuba diving or surface-supplied diving, and the saturation diving technique...

A diving bell is a rigid chamber used to transport divers from the surface to depth and back in open water, usually for the purpose of performing underwater...

A diving team is a group of people who work together to conduct a diving operation. A characteristic of professional diving is the specification for minimum...

A diving suit is a garment or device designed to protect a diver from the underwater environment. A diving suit may also incorporate a breathing gas supply...

Surface-supplied diving is a mode of underwater diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas through a diver's umbilical from the surface, either...

James Cameron piloted the craft to accomplish this goal in the second crewed dive reaching the Challenger Deep. Built in Sydney, Australia, by the research...

The diving reflex, also known as the diving response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the...

A diving chamber is a vessel for human occupation, which may have an entrance that can be sealed to hold an internal pressure significantly higher than...

Diving support equipment is the equipment used to facilitate a diving operation. It is either not taken into the water during the dive, such as the gas...

assignment at the Naval Coastal System Command, she was designated a Basic Diving Officer. She next reported to the Naval Air Training Command, where she...

Standard diving helmet Diving mask Band mask Full-face mask Half mask Instrumentation Bottom timer Depth gauge Dive computer Dive timer Diving watch Helium...

Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing...

Saturation diving is diving for periods long enough to bring all tissues into equilibrium with the partial pressures of the inert components of the breathing...