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Salvus is a Latin adjective meaning "safe". It may refer to: Siebe Gorman Salvus, a British industrial rescue and shallow water oxygen rebreather Salvus...

famous for its Salvus spa water in the middle of the 20th century. Official website (in Hungarian) Aerialphotographs from Bükkszék Salvus spa (in English)...

anklets) inside the wetsuit chest. The Salvus has no provision to connect to a buoyancy device; but the Salvus can be worn with a separate diver's lifejacket...

the hands are exposed to cold water, even when passive insulation of the hands is provided. In sufficiently cold water, non-freezing cold injury is possible...

for almost any large body of water; it is a return flow compensating for the onshore-directed average transport of water by the waves in the zone above...

Pressure washing or power washing is the use of high-pressure water spray to remove loose paint, mold, grime, dust, mud, and dirt from surfaces and objects...

underwater diving, open water is unrestricted water such as a sea, lake, river, or flooded quarry. It is a contradistinction to confined water (usually a swimming...

The metre (or meter) sea water (msw) is a metric unit of pressure used in underwater diving. It is defined as one tenth of a bar. The unit used in the...

water, change in wave height. It is caused by the fact that the group velocity, which is also the wave-energy transport velocity, changes with water depth...

distinct layer based on temperature within a large body of fluid (e.g. water, as in an ocean or lake; or air, e.g. an atmosphere) with a high gradient...

cardio-respiratory responses caused by sudden immersion in cold water. In cold water immersions, such as by falling through thin ice, cold shock response...

smoke in air. The measurement of turbidity is a key test of both water clarity and water quality. Fluids can contain suspended solid matter consisting of...

areas of shallow water, they begin to be affected by the ocean bottom. The free orbital motion of the water is disrupted, and water particles in orbital...

wind-generated water wave, is a surface wave that occurs on the free surface of bodies of water as a result of the wind blowing over the water's surface. The...

blackout and shallow water blackout refers to blackouts in shallow water following hyperventilation and ascent blackout and deep water blackout refers to...

a environment of, and immersed in, liquid water in a natural or artificial feature (called a body of water), such as an ocean, sea, lake, pond, reservoir...

are introduced to cold water. Mild bradycardia is caused by subjects holding their breath without submerging the face in water. When breathing with the...

confined water dives (practical training) and open water dives (experience) suitable to allow the diver to dive on open circuit scuba, in open water to a...

Salt water aspiration syndrome is a rare diving disorder suffered by scuba divers who inhale a mist of seawater, usually from a faulty demand valve, causing...

likely to happen when spending extended periods of time near large bodies of water. Risk factors for drowning include alcohol use, drug use, epilepsy, minimal...