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  • Thumbnail for Buoyancy compensator (diving)
    A buoyancy compensator (BC), also called a buoyancy control device (BCD), stabilizer, stabilisor, stab jacket, wing or adjustable buoyancy life jacket...
    82 KB (11,768 words) - 08:31, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neutral buoyancy
    weighting, and management of the buoyancy compensator is an important skill. A scuba diver maintains neutral buoyancy by continuous correction, usually...
    6 KB (780 words) - 05:15, 4 February 2024
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    tested it at 180 metres (600 ft) depths. Scuba divers commonly wear a buoyancy compensator, which has an inflatable gas chamber. The amount of gas can be increased...
    30 KB (3,814 words) - 10:18, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scuba skills
    during compression to avoid mask squeeze. Others, such as the buoyancy compensator bladder, expand until the over-pressure valve opens. The ears usually...
    116 KB (15,600 words) - 12:42, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scuba diving
    device or buoyancy compensator. A backplate and wing is an alternative configuration of scuba harness with a buoyancy compensation bladder known as a "wing"...
    156 KB (17,194 words) - 16:43, 11 August 2024
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    and breathing apparatus assembly, such as a jacket or wing style buoyancy compensator and instruments mounted in a combined housing with the pressure gauge...
    93 KB (11,382 words) - 14:52, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diving equipment
    inflatable bladder used to adjust the buoyancy of the diver under water, and provide positive buoyancy at the surface. The buoyancy compensator is usually...
    58 KB (6,289 words) - 09:17, 27 July 2024
  • the buoyancy compensator and makes the buoyancy changes with depth more extreme and difficult to correct. A failure of the buoyancy compensator would...
    55 KB (7,502 words) - 14:43, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dry suit
    gas from the suit during ascent to maintain buoyancy control in the same way that a buoyancy compensator must be vented during ascent to avoid an uncontrolled...
    145 KB (17,511 words) - 10:30, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Backplate and wing
    Backplate and wing (category Diver buoyancy control equipment)
    harness and back mounted buoyancy compensator used by scuba divers to support the diving cylinder and buoyancy compensator bladder on the diver's back. It...
    22 KB (3,135 words) - 17:31, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diver trim
    times during a dive the Buoyancy compensator is only partially filled, and the air in it will rise to the highest part of the bladder that it can reach without...
    17 KB (2,513 words) - 16:43, 7 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sidemount diving
    showing the buoyancy compensator. Inside view of Apeks sidemount harness showing weight pocket, the harness webbing and buoyancy compensator. A webbing...
    70 KB (8,172 words) - 15:29, 25 June 2024
  • buoyancy at the end of a dive is usually due to diver error in carrying too much weight or to a major failure of the dry suit or buoyancy compensator...
    68 KB (8,701 words) - 02:13, 31 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Doing It Right (scuba diving)
    excess weight and swim up without a functioning buoyancy compensator. An unnecessarily large bladder volume is considered dangerous as it can contribute...
    101 KB (11,434 words) - 18:29, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Surface marker buoy
    This lanyard can clip to the buoyancy compensator or go around the wrist. If the lanyard clips to the buoyancy compensator, the user should take care to...
    34 KB (4,410 words) - 11:30, 5 July 2024
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    soft harness has integrated over-the-shoulder counterlungs and buoyancy compensator bladder. The harness also carries a moderate sized scrubber canister...
    24 KB (2,291 words) - 01:03, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Index of underwater diving: N–Z
    start the return from a dive Twin bladder buoyancy compensator – Scuba diving buoyancy compensator with redundant air bag Twin-hose regulator – Scuba regulator...
    48 KB (10,292 words) - 08:41, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Index of underwater diving: A–M
    crewed deep-ocean research submersible Dual bladder buoyancy compensator – Scuba diving buoyancy compensator with redundant air bag Duckbill valve – Type...
    68 KB (15,187 words) - 08:52, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Glossary of underwater diving terminology: A–C
    After the buoyancy check it is usual to distribute the weights for safety, trim and convenience. buoyancy compensator An airtight bladder worn by a diver...
    93 KB (9,513 words) - 14:59, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Human factors in diving equipment design
    small divers. The operating skills for most types of single bladder buoyancy compensator are standardised and portable between models. Familiarisation...
    161 KB (19,053 words) - 06:11, 31 May 2024
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