A scuba set, originally just scuba, is any breathing apparatus that is entirely carried by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas...
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Look up scuba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Scuba, originally SCUBA, often expanded to scuba set, is any self contained underwater breathing apparatus...
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Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and...
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Diving cylinder (redirect from Scuba tank)
may be breathing gas used with a scuba set, in which case the cylinder may also be referred to as a scuba cylinder, scuba tank or diving tank. When used...
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Alternative air source (redirect from Manifolded twin scuba set)
carried by a scuba diver in addition to the primary scuba set, or by a surface supplied diver using either free-flow or demand systems. Scuba divers may...
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Self-contained breathing apparatus (redirect from Industrial breathing set)
firefighting. If designed for use under water, it is also known as a scuba set (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus). An open circuit SCBA...
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Sport diving (sport) (redirect from Sport Diving (competitive scuba))
underwater sport that uses recreational open circuit scuba diving equipment and consists of a set of individual and team events conducted in a swimming...
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The Avelo diving system is a single cylinder, back-mounted scuba set with variable density buoyancy control. The gas cylinder is a carbon fibre over aluminium...
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The history of scuba diving is closely linked with the history of diving equipment. By the turn of the twentieth century, two basic architectures for...
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however, insist on one last meet despite his damaged lungs, and managed to set a new world record despite the pain. Karapetyan's achievement was not immediately...
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Bailout bottle (redirect from Bailout set)
supply failure. A bailout cylinder may be carried by a scuba diver in addition to the primary scuba set, or by a surface supplied diver using either free-flow...
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Vintage scuba is scuba equipment dating from 1975 and earlier, and the practice of diving using such equipment. The most striking and well recognized example...
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Scuba skills are skills required to dive safely using self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, known as a scuba set. Most of these skills are relevant...
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Porpoise is a tradename for scuba developed by Ted Eldred in Australia and made there from the late 1940s onwards. The first Porpoise was a closed circuit...
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Diving weighting system (redirect from Optimum scuba weighting)
diving suits and aluminium diving cylinders, and buoyancy of the diver. The scuba diver must be weighted sufficiently to be slightly negatively buoyant at...
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A scuba manifold is a device incorporating one or more valves and one or more gas outlets with scuba regulator connections, used to connect two or more...
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Breathing apparatus (redirect from Breathing set)
given unit is a member of several types. The well-known recreational scuba set is a self-contained, open circuit, demand supplied, high pressure stored...
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Finswimming (redirect from Scuba finswimming)
underwater with monofin either by holding one's breath or using open circuit scuba diving equipment. Events exist over distances similar to swimming competitions...
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Recreational diving (redirect from Recreational scuba diving)
is diving for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment, usually when using scuba equipment. The term "recreational diving" may also be used in contradistinction...
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Scuba diving therapy is a type of treatment that consists of a variety of scuba diving activities and exercises. Essential elements are increased body...
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Scuba gas planning is the aspect of dive planning and of gas management which deals with the calculation or estimation of the amounts and mixtures of...
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categories of ambient pressure underwater breathing apparatus are: Open circuit scuba, where the diver carries the gas supply, and exhaled gas is exhausted to...
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Deep diving (redirect from Scuba depth record attempts)
marca mundial de profundidad con escafandra autonoma" [Spain sets world record for scuba diving depths]. La Vanguardia Espanola (in Spanish). p. 20. Archived...
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equipment Rolling stock Scientific instruments Scribe equipment (hieroglyph) Scuba set Self-propelled passenger equipment Sports equipment Climbing equipment...
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Scuba Diving International (SDI) is a Scuba training and certification agency. It is the recreational arm of Technical Diving International, a technical...
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Scuba diving tourism is the industry based on servicing the requirements of recreational divers at destinations other than where they live. It includes...
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made sport diving breathing sets accessibly inexpensive. Submarine Products Ltd were the first company to make scuba sets readily available to the public...
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Scuba gas management is the aspect of scuba diving which includes the gas planning, blending, filling, analysing, marking, storage, and transportation...
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first open-circuit, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (or "scuba") to achieve worldwide popularity and commercial success. This class of...
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Johnson Outdoors (redirect from Healthways (scuba gear company))
use "scuba" as a word rather than an acronym. Their twin-hose regulator line was called the "Scuba"; hence, one of their later models, the Scuba Pro,...
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