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 gases...
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breathing gas at the ambient pressure. Scuba is an anacronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Although strictly speaking the scuba set is...
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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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Surface-supplied diving equipment (redirect from Surface-supplied mixed gas)
breathing gas in an emergency. Thus, the surface-supplied diver is less likely to have an "out-of-air" emergency than a scuba diver using a single gas supply...
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Underwater diving emergency (redirect from Out-of-gas emergency)
managed. A similar emergency occurs when a scuba diver accumulates more decompression obligation than the available gas endurance for decompression. This can...
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scientific or commercial diving are small, and on scuba, deaths are usually associated with poor gas management, poor buoyancy control, equipment misuse...
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Gas blending for scuba diving (or gas mixing) is the filling of diving cylinders with non-air breathing gases such as nitrox, trimix and heliox. Use of...
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the surface, or the breathing gas is reclaimed, processed and re-used. Scuba gas planning is the aspect of dive planning which deals with the calculation...
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Rule of thirds (diving) (category Dive planning)
is planned, the "rock bottom" gas planning procedure is more versatile but more complex to calculate. Other rules of thumb for scuba gas planning exist...
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by a bubble of gas. gas extender Carbon dioxide scrubber used to allow partial recirculation of surface-supplied or scuba breathing gas to reduce waste...
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Gas mixture occasionally used by scuba divers for dry-suit inflation Heliox – A breathing gas mixed from helium and oxygen Hydreliox – Breathing gas mixture...
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Be, Bi, Bo, Bu back gas Breathing gas carried by a scuba diver in back mounted cylinders. Generally the primary breathing gas for the bottom or longest...
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Surface-supplied diving (redirect from Scuba replacement)
diving are lower risk of drowning and considerably larger breathing gas supply than scuba, allowing longer working periods and safer decompression. Disadvantages...
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it from the gas passed through the canister. scuba SCUBA Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. May be open or closed circuit. scuba orienteering...
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Scuba Schools International (SSI) is a for-profit organization that teaches the skills involved in scuba diving and freediving, and supports dive businesses...
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when scuba diving Gas panel – Breathing gas distribution panel for surface-supplied diving Gas reclaim system – System to recover used breathing gas and...
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Manual – Training and operations manual Rock bottom gas planning – Scuba gas planning based on a planned dive profile Rocky reef – Natural reef of rock Röjdykare –...
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liquids under gravity, though the term scuba tank is commonly used to refer to a cylinder used for breathing gas supply to an underwater breathing apparatus...
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Diving rebreather (redirect from Closed circuit scuba)
self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba). A semi-closed rebreather carried by the diver may also be known as a gas extender. The same technology on a...
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Diving regulator (redirect from Mouthpiece (scuba))
use. Regulators may be used in scuba rebreathers to make up a deficit in loop gas volume, and to provide oxygen-rich gas to compensate for metabolic use...
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breathing gas. Other mixtures of gases, or pure oxygen, are also used in breathing equipment and enclosed habitats such as scuba equipment, surface supplied...
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089 ft) is the world record depth on scuba (2014). Commercial divers using saturation techniques and heliox breathing gases routinely exceed 100 metres (330 ft)...
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On Saturday, 5 November 1983, at 4:00 a.m., while drilling in the Frigg gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, four divers were in a diving...
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described by John Scott Haldane. half+200 half+15 An alternative scuba reserve gas management strategy to the rule of thirds for breathing stage cylinders...
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as their capsule parachuted down some 35 kilometres (22 mi) from the planned touchdown site due to a procedural delay. In July 2015, NASA announced...
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Diving cylinder (redirect from Scuba tank)
gas cylinder is a gas cylinder used to store and transport high pressure gas used in diving operations. This may be breathing gas used with a scuba set...
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Technical diving (redirect from Technical scuba diving)
Technical diving (also referred to as tec diving or tech diving) is scuba diving that exceeds the agency-specified limits of recreational diving for non-professional...
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Diver down flag (redirect from Scuba flag)
A diver down flag, or scuba flag, is a flag used on the water to indicate that there is a diver below. Two styles of flag are in use. Internationally...
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application to obtain planning permission for a wind turbine in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and gave evidence at the planning inquiry arguing in...
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Breathing gas – Gas used for human respiration Argox – Gas mixture occasionally used by scuba divers for dry-suit inflation Heliox – A breathing gas mixed...
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