diving chambers, differentiated by the way in which the pressure in the diving chamber is produced and controlled. The historically older open diving...

Surface-supplied diving equipment (SSDE) is the equipment required for surface-supplied diving. The essential aspect of surface-supplied diving is that breathing...

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...

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...

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...

to the actual diving, being there to make the dive easier or safer, such as a surface decompression chamber. Some equipment, like a diving stage, is not...

resting in chamber 2 at a pressure of 9 atmospheres (atm). The diving bell with Bergersen and Hellevik had just been winched up after a dive and joined...

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...

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...

Glossary of underwater diving terminology for definitions of technical terms, jargon, diver slang and acronyms used in underwater diving See the Outline of...

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...

determine fitness to dive. Hyperbaric medicine is a corollary field associated with diving, since recompression in a hyperbaric chamber is used as a treatment...

the London Diving Chamber Annual Dive Lectures has attracted well-known figures from the diving world and celebrities interested in diving to speak to...

Muck diving – Recreational diving on a loose sedimentary bottom Quarry dive sites – Disused and flooded quarry repurposed for underwater diving Rocky...

Professional diving is underwater diving where the divers are paid for their work. Occupational diving has a similar meaning and applications. The procedures...

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

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...

A diving regulator or underwater diving regulator is a pressure regulator that controls the pressure of breathing gas for underwater diving. The most...

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...

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

Commercial offshore diving, sometimes shortened to just offshore diving, generally refers to the branch of commercial diving, with divers working in support...

In cave diving, a Torricellian chamber is a cave chamber with an airspace above the water at less than atmospheric pressure. This is formed when the water...

Navy Diving Manual indicates that ascent rates greater than about 20 m/min (66 ft/min) when diving increase the chance of DCS, while recreational dive tables...

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

Cave-diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves. It may be done as an extreme sport, a way of exploring flooded caves for scientific investigation...

The 1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident was a scuba diving incident on 28 May 1973 at a flooded sinkhole known as "The Shaft" near Mount Gambier in...

a living chamber, transfer chamber and submersible decompression chamber, which is commonly referred to in commercial diving as the diving bell and in...

occupation. ama (海女) – a sea-diving fisherwoman ama (海士) – a sea-diving fisherman ama (海人), kaijin (海人) – a sea-diving fisherperson of either gender...