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    significant diving-related illnesses, decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism. Diving medicine deals with medical research on issues of diving, the...
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    diver may dive on breath-hold (freediving) or use breathing apparatus for scuba diving or surface-supplied diving, and the saturation diving technique...
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    Supervisor of Diving (April 2008). "Chapter 21: Recompression Chamber Operation" (PDF). U.S. Navy Diving Manual. Volume 5: Diving Medicine and Recompression...
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    and medicine of diving (5th Rev ed.). United States: Saunders Ltd. p. 800. ISBN 978-0-7020-2571-6. C., Acott (1999). "A brief history of diving and decompression...
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    for diving-related applications such as saturation diving and diver decompression, and non-diving medical applications such as hyperbaric medicine. Also...
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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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    underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...
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    Glossary of underwater diving terminology for definitions of technical terms, jargon, diver slang and acronyms used in underwater diving See the Outline of...
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    The diving reflex, also known as the diving response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the...
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    underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...
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    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...
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  • Pioneering diving engineer and inventor of a surface supplied diving helmet (1796-1848) John Deane (inventor) – Joint inventor of the diving helmet (1800-1884)...
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  • Cave diving – Diving in water-filled caves Freediving blackout – Loss of consciousness caused by cerebral hypoxia towards the end of a breath-hold dive Diver...
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    is provided as an overview of and topical guide to underwater diving: Underwater diving – as a human activity, is the practice of descending below the...
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    doctor proficient in diving medicine, and can not be done by prescriptive rules. Psychological factors can affect fitness to dive, particularly where they...
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    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...
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  • The South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) is a primary source of information for diving and hyperbaric medicine physiology worldwide. The SPUMS...
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    Diving bells are usually suspended by a cable, and lifted and lowered by a winch from a surface support platform. Unlike a submersible, the diving bell...
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    Surface-supplied diving equipment (SSDE) is the equipment required for surface-supplied diving. The essential aspect of surface-supplied diving is that breathing...
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  • Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine is a journal about hyperbaric medicine published by the European Underwater Medicine Society (EUBS) and the South Pacific...
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    Procedures for Flying After Diving, and Diving at Altitudes above Sea Level". US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine Technical Report. SAM-TR-82-47...
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  • Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions...
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    underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...
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    Diving medicine (or hyperbaric medicine) is the prevention and treatment of diving-related problems. Evolutionary medicine is a perspective on medicine derived...
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  • for Air Diving to 50 msw in Commercial Diver Training (March 2013) Deep Saturation Diving (April 2013) Education and Training in Diving Medicine (November...
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    A diving suit is a garment or device designed to protect a diver from the underwater environment. A diving suit may also incorporate a breathing gas supply...
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    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...
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    technical diving part 2: decompression from deep technical dives". Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. 43 (2): 96–104. PMID 23813463. "How to Switch Your Diving Gas...
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    Diving disorders are medical conditions specifically arising from underwater diving. The signs and symptoms of these may present during a dive, on surfacing...
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  • Wadham, in June 1963. Hyperbaric medicine – Medical treatment at raised ambient pressure Saturation diving – Diving decompression technique Gray, Keith...
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