• Skandalopetra diving (Greek: σκανταλόπετρα) dates from ancient Greece, when it was used by sponge fishermen, and has been re-discovered in recent years...
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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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    Haenyeo – Female occupational divers in the Korean province of Jeju Skandalopetra diving – Freediving using a stone weight at the end of a rope to the surface...
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    The underwater diving environment, or just diving environment is the natural or artificial surroundings in which a dive is done. It is usually underwater...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Sea, four divers were in a diving chamber system on the rig's deck that was connected by a trunk (a short passage) to a diving bell. The divers were Edwin...
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  • following underwater diving techniques - breath-hold, snorkelling or scuba, usually including the use of equipment such as diving masks and fins. These...
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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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    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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    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 is a mode of underwater diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas through a diver's umbilical from the surface, either...
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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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    Freediving (redirect from Free diving)
    Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing...
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    Standard diving dress, also known as hard-hat or copper hat equipment, deep sea diving suit or heavy gear, is a type of diving suit that was formerly...
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    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...
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    Sponge diving is underwater diving to collect soft natural sponges for human use. Most sponges are too rough for general use due to their structural spicules...
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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 support equipment is the equipment used to facilitate a diving operation. It is either not taken into the water during the dive, such as the gas...
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    atmospheric pressure are provided for diving-related applications such as saturation diving and diver decompression, and non-diving medical applications such as...
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    Commercial diving may be considered an application of professional diving where the diver engages in underwater work for industrial, construction, engineering...
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    but it might be reasonable to include them as atmospheric diving suits. An atmospheric diving suit may be classified as a manned submersible and a self-propelled...
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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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    A diving helmet is a rigid head enclosure with a breathing gas supply used in underwater diving. They are worn mainly by professional divers engaged in...
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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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    Shark cage diving is underwater diving or snorkeling where the observer remains inside a protective cage designed to prevent sharks from making contact...
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    developer team members hail from Sydney's cave-diving fraternity including Allum himself with many years of cave-diving experience.[citation needed] Working in...
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    Professional diving is underwater diving where the divers are paid for their work. Occupational diving has a similar meaning and applications. The procedures...
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