Surface supplied commercial diving equipment on display at a trade show
Other names
Dive gear
Uses
Facilitate underwater diving operations
Diving equipment, or underwater diving equipment, is equipment used by underwater divers to make diving activities possible, easier, safer and/or more comfortable. This may be equipment primarily intended for this purpose, or equipment intended for other purposes which is found to be suitable for diving use.
The fundamental item of diving equipment used by divers other than freedivers, is underwater breathing apparatus, such as scuba equipment, and surface-supplied diving equipment, but there are other important items of equipment that make diving safer, more convenient or more efficient. Diving equipment used by recreational scuba divers, also known as scuba gear, is mostly personal equipment carried by the diver, but professional divers, particularly when operating in the surface supplied or saturation mode, use a large amount of support equipment not carried by the diver.
Equipment which is used for underwater work or other activities which is not directly related to the activity of diving, or which has not been designed or modified specifically for underwater use by divers is not considered to be diving equipment.
Divingequipment, or underwater divingequipment, is equipment used by underwater divers to make diving activities possible, easier, safer and/or more...
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...
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and...
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...
Glossary of underwater diving terminology for definitions of technical terms, jargon, diver slang and acronyms used in underwater diving See the Outline of...
pressure diving. Humans are not physiologically and anatomically well-adapted to the environmental conditions of diving, and various equipment has been...
The underwater diving environment, or just diving environment is the natural or artificial surroundings in which a dive is done. It is usually underwater...
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...
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...
Diving hazards are the agents or situations that pose a threat to the underwater diver or their equipment. Divers operate in an environment for which...
Professional diving is underwater diving where the divers are paid for their work. Occupational diving has a similar meaning and applications. The procedures...
risk, and to carry the necessary support equipment for the mode of diving to be used. Recent offshore diving support vessels tend to be dynamically positioned...
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...
deep dive. In professional diving, a depth that requires special equipment, procedures, or advanced training may be considered a deep dive. Deep diving can...
is generally referred to as divingequipment or dive gear along with any other equipment necessary for the dive. Diving suits can be divided into two...
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...
military and public safety roles, but most commercial diving uses surface-supplied divingequipment for the main gas supply when this is practicable. Surface...
Michael; Lippmann, John; Mitchell, Simon (2 July 2015). "Equipment for recreational diving". Diving and Subaquatic Medicine, Fifth Edition (5, illustrated...
Scuba diving fatalities are deaths occurring while scuba diving or as a consequence of scuba diving. The risks of dying during recreational, scientific...
Recreational diving or sport diving is diving for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment, usually when using scuba equipment. The term "recreational diving" may...
specialized equipment will be required to dive at an acceptable level of risk. Most equipment used for hazmat diving is similar to other professional diving equipment...
factors in divingequipment design are the influences of the interactions between the user and equipment in the design of divingequipment and diving support...
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