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  2. Variable-buoyancy pressure vessel - Wikipedia

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    A variable-buoyancy pressure vessel system is a type of rigid buoyancy control device for diving systems that retains a constant volume and varies its density by changing the weight (mass) of the contents, either by moving the ambient fluid into and out of a rigid pressure vessel, or by moving a stored liquid between internal and external variable-volume containers.

  3. Diving cylinder - Wikipedia

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    Ambient pressure (P A) is the surrounding water pressure at a given depth and is made up of the sum of the hydrostatic pressure and the air pressure at the surface. It is calculated as (2) P A = D×g×ρ + atmospheric pressure [81] with D = depth g = Standard gravity ρ = water density. in a consistent system of units

  4. Pendulum-and-hydrostat control - Wikipedia

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    It was mainly used to control the depth of torpedoes until the end of the Second World War, and it reduced depth errors from ±40 feet (12 meters) to as little as ±6 inches (0.15 m). The pendulum and hydrostat control was invented by Robert Whitehead. It was an important advance in torpedo technology, and it was nicknamed "The Secret".

  5. Drainage equation - Wikipedia

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    the permissible long term average depth of the water table (Dw) on the basis of agricultural drainage criteria; the soil's hydraulic conductivity (Ka and Kb) by measurements; the depth of the bottom of the aquifer (Di) the design drain spacing (L) can be found from the equation in dependence of the drain depth (Dd) and drain radius (r ...

  6. Saturation diving - Wikipedia

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    A gas booster, to boost the pressure of the reclaimed gas to the storage pressure. A gas volume tank; A storage system of pressure vessels to hold the boosted and reconstituted gas mixture until it is used. This functions as a buffer to allow for the variations of gas volume in the rest of the system due to pressure changes. Dive control panel

  7. Fractional crystallization (geology) - Wikipedia

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    In some compositions, at high pressures without water crystallization of enstatite is favored, but in the presence of water at high pressures, olivine is favored. [12] Granitic magmas provide additional examples of how melts of generally similar composition and temperature, but at different pressure, may crystallize different minerals.

  8. Under keel clearance - Wikipedia

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    UKC = Charted Depth − Draft-/+ Height of Tide. Ship masters and deck officers can obtain the depth of water from Electronic navigational charts. [5] More dynamic or advanced calculations include safety margins for manoeuvring effects and squat. [7] Computer systems and software can be used to manage and calculate UKC for ships and ports.

  9. Decompression (diving) - Wikipedia

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    Divers decompressing in the water at the end of a dive Basic deck decompression chamber. The decompression of a diver is the reduction in ambient pressure experienced during ascent from depth. It is also the process of elimination of dissolved inert gases from the diver's body which accumulate during ascent, largely during pauses in the ascent ...