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This is a glossary of technical terms, jargon, diver slang and acronyms used in underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be described as a human activity – intentional, purposive, conscious and subjectively meaningful sequence of ...
Surface-supplied diving where the breathing air is supplied to the diver by a simple hose. The diver usually breathes through a mouth held demand valve. air top air top-up. see: Gas blending for scuba diving#Air top-up. 1. Completing a planned breathing gas mix by topping up the cylinder with compressed air to a calculated pressure. [12] 2.
Luckily, you don’t have to hold on for long; the roughly 50 dive sites are close by, spread across nine unimaginatively-titled reefs (their names denote their distance from Jesser Point ie Two ...
See: Underwater diving#Diving environment. Recreational scuba diving along the face of a near vertical cliff wall, particularly if the bottom is below the range of the diver's equipment and certification. This requires good buoyancy control. [44] water capacity. See: Gas cylinder. Of a cylinder: The internal volume.
2. Scuba and surface-supplied diving: Loss of consciousness in deep air diving at depths below 50 m with no clear primary cause, associated with nitrogen narcosis, a neurological impairment with anaesthetic effects caused by high partial pressure of nitrogen dissolved in nerve tissue, and possibly acute oxygen toxicity. The term is not in ...
A frogman is someone who is trained in scuba diving or swimming underwater in a tactical capacity that includes military, and in some European countries, police work. Such personnel are also known by the more formal names of combat diver, combatant diver, or combat swimmer.
See: Doing It Right (scuba diving), and Human factors in diving equipment design#Hose routing. A scuba configuration where the primary demand valve has a long hose which is routed under the right arm, usually tucked under a light battery canister on the waist belt of the harness, and around behind the neck to reach the mouth from the right hand ...
NBA nicknames have taken on lives of their own over recent decades. Historically very good, the current generation has been known to crank out some terrible monikers for hoops stars.