Scuba Gear – Scuba Equipment

Can anyone direct me to an awesome 2-5 page article about scuba diving?

Yes, I need an article that talks about scuba diving, equipment, who enjoys it, so, basically the whole shammy.

People scuba dive for various reasons:-

It lets biologists and interested people get close to undersea life.
Each dive has something unusual to offer.
It is a different world down there.
It is very educational.
It lets people work underwater easily.
It is a relaxing outdoor activity.
It helps naval research.

Split or non-spit fins for snorkeling and regular swimming, not scuba diving?

Trying to figure out which fins to buy. thank you!

Non-split. I’m on a swim team (CSP) and we use non-split fins during our regular practices. I have also gone snorkeling multiple times, and have always worn non-split fins.

Based on God’s physics, if a scuba diver farts in his own wetsuit, will be become more or less buoyant?

If his wetsuit gets a bubble but the fart doesn’t escape, slightly more buoyant. If the fart escapes, less buoyant. If the fart doesn’t deform the wetsuit in any way, no change.

Navy SEAL scuba diving equipment?

I was watching this thing on Navy SEAL training and when they finished diving with regular equipment they used these things called drakkers or draggers or something insted of regular tanks. I’m just wondering what they actuall are. In the show the instuctor said they weren’t as safe because they could actually let water in them and if you breathed it in it was like swallowing acid. Also they are kind of square and not as long as a regular scuba tank. Hope that information helps you answer my question(Which by the ways if I wasn’t clear was what re they actually called and how are they better or worse?)

Thank you

I think you are talking about a dragger re breather, re breathers preceded open circuit scuba by several years and I believe were used in the second world war, these were oxygen based re breathers and are actually extremely dangerous to use below a depth of about 30ft or six meters oxygen becomes toxic at highish partial pressures 0.6 bar PP is generally the limit set for the use of oxygen as a decompression gas by military and technical divers. modern re breathers are very safe to use with the proper training and experience all diving Equipment is. It is designed for "down stream fail safe" which means if it fails it will fail delivering the breathing gas and "free flowing" all divers are trained to breath from a free flowing gas source. A water leak into a regulator generally is not a serious problem again all divers are trained to "breath past" a small amount of water in the regulator or mouth. should you have a major water leak into a regulator you would simply change to your alternate air source or "octopus rig" or that of one of your dive buddies. with a lot of these "shows" about diving it is quite often said that the breathing gas is oxygen. Oxygen is never used as a breathing gas by divers except in special and exceptional circumstances where it is used as a decompression gas after a very deep dive by military or technical divers. Pure oxygen is never breathed below six meters, a deep dive would be any dive of over 40 meters or about 120ft. an example would be the Lusitania of County Cork in Ireland the wreck lies at a depth of 90msw using special decompression schedules the ascent from this wreck takes about six hours! using open circuit scuba and a last deco stop of two hours at a depth of six meters breathing pure oxygen after a 20 min bottom time. The ascent time would be considerably shorter apparently using semi closed circuit re breathers such as the dragger unit.
Semi closed and closed circuit rebreathers certainly make deep diving easier but as to which is best I think it comes down to personal preferance, I cant see the point in using a rebreather for a 20 minute dive at a depth of 20 meters or sixty feet open circuit scuba is fine for this using compressed air as a breathing gas or posibly nitrox if you want to increase yor bottom time a little.

Should I be Scuba Diving Barbie?

Hello all,

I am going to a fancy dress party in a couple of weeks and I’ve decided to go as Scuba Dive Barbie (don’t ask).

I am planning on wearing a scuba mask, wetsuit, flippers, the works. But I can’t for the life of me find the right wetsuit I want – I’m looking for either short or long leg, sleeveless with a zip down the front – very Bond girl.

Can anyone help or suggest some websites I can get one from?!

Thanks

Try www.swimshop.co.uk
they have what you are looking for I have the catolouge here,
you are going to win best outfit wish i could see end result

What is the world’s record for scuba diving in a liquid other than water?

I seem to remember a story about a couple of daredevils who went scuba diving inside a very large vat of beer at a major brewery, for like 12 minutes or so. The carbonation must have been brutal on the scuba equipment, but I imagine scuba diving in apple juice would be a lot easier. Anyone have any insight about this topic?

Apple juice would be easier, because it wouldn’t eat away at the Scuba Gear as much. 12 minutes is a pretty impressive time to be in a vast body of liquid like beer because the carbonation tends to seep into fabrics, causing deterioration and making your body temperature change. Also, the density of beer is thicker than water, much more so than apple juice would be. Density causes more pressure on your body and lungs, making it harder to be submerged for long periods of time. Your question isn’t exactly clear, but that’s my two cents on the subject.

Scuba diving and Leonardo Da Vinci?

How was designed the wetsuit for scuba diving of Leonardo Da Vinci?

this is basically what I found on it it gives a little detail into it and shows pictures,

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/leonardo/diving.html

hope it helps

Can anyone please list the equipment you need for scuba diving?

Thanks! And if you use a site, listing the site would be nice, too!

Wet suit
Vest
Boots
Flippers
Gloves (optional)
Mask and snorkel
Wrist Dive computer (optional)
The ff. you can rent in a dive shop:
Weights/belt
Air bottle or tank
Pressure gauge
Hope haven’t forgotten something.

Can you wear just a swimsuit while scuba diving?

I am going on a trip to the British Virgin Islands and don’t want to get a wetsuit if i don’t have to. I would rather just dive in my swimsuit. Do I need a wetsuit??

I dive in a swimsuit all the time. If you are diving in the ocean the water is about the same temperature at the surface as it is at one hundred feet. I went down to one hundred feet in Florida in just my swimsuit and I never got cold. Personally I don’t like wetsuits so I never wear one unless it is really cold.

Is there any laws or regulations on catching crawdads in a river with scuba gear?

(Oregon, USA) Looking to catch some on our next camping trip, and get some river diving in at the same time. Please help!

While I do not know Oregon State law, I am willing to bet the answer is yes. You will likely need a fishing license and you may want to contact your state fish and wildlife about hunting crawdads while scuba diving. There are laws that concern harvesting with scuba diving and you may need to find out what they are.