Diving equipment: Difference between revisions

* [[Surface supplied diving]]<ref name="Beyerstein" /> - mostly used in professional diving. This category includes:

** Surface oriented surface supplied diving (Bounce diving), where the diver starts and finishes the dive at normal atmospheric pressure.

** [[Standard diving dress]] - mostly used in [[professional diving]]. Mainly of historical interest now.

** [[Surface supplied diving#Air line|Airline]] or Hookah diving.

 

==Personal diving equipment==

This is the diving equipment worn by or carried by the diver for personal protection or comfort, or to facilitate the diving aspect of the activity, and may include a selection from:

 

 

===Safety equipment===

{{see also|Diving safety}} Diving safety equipment in the broader sense would include all equipment that could make a dive safer, by reducing a hazard, reducing the probability of an adverse event, or mitigating its effects. This would include basic equipment such as primary breathing apparatus, exposure protection, buoyancy management equipment and mobility equipment. The more specific meaning is equipment primarily and explicitly used to improve safety of a dive or diving operation. Equipment intended to improve safety in the second sense includes:

* [[Diver's safety harness]], to which a lifeline may be attached, including bell harness, AR vest, or jump jacket.<ref name="Barsky and Christensen 2004" />

<ref name="DEMA staff" >{{cite web | url=http://www.dema.org/staff/ | title=Board, Committees & Staff Members - the Diving Equipment & Marketing Association }}</ref>

 

 

 

<ref name="DIN 7878a" >Deutsches Institut für Normung: DIN 7878: ''Tauch-Zubehör. Tauchbrillen. Sicherheitstechnische Anforderungen und Prüfung. Diving accessories for skin divers. Diver’s masks. Requirements and testing'', Berlin/Cologne: Beuth Verlag, 1980.</ref>