Turbidity - Wikipedia

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Turbidity standards of 5, 50, and 500 NTU
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Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air. The measurement of turbidity is a key test of both water clarity and water quality.

Fluids can contain suspended solid matter consisting of particles of many different sizes. While some suspended material will be large enough and heavy enough to settle rapidly to the bottom of the container if a liquid sample is left to stand (the settable solids), very small particles will settle only very slowly or not at all if the sample is regularly agitated or the particles are colloidal. These small solid particles cause the liquid to appear turbid.

Turbidity (or haze) is also applied to transparent solids such as glass or plastic. In plastic production, haze is defined as the percentage of light that is deflected more than 2.5° from the incoming light direction.[1]

Causes and effects

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Turbidity in open water may be caused by growth of phytoplankton. Human activities that disturb land, such as construction, mining and agriculture, can lead to high sediment levels entering water bodies during rain storms due to storm water runoff. Areas prone to high bank erosion rates as well as urbanized areas also contribute large amounts of turbidity to nearby waters, through stormwater pollution from paved surfaces such as roads, bridges, parking lots and airports.[2] Some industries such as quarrying, mining, and coal recovery can generate very high levels of turbidity from colloidal rock particles.

In drinking water, the higher the turbidity level, the higher the risk that people may develop gastrointestinal diseases.[3] This is especially problematic for immunocompromised people, because contaminants like viruses or bacteria can become attached to the suspended solids. The suspended solids interfere with water disinfection with chlorine[4] because the particles act as shields for viruses and bacteria. Similarly, suspended solids can protect bacteria from ultraviolet (UV) sterilization of water.[5]

In water bodies such as lakes, rivers and reservoirs, high turbidity levels can reduce the amount of light reaching lower depths, which can inhibit growth of submerged aquatic plants and consequently affect species which are dependent on them, such as fish and shellfish. High turbidity levels can also affect the ability of fish gills to absorb dissolved oxygen. This phenomenon has been regularly observed throughout the Chesapeake Bay in the eastern United States.[6][7]

For many mangrove areas, high turbidity is needed in order to support certain species, such as to protect juvenile fish from predators. For most mangroves along the eastern coast of Australia, in particular Moreton Bay, turbidity levels as high as 600 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU) are needed for proper ecosystem health.[citation needed]

Measurement

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Turbid creek water caused by heavy rains

The measurement of turbidity is a key test of both water clarity and water quality.[citation needed] There are two standard units for reporting turbidity: Formazin Nephelometric Units (FNU) from ISO 7027 and Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU) from USEPA Method 180.1. ISO 7027 and FNU is mostly widely used in Europe, whereas NTU is mostly widely used in the U.S. ISO 7027 provides the method in water quality for the determination of turbidity. It is used to determine the concentration of suspended particles in a sample of water by measuring the incident light scattered at right angles from the sample. The scattered light is captured by a photodiode, which produces an electronic signal that is converted to a turbidity. Open source hardware has been developed following the ISO 7027 method to measure turbidity reliably using an Arduino microcontroller and inexpensive LEDs.[8]

There are several practical ways of checking water quality, the most direct being some measure of attenuation (that is, reduction in strength) of light as it passes through a sample column of water.[9] The alternatively used Jackson Candle method (units: Jackson Turbidity Unit or JTU) is essentially the inverse measure of the length of a column of water needed to completely obscure a candle flame viewed through it. The more water needed (the longer the water column), the clearer the water. Of course water alone produces some attenuation, and any substances dissolved in the water that produce color can attenuate some wavelengths. Modern instruments do not use candles, but this approach of attenuation of a light beam through a column of water should be calibrated and reported in JTUs.[9]

The propensity of particles to scatter a light beam focused on them is now considered a more meaningful measure of turbidity in water. Turbidity measured this way uses an instrument called a nephelometer with the detector set up to the side of the light beam. More light reaches the detector if there are many small particles scattering the source beam than if there are few. The units of turbidity from a calibrated nephelometer can be either NTU or FTU, depending on the standard method used. To some extent, how much light reflects for a given amount of particulates is dependent upon properties of the particles like their shape, color, and reflectivity. For this reason (and the reason that heavier particles settle quickly and do not contribute to a turbidity reading), a correlation between turbidity and total suspended solids (TSS) is somewhat unusual for each location or situation.[9]

Turbidity in lakes, reservoirs, channels, and the ocean can be measured using a Secchi disk. This black and white disk is lowered into the water until it can no longer be seen; the depth (Secchi depth) is then recorded as a measure of the transparency of the water (inversely related to turbidity). The Secchi disk has the advantages of integrating turbidity over depth (where variable turbidity layers are present), being quick and easy to use, and inexpensive. It can provide a rough indication of the depth of the euphotic zone with a 3-fold division of the Secchi depth, however this cannot be used in shallow waters where the disk can still be seen on the bottom.[10]

Cameras and computer vision have also been used to measured turbidity.[11] Such monitoring can make use of machine learning to identify problems in sewage.[12]

An additional device, which may help measuring turbidity in shallow waters is the turbidity tube.[13][10] The turbidity tube condenses water in a graded tube which allows determination of turbidity based on a contrast disk in its bottom, being analogous to the Secchi disk.

Turbidity in air, which causes solar attenuation, is used as a measure of pollution. To model the attenuation of beam irradiance, several turbidity parameters have been introduced, including the Linke turbidity factor (TL).[14][15]

Standards and test methods

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Turbidimeters used at a water purification plant to measure turbidity (in NTU) of raw water and clear water after filtration.

Drinking water standards

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Governments have set standards on the allowable turbidity in drinking water. In the United States, public water systems that use conventional or direct filtration methods must not have a turbidity higher than 1.0 NTU at the plant outlet and all samples for turbidity must be less than or equal to 0.3 NTU for at least 95 percent of the samples in any month. Systems that use filtration other than the conventional or direct filtration must follow state limits, which must include turbidity at no time exceeding 5 NTU. Many drinking water utilities strive to achieve levels as low as 0.1 NTU.[16] The European turbidity standard is 4 NTU.[17]

Ambient water standards

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United States

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published water quality criteria for turbidity.[18] These criteria are scientific assessments of the effects of turbidity, which are used by states to develop water quality standards for water bodies. (States may also publish their own criteria.) Some states have promulgated water quality standards for turbidity, including:

  • Louisiana: 25, 50 or 150 NTU, or background plus 10 percent, depending on the water body.[19]
  • Vermont: 10 NTU or 25 NTU, depending on water body classification.[20]
  • Washington: 5 NTU over background (when background is 50 NTU or less), or 10 percent increase when background is over 50 NTU.[21]

Analytical methods

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Published analytical test methods for turbidity include:

  • ISO 7027 "Water Quality: Determination of Turbidity"[22]
  • US EPA Method No. 180.1, "Turbidity"[23]
  • "Standard Methods", No. 2130B.[24]

Treatment

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Turbidity is commonly treated using a settling or filtration process, or both settling and filtration. Depending on the application, flocculants may be dosed into the water stream to increase the effectiveness of the settling or filtration process.[25][26] Potable water treatment and municipal wastewater plants often remove turbidity with a combination of settling tanks, granular media filtration, and clarifiers.

In-situ water treatment or direct dosing for the treatment of turbidity is common when the affected water bodies are dispersed (i.e. there are numerous water bodies spread out over a geographical area, such as small drinking water reservoirs), when the problem is not consistent (i.e. when there is turbidity in a water body only during and after the wet season) or when a low cost solution is required. In-situ treatment of turbidity involves the addition of a reagent, generally a flocculant, evenly dispensed over the surface of the body of water. The flocs then settle at the bottom of the water body where they remain or are removed when the water body is drained. This method is commonly used at coal mines and coal loading facilities where stormwater collection ponds have seasonal issues with turbidity. A number of companies offer portable treatment systems for in-situ water treatment or direct dosing of reagents.

Reagents

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There are a number of chemical reagents that are available for treating turbidity, including aluminium sulfate or alum (Al2(SO4)3·nH2O), ferric chloride (FeCl3), gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O), poly-aluminum chloride, long chain acrylamide-based polymers and numerous proprietary reagents.[27] The water chemistry must be carefully considered when chemical dosing as some reagents, such as alum, will alter the pH of the water.

The dosing process must also be considered when using reagents as the flocs may be broken apart by excessive mixing.

See also

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  • McFarland standards – Scale for turbidity measurement - reference for microbiological analysis
  • Ocean optics
  • Transparency and translucency – Property of an object or substance to transmit light with minimal scattering

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    • Dive reel
    • Line marker
    • Surface marker buoy
    • Silt screw
Underwaterbreathingapparatus
  • Atmospheric diving suit
  • Diving cylinder
    • Burst disc
    • Scuba cylinder valve
  • Diving helmet
    • Reclaim helmet
  • Diving regulator
    • Mechanism of diving regulators
    • Regulator malfunction
      • Regulator freeze
    • Single-hose regulator
    • Twin-hose regulator
  • Full-face diving mask
Open-circuitscuba
  • Scuba set
    • Bailout bottle
    • Decompression cylinder
    • Independent doubles
    • Manifolded twin set
      • Scuba manifold
    • Pony bottle
    • Scuba configuration
    • Sidemount
    • Sling cylinder
Diving rebreathers
  • Carbon dioxide scrubber
  • Carleton CDBA
  • Clearance Divers Life Support Equipment
  • Cryogenic rebreather
  • CUMA
  • DSEA
  • Dolphin
  • Halcyon PVR-BASC
  • Halcyon RB80
  • IDA71
  • Interspiro DCSC
  • LAR-5
  • LAR-6
  • LAR-V
  • LARU
  • Mark IV Amphibian
  • Porpoise
  • Ray
  • Siebe Gorman CDBA
  • Salvus
  • Siva
Surface-supplieddiving equipment
  • Air line
  • Diver's umbilical
  • Diving air compressor
  • Gas panel
  • Hookah
  • Scuba replacement
  • Snuba
  • Standard diving dress
Divingequipmentmanufacturers
  • AP Diving
  • Apeks
  • Aqua Lung America
  • Aqua Lung/La Spirotechnique
  • Beuchat
  • René Cavalero
  • Cis-Lunar
  • Cressi-Sub
  • Dacor
  • DESCO
  • Dive Xtras
  • Divex
  • Diving Unlimited International
  • Drägerwerk
  • Faber
  • Fenzy
  • Maurice Fernez
  • Technisub
  • Oscar Gugen
  • Heinke
  • HeinrichsWeikamp
  • Johnson Outdoors
  • Mares
  • Morse Diving
  • Nemrod
  • Oceanic Worldwide
  • Porpoise
  • Shearwater Research
  • Siebe Gorman
  • Submarine Products
  • Suunto
Diving support equipment
Access equipment
  • Boarding stirrup
  • Diver lift
  • Diving bell
  • Diving ladder
  • Diving platform (scuba)
  • Diving stage
  • Downline
  • Jackstay
  • Launch and recovery system
  • Messenger line
  • Moon pool
Breathing gashandling
  • Air filtration
    • Activated carbon
    • Hopcalite
    • Molecular sieve
    • Silica gel
  • Booster pump
  • Carbon dioxide scrubber
  • Cascade filling system
  • Diver's pump
  • Diving air compressor
    • Diving air filter
    • Water separator
    • High pressure breathing air compressor
    • Low pressure breathing air compressor
  • Gas blending
    • Gas blending for scuba diving
  • Gas panel
  • Gas reclaim system
  • Gas storage bank
    • Gas storage quad
    • Gas storage tube
  • Helium analyzer
  • Nitrox production
    • Membrane gas separation
    • Pressure swing adsorption
  • Oxygen analyser
    • Electro-galvanic oxygen sensor
  • Oxygen compatibility
Decompressionequipment
  • Air-lock
  • Built-in breathing system
  • Decompression tables
  • Diving bell
    • Bell cursor
    • Closed bell
    • Clump weight
    • Launch and recovery system
    • Wet bell
  • Diving chamber
  • Diving stage
  • Recreational Dive Planner
  • Saturation diving system
Platforms
  • Dive boat
    • Canoe and kayak diving
    • Combat rubber raiding craft
    • Liveaboard
    • Subskimmer
  • Diving support vessel
    • HMS Challenger (K07)
Underwaterhabitat
  • Aquarius Reef Base
  • Continental Shelf Station Two
  • Helgoland Habitat
  • Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station
  • SEALAB
  • Tektite habitat
Remotely operatedunderwater vehicles
  • 8A4-class ROUV
  • ABISMO
  • Atlantis ROV Team
  • COTSBot
  • CURV
  • Deep Drone
  • Épaulard
  • Global Explorer ROV
  • Goldfish-class ROUV
  • Kaikō ROV
  • Kaşif ROUV
  • Long-Term Mine Reconnaissance System
  • Mini Rover ROV
  • OpenROV
  • ROV KIEL 6000
  • ROV PHOCA
  • Scorpio ROV
  • Sea Dragon-class ROV
  • Seabed tractor
  • Seafox drone
  • SeaPerch
  • SJT-class ROUV
  • T1200 Trenching Unit
  • VideoRay UROVs
Safety equipment
  • Diver down flag
  • Diving shot
  • ENOS Rescue-System
  • Hyperbaric lifeboat
  • Hyperbaric stretcher
  • Jackstay
  • Jonline
  • Reserve gas supply
General
  • Diving spread
    • Air spread
    • Saturation spread
  • Hot water system
  • Sonar
    • Underwater acoustic positioning system
    • Underwater acoustic communication
Freediving
Activities
  • Aquathlon
  • Apnoea finswimming
  • Freediving
  • Haenyeo
  • Pearl hunting
    • Ama
  • Snorkeling
  • Spearfishing
  • Underwater football
  • Underwater hockey
  • Underwater rugby
  • Underwater target shooting
Competitions
  • Nordic Deep
  • Vertical Blue
  • Disciplines
    • Constant weight (CWT)
    • Constant weight bi-fins (CWTB)
    • Constant weight without fins (CNF)
    • Dynamic apnea (DYN)
    • Dynamic apnea without fins (DNF)
    • Free immersion (FIM)
    • No-limits apnea (NLT)
    • Static apnea (STA)
    • Skandalopetra diving
    • Variable weight apnea (VWT)
    • Variable weight apnea without fins
Equipment
  • Diving mask
  • Diving suit
  • Hawaiian sling
  • Polespear
  • Snorkel (swimming)
  • Speargun
  • Swimfins
    • Monofin
  • Water polo cap
Freedivers
  • Deborah Andollo
  • Simone Arrigoni
  • Peppo Biscarini
  • Michael Board
  • Sara Campbell
  • Derya Can Göçen
  • Goran Čolak
  • Carlos Coste
  • Robert Croft
  • Mandy-Rae Cruickshank
  • Yasemin Dalkılıç
  • Leonardo D'Imporzano
  • Flavia Eberhard
  • Şahika Ercümen
  • Emma Farrell
  • Francisco Ferreras
  • Pierre Frolla
  • Flavia Eberhard
  • Mehgan Heaney-Grier
  • Elisabeth Kristoffersen
  • Andriy Yevhenovych Khvetkevych
  • Loïc Leferme
  • Enzo Maiorca
  • Jacques Mayol
  • Audrey Mestre
  • Karol Meyer
  • Kate Middleton
  • Stéphane Mifsud
  • Alexey Molchanov
  • Natalia Molchanova
  • Dave Mullins
  • Patrick Musimu
  • Guillaume Néry
  • Herbert Nitsch
  • Umberto Pelizzari
  • Liv Philip
  • Annelie Pompe
  • Stig Severinsen
  • Tom Sietas
  • Martin Štěpánek
  • Walter Steyn
  • Tanya Streeter
  • William Trubridge
  • Devrim Cenk Ulusoy
  • Fatma Uruk
  • Danai Varveri
  • Alessia Zecchini
  • Nataliia Zharkova
  • Kateryna Sadurska
Hazards
  • Barotrauma
  • Drowning
  • Freediving blackout
    • Deep-water blackout
    • Shallow-water blackout
  • Hypercapnia
  • Hypothermia
Historical
  • Ama
  • Octopus wrestling
  • Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's underwater swimming
Organisations
  • AIDA International
  • Scuba Schools International
  • Australian Underwater Federation
  • British Freediving Association
  • Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques
  • Fédération Française d'Études et de Sports Sous-Marins
  • Performance Freediving International
Professional diving
Occupations
  • Ama
  • Commercial diver
    • Commercial offshore diver
    • Hazmat diver
  • Divemaster
  • Diving instructor
  • Diving safety officer
  • Diving superintendent
  • Diving supervisor
  • Haenyeo
  • Media diver
  • Police diver
  • Public safety diver
  • Scientific diver
  • Underwater archaeologist
Militarydiving
  • Army engineer diver
  • Canadian Armed Forces Divers
  • Clearance diver
  • Frogman
  • Minentaucher
  • Royal Navy ships diver
  • United States military divers
    • U.S. Navy diver
    • U.S.Navy master diver
Militarydivingunits
  • 7th Marine Brigade
  • Clearance Diving Branch (RAN)
  • Commando Hubert
  • Combat Divers Service (Lithuania)
  • Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei e Incursori Teseo Tesei
  • Decima Flottiglia MAS
  • Frogman Corps (Denmark)
  • Fuerzas Especiales
  • Fukuryu
  • GRUMEC
  • Grup Gerak Khas
  • Jagdkommando
  • JW Formoza
  • JW GROM
  • JW Komandosów
  • Kommando Spezialkräfte Marine
  • KOPASKA
  • MARCOS
  • Marine Commandos
  • Marinejegerkommandoen
  • Marine Raider Regiment
  • Minedykkerkommandoen
  • Namibian Marine Corps Operational Diving Unit
  • Naval Diving Unit (Singapore)
  • Naval Service Diving Section
  • Naval Special Operations Command
  • Operational Diving Division (SA Navy)
  • Royal Engineers
  • Russian commando frogmen
  • Sappers Divers Group
  • Shayetet 13
  • Special Air Service
  • Special Air Service Regiment
  • Special Actions Detachment
  • Special Boat Service
  • Special Boat Squadron (Sri Lanka)
  • Special Forces Command (Turkey)
  • Special Forces Group (Belgium)
  • Special Operations Battalion (Croatia)
  • Special Service Group (Navy)
  • Special Warfare Diving and Salvage
  • Tactical Divers Group
  • US Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance
  • US Marine Corps Reconnaissance Battalions
  • US Navy SEALs
  • Underwater Construction Teams
  • Underwater Demolition Command
  • Underwater Demolition Team
  • Underwater Offence (Turkish Armed Forces)
  • UNGERIN
Underwaterwork
  • Commercial offshore diving
  • Dive leader
  • Diver training
    • Recreational diver training
  • Hazmat diving
  • Hyperbaric welding
  • Marine construction
    • Offshore construction
    • Underwater construction
  • Media diving
  • Pearl hunting
  • Police diving
  • Potable water diving
  • Public safety diving
  • Scientific diving
  • Ships husbandry
  • Sponge diving
  • Submarine pipeline
  • Underwater archaeology
    • Archaeology of shipwrecks
  • Underwater cutting and welding
  • Underwater demolition
  • Underwater inspection
    • Nondestructive testing
  • Underwater logging
  • Underwater photography
  • Underwater search and recovery
    • Underwater searches
  • Underwater videography
  • Underwater survey
Salvage diving
  • SS Egypt
  • Kronan
  • La Belle
  • SS Laurentic
  • RMS Lusitania
  • Mars
  • Mary Rose
  • USS Monitor
  • HMS Royal George
  • Vasa
Divingcontractors
  • COMEX
  • Helix Energy Solutions Group
  • International Marine Contractors Association
Tools andequipment
  • Abrasive waterjet
  • Airlift
  • Baited remote underwater video
  • In-water surface cleaning
    • Brush cart
    • Cavitation cleaning
    • Pressure washing
    • Pigging
  • Hot stab
  • Lifting bag
  • Remotely operated underwater vehicle
  • Thermal lance
  • Tremie
  • Water jetting
Underwaterweapons
  • Limpet mine
  • Speargun
    • Hawaiian sling
    • Polespear
Underwaterfirearm
  • Gyrojet
  • Mk 1 Underwater Defense Gun
  • Powerhead
  • Underwater pistols
    • Heckler & Koch P11
    • SPP-1 underwater pistol
  • Underwater revolvers
    • AAI underwater revolver
  • Underwater rifles
    • ADS amphibious rifle
    • APS underwater rifle
    • ASM-DT amphibious rifle
    • QBS-06
Recreational diving
  • Recreational dive sites
  • Index of recreational dive sites
  • List of wreck diving sites
  • Outline of recreational dive sites
  • Children in scuba diving
Specialties
  • Altitude diving
  • Cave diving
  • Deep diving
  • Ice diving
  • Muck diving
  • Open-water diving
  • Rebreather diving
  • Sidemount diving
  • Solo diving
  • Technical diving
  • Underwater photography
  • Wreck diving
Diverorganisations
  • British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC)
  • Cave Divers Association of Australia (CDAA)
  • Cave Diving Group (CDG)
  • Comhairle Fo-Thuinn (CFT)
  • Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS)
  • Federación Española de Actividades Subacuáticas (FEDAS)
  • Fédération Française d'Études et de Sports Sous-Marins (FFESSM)
  • International Association for Handicapped Divers (IAHD)
  • Quintana Roo Speleological Survey (QRSS)
  • Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP)
Diving tourismindustry
  • Dive center
  • Diving in Timor-Leste
  • Diving in the Maldives
  • Environmental impact of recreational diving
  • Scuba diving tourism
  • Scuba diving in the Cayman Islands
  • Shark tourism
  • Sinking ships for wreck diving sites
  • Underwater diving in Guam
Diving eventsand festivals
  • Diversnight
  • Underwater Bike Race
Diving safety
  • Human factors in diving equipment design
  • Human factors in diving safety
  • Life-support system
  • Safety-critical system
  • Scuba diving fatalities
  • Underwater diving emergency
  • Water safety
  • Water surface searches
Divinghazards
  • List of diving hazards and precautions
  • Environmental
    • Current
    • Delta-P
    • Entanglement hazard
    • Overhead
    • Silt out
    • Wave action
  • Equipment
    • Freeflow
    • Use of breathing equipment in an underwater environment
    • Failure of diving equipment other than breathing apparatus
    • Single point of failure
  • Physiological
    • Cold shock response
    • Decompression
    • Nitrogen narcosis
    • Oxygen toxicity
    • Seasickness
    • Uncontrolled decompression
  • Diver behaviour and competence
    • Incompetence
    • Overconfidence effect
    • Panic
    • Task loading
    • Trait anxiety
    • Willful violation
Consequences
  • Barotrauma
  • Decompression sickness
  • Drowning
  • Hypothermia
  • Hypoxia
  • Hypercapnia
  • Hyperthermia
  • Non-freezing cold injury
Divingprocedures
  • Ascending and descending
    • Emergency ascent
  • Boat diving
    • Canoe and kayak diving
  • Buddy diving
    • buddy check
  • Decompression
    • Decompression practice
    • Pyle stop
    • Ratio decompression
  • Dive briefing
  • Dive log
  • Dive planning
    • Rule of thirds
    • Scuba gas planning
  • Diver communications
  • Diver rescue
  • Diver training
  • Doing It Right
  • Drift diving
  • Gas blending for scuba diving
  • Night diving
  • Rebreather diving
  • Scuba gas management
  • Solo diving
  • Wall diving
Riskmanagement
  • Checklist
  • Hazard identification and risk assessment
    • Hazard analysis
    • Job safety analysis
    • Risk assessment
  • Hyperbaric evacuation and rescue
  • Risk control
    • Hierarchy of hazard controls
  • Incident pit
  • Lockout–tagout
  • Permit To Work
  • Redundancy
  • Safety data sheet
  • Situation awareness
Diving team
  • Bellman
  • Chamber operator
  • Diver medical technician
  • Diver's attendant
  • Diving supervisor
  • Diving systems technician
  • Gas man
  • Life support technician
  • Stand-by diver
Equipmentsafety
  • Breathing gas quality
  • Testing and inspection of diving cylinders
    • Hydrostatic test
    • Sustained load cracking
  • Diving regulator
    • Breathing performance of regulators
Occupationalsafety andhealth
  • Association of Diving Contractors International
  • International Marine Contractors Association
  • Code of practice
  • Contingency plan
  • Diving regulations
  • Emergency response plan
  • Diving safety officer
  • Diving superintendent
  • Diving supervisor
  • Operations manual
  • Standard operating procedure
Diving medicine
Divingdisorders
  • List of signs and symptoms of diving disorders
  • Cramp
  • Motion sickness
  • Surfer's ear
Pressurerelated
  • Alternobaric vertigo
  • Barostriction
  • Barotrauma
    • Air embolism
    • Aerosinusitis
    • Barodontalgia
    • Dental barotrauma
    • Middle ear barotrauma
    • Pulmonary barotrauma
  • Compression arthralgia
  • Decompression illness
  • Dysbarism
Oxygen
  • Freediving blackout
  • Hyperoxia
  • Hypoxia
  • Oxygen toxicity
Inert gases
  • Avascular necrosis
  • Decompression sickness
    • Dysbaric osteonecrosis
    • Inner ear decompression sickness
    • Isobaric counterdiffusion
    • Taravana
  • High-pressure nervous syndrome
  • Hydrogen narcosis
  • Nitrogen narcosis
Carbon dioxide
  • Hypercapnia
  • Hypocapnia
Breathing gascontaminants
  • Carbon monoxide poisoning
Immersionrelated
  • Asphyxia
  • Drowning
  • Hypothermia
  • Immersion diuresis
  • Instinctive drowning response
  • Laryngospasm
  • Salt water aspiration syndrome
  • Swimming-induced pulmonary edema
Treatment
  • Demand valve oxygen therapy
  • First aid
  • Hyperbaric medicine
  • Hyperbaric treatment schedules
  • In-water recompression
  • Oxygen therapy
  • Therapeutic recompression
Personnel
  • Diving Medical Examiner
  • Diving Medical Practitioner
  • Diving Medical Technician
  • Hyperbaric nursing
Screening
  • Atrial septal defect
  • Effects of drugs on fitness to dive
  • Fitness to dive
  • Psychological fitness to dive
Research
Researchers indiving physiologyand medicine
  • Arthur J. Bachrach
  • Albert R. Behnke
  • Peter B. Bennett
  • Paul Bert
  • George F. Bond
  • Robert Boyle
  • Alf O. Brubakk
  • Albert A. Bühlmann
  • John R. Clarke
  • Guybon Chesney Castell Damant
  • Kenneth William Donald
  • William Paul Fife
  • John Scott Haldane
  • Robert William Hamilton Jr.
  • Henry Valence Hempleman
  • Leonard Erskine Hill
  • Brian Andrew Hills
  • Felix Hoppe-Seyler
  • Christian J. Lambertsen
  • Simon Mitchell
  • Charles Momsen
  • Neal W. Pollock
  • John Rawlins
  • Charles Wesley Shilling
  • Edward D. Thalmann
  • Jacques Triger
Diving medicalresearchorganisations
  • Aerospace Medical Association
  • Divers Alert Network (DAN)
  • Diving Diseases Research Centre (DDRC)
  • Diving Medical Advisory Council (DMAC)
  • European Diving Technology Committee (EDTC)
  • European Underwater and Baromedical Society (EUBS)
  • National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology
  • Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory
  • Royal Australian Navy School of Underwater Medicine
  • Rubicon Foundation
  • South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS)
  • Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS)
  • United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU)
Law
  • Civil liability in recreational diving
  • Diving regulations
  • Duty of care
  • List of legislation regulating underwater diving
  • Investigation of diving accidents
  • Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage
History of underwater diving
  • History of decompression research and development
  • History of dive computers
  • History of Diving Museum
  • History of scuba diving
  • List of researchers in underwater diving
  • Lyons Maritime Museum
  • Man in the Sea Museum
  • Timeline of atmospheric diving suits
  • Timeline of diving technology
  • Pearling in Western Australia
  • US Navy decompression models and tables
Archeologicalsites
  • SS Commodore
  • USS Monitor
  • Queen Anne's Revenge
  • Whydah Gally
Underwater artand artists
  • The Diver
  • Jason deCaires Taylor
Engineersand inventors
  • Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont
  • William Beebe
  • Georges Beuchat
  • Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
  • Joseph-Martin Cabirol
  • John R. Clarke
  • Jacques Cousteau
  • Charles Anthony Deane
  • John Deane
  • Louis de Corlieu
  • Auguste Denayrouze
  • Ted Eldred
  • Henry Fleuss
  • Émile Gagnan
  • Karl Heinrich Klingert
  • Peter Kreeft
  • Christian J. Lambertsen
  • Yves Le Prieur
  • John Lethbridge
  • Ernest William Moir
  • Joseph Salim Peress
  • Auguste Piccard
  • Joe Savoie
  • Willard Franklyn Searle
  • Gordon Smith
  • Augustus Siebe
  • Pierre-Marie Touboulic
  • Jacques Triger
Historicalequipment
  • Aqua-Lung
  • RV Calypso
  • SP-350 Denise
  • Magnesium torch
  • Nikonos
  • Porpoise regulator
  • Standard diving dress
  • Sub Marine Explorer
  • Vintage scuba
Diverpropulsionvehicles
  • Advanced SEAL Delivery System
  • Cosmos CE2F series
  • Dry Combat Submersible
  • Human torpedo
  • Motorised Submersible Canoe
  • Necker Nymph
  • R-2 Mala-class swimmer delivery vehicle
  • SEAL Delivery Vehicle
  • Shallow Water Combat Submersible
  • Siluro San Bartolomeo
  • Welfreighter
  • Wet Nellie
Military andcovert operations
  • Raid on Alexandria (1941)
  • Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
Scientific projects
  • 1992 cageless shark-diving expedition
  • Mission 31
Awards and events
  • Hans Hass Award
  • International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame
  • London Diving Chamber Dive Lectures
  • NOGI Awards
  • Women Divers Hall of Fame
Incidents
Dive boat incidents
  • Sinking of MV Conception
Diver rescues
  • Alpazat cave rescue
  • Tham Luang cave rescue
Early diving
  • John Day (carpenter)
  • Charles Spalding
  • Ebenezer Watson
Freediving fatalities
  • Stephen Keenan
  • Loïc Leferme
  • Audrey Mestre
  • Nicholas Mevoli
  • Natalia Molchanova
Offshorediving incidents
  • Byford Dolphin diving bell accident
  • Drill Master diving accident
  • Star Canopus diving accident
  • Stena Seaspread diving accident
  • Venture One diving accident
  • Waage Drill II diving accident
  • Wildrake diving accident
Professionaldiving fatalities
  • Roger Baldwin
  • John Bennett
  • Victor F. Guiel Jr.
  • Francis P. Hammerberg
  • Craig M. Hoffman
  • Peter Henry Michael Holmes
  • Johnson Sea Link accident
    • Edwin Clayton Link
  • Gerard Anthony Prangley
  • Per Skipnes
  • Robert John Smyth
  • Albert D. Stover
  • Richard A. Walker
  • Lothar Michael Ward
  • Joachim Wendler
  • Bradley Westell
  • Arne Zetterström
Scuba divingfatalities
  • 1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident
  • Ricardo Armbruster
  • Allan Bridge
  • David Bright
  • Berry L. Cannon
  • Cotton Coulson
  • Cláudio Coutinho
  • E. Yale Dawson
  • Deon Dreyer
  • Milan Dufek
  • Sheck Exley
  • Maurice Fargues
  • Fernando Garfella Palmer
  • Guy Garman
  • Steve Irwin
    • death
  • Jim Jones
  • Henry Way Kendall
  • Artur Kozłowski
  • Yuri Lipski
  • Kirsty MacColl
  • Agnes Milowka
  • François de Roubaix
  • Chris and Chrissy Rouse
  • Dave Shaw
  • Wesley C. Skiles
  • Dewey Smith
  • Rob Stewart
  • Esbjörn Svensson
  • Josef Velek
Publications
Manuals
  • NOAA Diving Manual
  • U.S. Navy Diving Manual
  • Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival
  • Underwater Handbook
  • Bennett and Elliott's physiology and medicine of diving
  • Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
  • The new science of skin and scuba diving
  • Professional Diver's Handbook
  • Basic Scuba
Standards andCodes of Practice
  • Code of Practice for Scientific Diving (UNESCO)
  • DIN 7876
  • IMCA Code of Practice for Offshore Diving
  • ISO 24801 Recreational diving services — Requirements for the training of recreational scuba divers
General non-fiction
  • The Darkness Beckons
  • Goldfinder
  • The Last Dive
  • Shadow Divers
  • The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure
Research
  • List of Divers Alert Network publications
Dive guides
Training and registration
Divertraining
  • Competence and assessment
    • Competency-based learning
    • Refresher training
    • Skill assessment
  • Diver training standard
  • Diving instructor
  • Diving school
  • Occupational diver training
    • Commercial diver training
    • Military diver training
    • Public safety diver training
    • Scientific diver training
  • Recreational diver training
    • Introductory diving
    • ISO training standards
  • Teaching method
    • Muscle memory
    • Overlearning
    • Stress exposure training
Skills
  • Combat sidestroke
  • Diver navigation
  • Diver trim
  • Ear clearing
    • Frenzel maneuver
    • Valsalva maneuver
  • Finning techniques
  • Scuba skills
    • Buddy breathing
    • Low impact diving
      • Diamond Reef System
  • Surface-supplied diving skills
  • Underwater searches
Recreationalscubacertificationlevels
Core diving skills
  • Advanced Open Water Diver
  • Autonomous diver
  • CMAS* scuba diver
  • CMAS** scuba diver
  • Introductory diving
  • Low Impact Diver
  • Master Scuba Diver
  • Open Water Diver
  • Supervised diver
Leadership skills
  • Dive leader
    • Divemaster
  • Diving instructor
    • Master Instructor
Specialist skills
  • Rescue Diver
  • Solo diver
Diver trainingcertificationand registrationorganisations
  • European Underwater Federation (EUF)
  • International Diving Regulators and Certifiers Forum (IDRCF)
  • International Diving Schools Association (IDSA)
  • International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA)
  • List of diver certification organizations
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • Nautical Archaeology Society
  • Recreational diver course referral
  • World Recreational Scuba Training Council (WRSTC)
Commercial divercertificationauthorities
  • Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme (ADAS)
  • Commercial diver registration in South Africa
  • Divers Institute of Technology
  • Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
  • Department of Employment and Labour
Commercial divingschools
  • Divers Academy International
  • Norwegian diver school
Free-divingcertificationagencies
  • AIDA International (AIDA)
  • Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS)
  • Performance Freediving International (PI)
  • Scuba Schools International (SSI)
Recreationalscubacertificationagencies
  • American Canadian Underwater Certifications (ACUC)
  • American Nitrox Divers International (ANDI)
  • Association nationale des moniteurs de plongée (ANMP)
  • British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC)
  • Comhairle Fo-Thuinn (CFT)
  • Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS)
  • Federación Española de Actividades Subacuáticas (FEDAS)
  • Fédération Française d'Études et de Sports Sous-Marins (FFESSM)
  • Federazione Italiana Attività Subacquee (FIAS)
  • Global Underwater Explorers (GUE)
  • International Association for Handicapped Divers (IAHD)
  • International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD)
  • International Life Saving Federation (ILS)
  • Israeli Diving Federation (TIDF)
  • National Academy of Scuba Educators (NASE)
  • National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI)
  • Nederlandse Onderwatersport Bond (NOB)
  • Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI)
  • Professional Diving Instructors Corporation (PDIC)
  • Professional Technical and Recreational Diving (ProTec)
  • Rebreather Association of International Divers (RAID)
  • Sub-Aqua Association (SAA)
  • Scuba Diving International (SDI)
  • Scuba Educators International (SEI)
  • Scuba Schools International (SSI)
  • Türkiye Sualtı Sporları Federasyonu (TSSF)
  • United Diving Instructors (UDI)
  • YMCA SCUBA Program
Scientific divercertificationauthorities
  • American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS)
  • CMAS Scientific Committee
Technical divercertificationagencies
  • American Nitrox Divers International (ANDI)
  • British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC)
  • Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS)
  • Diving Science and Technology (DSAT)
  • Federazione Italiana Attività Subacquee (FIAS)
  • International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD)
  • Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI)
  • Professional Diving Instructors Corporation (PDIC)
  • Professional Technical and Recreational Diving (ProTec)
  • Rebreather Association of International Divers (RAID)
  • Trimix Scuba Association (TSA)
Cavediving
  • Cave Divers Association of Australia (CDAA)
  • Cave Diving Group (CDG)
  • Global Underwater Explorers (GUE)
  • National Speleological Society#Cave Diving Group (CDG)
  • National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI)
  • Technical Diving International (TDI)
Military divertraining centres
  • Defence Diving School
  • Navy Diving Salvage and Training Center
  • Underwater Escape Training Unit
Military divertraining courses
  • United States Marine Corps Combatant Diver Course
Underwater sports
Surface snorkeling
  • Finswimming
Snorkeling/breath-hold
  • Spearfishing
  • Underwater football
  • Underwater hockey
    • Australia
    • Turkey
  • Underwater rugby
    • Colombia
    • United States
  • Underwater target shooting
Breath-hold
  • Aquathlon
  • Apnoea finswimming
  • Freediving
Open Circuit Scuba
  • Immersion finswimming
  • Sport diving
  • Underwater cycling
  • Underwater orienteering
  • Underwater photography
Rebreather
  • Underwater photography
Sports governingorganisations and federations
  • International
    • AIDA International
    • Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques)
  • National
    • AIDA Hellas
    • Australian Underwater Federation
    • British Freediving Association
    • British Octopush Association
    • British Underwater Sports Association
    • Comhairle Fo-Thuinn
    • Federación Española de Actividades Subacuáticas
    • Fédération Française d'Études et de Sports Sous-Marins
    • South African Underwater Sports Federation
    • Türkiye Sualtı Sporları Federasyonu
    • Underwater Society of America)
Competitions
  • 14th CMAS Underwater Photography World Championship
  • Underwater Hockey World Championships
  • Underwater Orienteering World Championships
  • Underwater Rugby World Championships
Underwater divers
Pioneersof diving
  • Eduard Admetlla i Lázaro
  • Aquanaut
  • Mary Bonnin
  • Amelia Behrens-Furniss
  • James F. Cahill
  • Jacques Cousteau
  • Billy Deans
  • Dottie Frazier
  • Trevor Hampton
  • Hans Hass
  • Hannes Keller
  • Dick Rutkowski
  • Teseo Tesei
  • Arne Zetterström
Underwaterscientistsarchaeologists andenvironmentalists
  • Michael Arbuthnot
  • Robert Ballard
  • George Bass
  • Mensun Bound
  • Louis Boutan
  • Jeffrey Bozanic
  • Hugh Bradner
  • Cathy Church
  • Eugenie Clark
  • James P. Delgado
  • Sylvia Earle
  • John Christopher Fine
  • George R. Fischer
  • Anders Franzén
  • Honor Frost
  • Fernando Garfella Palmer
  • David Gibbins
  • Graham Jessop
  • Swietenia Puspa Lestari
  • Pilar Luna
  • Robert F. Marx
  • Anna Marguerite McCann
  • Innes McCartney
  • Charles T. Meide
  • Mark M. Newell
  • Lyuba Ognenova-Marinova
  • John Peter Oleson
  • Mendel L. Peterson
  • Richard Pyle
  • Andreas Rechnitzer
  • William R. Royal
  • Margaret Rule
  • Gunter Schöbel
  • Stephanie Schwabe
  • Myriam Seco
  • E. Lee Spence
  • Robert Sténuit
  • Peter Throckmorton
  • Cristina Zenato
Scuba recordholders
  • Pascal Bernabé
  • Jim Bowden
  • Mark Ellyatt
  • Sheck Exley
  • Nuno Gomes
  • Claudia Serpieri
  • Krzysztof Starnawski
Underwaterfilmmakersand presenters
  • Samir Alhafith
  • David Attenborough
  • Ramón Bravo
  • Jean-Michel Cousteau
  • Richie Kohler
  • Paul Rose
  • Andy Torbet
  • Ivan Tors
  • Andrew Wight
  • James Cameron
Underwaterphotographers
  • Doug Allan
  • Tamara Benitez
  • Georges Beuchat
  • Adrian Biddle
  • Jonathan Bird
  • Eric Cheng
  • Neville Coleman
  • Jacques Cousteau
  • John D. Craig
  • Ben Cropp
  • Bernard Delemotte
  • David Doubilet
  • Candice Farmer
  • John Christopher Fine
  • Rodney Fox
  • Ric Frazier
  • Stephen Frink
  • Peter Gimbel
  • Monty Halls
  • Hans Hass
  • Henry Way Kendall
  • Rudie Kuiter
  • Joseph B. MacInnis
  • Luis Marden
  • Agnes Milowka
  • Noel Monkman
  • Pete Oxford
  • Steve Parish
  • Zale Parry
  • Pierre Petit
  • Leni Riefenstahl
  • Peter Scoones
  • Brian Skerry
  • Wesley C. Skiles
  • E. Lee Spence
  • Philippe Tailliez
  • Ron Taylor
  • Valerie Taylor
  • Albert Tillman
  • John Veltri
  • Stan Waterman
  • Michele Westmorland
  • John Ernest Williamson
  • J. Lamar Worzel
Underwaterexplorers
  • Caves
    • Graham Balcombe
    • Sheck Exley
    • Martyn Farr
    • Jochen Hasenmayer
    • Jill Heinerth
    • Jarrod Jablonski
    • Brian Kakuk
    • William Hogarth Main
    • Tom Mount
    • Jack Sheppard
    • Bill Stone
  • Reefs
    • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Wrecks
    • Leigh Bishop
    • John Chatterton
    • Clive Cussler
    • Bill Nagle
    • Valerie van Heest
    • Aristotelis Zervoudis
Aquanauts
  • Andrew Abercromby
  • Joseph M. Acaba
  • Clayton Anderson
  • Richard R. Arnold
  • Serena Auñón-Chancellor
  • Michael Barratt (astronaut)
  • Robert A. Barth
  • Robert L. Behnken
  • Randolph Bresnik
  • Timothy J. Broderick
  • Justin Brown
  • Berry L. Cannon
  • Scott Carpenter
  • Gregory Chamitoff
  • Steve Chappell
  • Catherine Coleman
  • Robin Cook
  • Craig B. Cooper
  • Fabien Cousteau
  • Philippe Cousteau
  • Timothy Creamer
  • Jonathan Dory
  • Pedro Duque
  • Sylvia Earle
  • Jeanette Epps
  • Sheck Exley
  • Albert Falco
  • Andrew J. Feustel
  • Michael Fincke
  • Satoshi Furukawa
  • Ronald J. Garan Jr.
  • Michael L. Gernhardt
  • Christopher E. Gerty
  • David Gruber
  • Chris Hadfield
  • Jeremy Hansen
  • José M. Hernández
  • John Herrington
  • Paul Hill
  • Akihiko Hoshide
  • Mark Hulsbeck
  • Emma Hwang
  • Norishige Kanai
  • Les Kaufman
  • Scott Kelly
  • Karen Kohanowich
  • Timothy Kopra
  • Dominic Landucci
  • Jon Lindbergh
  • Kjell N. Lindgren
  • Michael López-Alegría
  • Joseph B. MacInnis
  • Sandra Magnus
  • Thomas Marshburn
  • Matthias Maurer
  • K. Megan McArthur
  • Craig McKinley
  • Jessica Meir
  • Simone Melchior
  • Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger
  • Andreas Mogensen
  • Karen Nyberg
  • John D. Olivas
  • Takuya Onishi
  • Luca Parmitano
  • Nicholas Patrick
  • Tim Peake
  • Thomas Pesquet
  • Marc Reagan
  • Garrett Reisman
  • Kathleen Rubins
  • Dick Rutkowski
  • Tara Ruttley
  • David Saint-Jacques
  • Josef Schmid
  • Robert Sheats
  • Dewey Smith
  • Steve Squyres
  • Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
  • Robert Sténuit
  • Hervé Stevenin
  • Nicole Stott
  • James Talacek
  • Daniel M. Tani
  • Robert Thirsk
  • Bill Todd
  • Mark T. Vande Hei
  • Koichi Wakata
  • Rex J. Walheim
  • Shannon Walker
  • John Morgan Wells
  • Joachim Wendler
  • Douglas H. Wheelock
  • Peggy Whitson
  • Dafydd Williams
  • Jeffrey Williams
  • Sunita Williams
  • Reid Wiseman
  • Kimiya Yui
Writers and journalists
  • Michael C. Barnette
  • Victor Berge
  • Philippe Diolé
  • Gary Gentile
  • Bret Gilliam
  • Bob Halstead
  • Hillary Hauser
  • Trevor Jackson
  • Steve Lewis
  • John Mattera
Rescuers
  • Craig Challen
  • Richard Harris
  • Rick Stanton
  • John Volanthen
Frogmen
  • Lionel Crabb
  • Ian Edward Fraser
  • Sydney Knowles
  • James Joseph Magennis
Commercial salvors
  • Keith Jessop
Science of underwater diving
  • List of researchers in underwater diving
Divingphysics
  • Metre sea water
  • Neutral buoyancy
  • Underwater acoustics
    • Modulated ultrasound
  • Underwater vision
    • Underwater computer vision
Divingphysiology
  • Blood shift
  • Cold shock response
  • Diving reflex
  • Equivalent narcotic depth
  • Maximum operating depth
  • Physiological response to water immersion
  • Thermal balance of the underwater diver
  • Underwater vision
  • Work of breathing
Decompressiontheory
  • Decompression models:
    • Bühlmann decompression algorithm
    • Haldane's decompression model
    • Reduced gradient bubble model
    • Thalmann algorithm
    • Thermodynamic model of decompression
    • Varying Permeability Model
  • Equivalent air depth
  • Oxygen window
  • Physiology of decompression
Divingenvironments
  • Underwater exploration
    • Deep-sea exploration
Classification
  • List of diving environments by type
  • Altitude diving
  • Benign water diving
  • Confined water diving
  • Deep diving
  • Inland diving
  • Inshore diving
  • Muck diving
  • Night diving
  • Open-water diving
    • Black-water diving
    • Blue-water diving
  • Penetration diving
    • Cave diving
      • Torricellian chamber
    • Ice diving
    • Wreck diving
  • Recreational dive sites
  • Underwater environment
  • Underwater diving environment
Impact
  • Environmental impact of recreational diving
  • Low impact diving
Other
  • Bathysphere
  • Defense against swimmer incursions
    • Diver detection sonar
  • Offshore survey
  • Rugged compact camera
  • Underwater domain awareness
  • Underwater vehicle
Deep-submergencevehicle
  • Aluminaut
  • DSV Alvin
  • American submarine NR-1
  • Bathyscaphe
    • Archimède
    • FNRS-2
    • FNRS-3
    • Harmony class bathyscaphe
    • Sea Pole-class bathyscaphe
    • Trieste II
  • Deepsea Challenger
  • Ictineu 3
  • JAGO
  • Jiaolong
  • Konsul-class submersible
  • Limiting Factor
  • Russian submarine Losharik
  • Mir
  • Nautile
  • Pisces-class deep submergence vehicle
  • DSV Sea Cliff
  • DSV Shinkai
  • DSV Shinkai 2000
  • DSV Shinkai 6500
  • DSV Turtle
  • DSV-5 Nemo
Submarine rescue
  • International Submarine Escape and Rescue Liaison Office
  • Submarine Escape and Rescue system (Royal Swedish Navy)
  • McCann Rescue Chamber
  • Submarine rescue ship
Deep-submergencerescue vehicle
  • LR5
  • LR7
  • MSM-1
  • Mystic-class deep-submergence rescue vehicle
    • DSRV-1 Mystic
    • DSRV-2 Avalon
  • NATO Submarine Rescue System
  • Priz-class deep-submergence rescue vehicle
    • Russian deep submergence rescue vehicle AS-28
    • Russian submarine AS-34
  • ASRV Remora
  • SRV-300
  • Submarine Rescue Diving Recompression System
  • Type 7103 DSRV
  • URF (Swedish Navy)
Submarine escape
  • Escape trunk
  • Submarine escape training facility
  • Submarine Escape Training Facility (Australia)
Escape set
  • Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus
  • Momsen lung
  • Steinke hood
  • Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment
Specialinterestgroups
  • Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia
  • CMAS Europe
  • Coral Reef Alliance
  • Divers Alert Network
  • Green Fins
  • Finger Lakes Underwater Preserve Association
  • Karst Underwater Research
  • Nautical Archaeology Program
  • Nautical Archaeology Society
  • Naval Air Command Sub Aqua Club
  • PADI AWARE
  • Reef Check
  • Reef Life Survey
  • Rubicon Foundation
  • Save Ontario Shipwrecks
  • SeaKeys
  • Sea Research Society
  • Society for Underwater Historical Research
  • Society for Underwater Technology
  • Underwater Archaeology Branch, Naval History & Heritage Command
Neutral buoyancyfacilities forAstronaut training
  • Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
  • Neutral buoyancy pool
  • Neutral buoyancy simulation as a training aid
  • Neutral Buoyancy Simulator
  • Space Systems Laboratory
  • Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
Other
  • Nautilus Productions
  • Helicopter Aircrew Breathing Device
  • Scuba diving therapy
  • Seabed mining
  • Category
  • Commons
  • Glossary
  • Indexes: Dive sites
  • Divers
  • Diving
  • Outline
  • Portal
Authority control databases Edit this at Wikidata
International
  • GND
National
  • United States
  • Israel
Other
  • Yale LUX

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