Table of Contents
143 relations: Altitude, Anaesthetic machine, Anesthesia, AP Diving, Asphyxia, Atmosphere of Earth, Atmospheric diving suit, Atmospheric pressure, Bailout bottle, Barium hydroxide, Basal metabolic rate, Base (chemistry), Binoculars, Blackett's Aerophor, Boyle's law, Breathing, Breathing circuit, Breathing gas, Brest, France, British Sub-Aqua Club, Calcium hydroxide, Carbon dioxide, Carbon dioxide scrubber, Cave diving, Charles Evans (mountaineer), Check valve, Christian J. Lambertsen, Cold War, Coma, Control system, Cornelis Drebbel, Corrosion, Cressi-Sub, Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus, Dead space (physiology), Decima Flottiglia MAS, Decompression practice, Dive computer, Dive profile, Diving regulator, Drag (physics), Dräger (company), Eastern Bloc, Elastomer, Extravehicular activity, Failure cause, Filtration, Firefighting, France, Frogman, ... Expand index (93 more) »
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Altitude
Altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object.
Anaesthetic machine
An anaesthetic machine (British English) or anesthesia machine (American English) is a medical device used to generate and mix a fresh gas flow of medical gases and inhalational anaesthetic agents for the purpose of inducing and maintaining anaesthesia.
See Rebreather and Anaesthetic machine
Anesthesia
Anesthesia or anaesthesia is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical or veterinary purposes.
AP Diving
The scuba equipment manufacturer AP Diving or Ambient Pressure Diving, formerly known as A.P.Valves, is at Water-Ma-Trout in Helston, Cornwall, England.
Asphyxia
Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body which arises from abnormal breathing.
Atmosphere of Earth
The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively as air, with variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates (which create weather features such as clouds and hazes), all retained by Earth's gravity.
See Rebreather and Atmosphere of Earth
Atmospheric diving suit
An atmospheric diving suit (ADS), or single atmosphere diving suit is a small one-person articulated submersible which resembles a suit of armour, with elaborate pressure joints to allow articulation while maintaining an internal pressure of one atmosphere.
See Rebreather and Atmospheric diving suit
Atmospheric pressure
Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.
See Rebreather and Atmospheric pressure
Bailout bottle
A bailout bottle (BoB) or, more formally, bailout cylinder is a scuba cylinder carried by an underwater diver for use as an emergency supply of breathing gas in the event of a primary gas supply failure.
See Rebreather and Bailout bottle
Barium hydroxide
Barium hydroxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula Ba(OH)2.
See Rebreather and Barium hydroxide
Basal metabolic rate
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of energy expenditure per unit time by endothermic animals at rest.
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Base (chemistry)
In chemistry, there are three definitions in common use of the word "base": Arrhenius bases, Brønsted bases, and Lewis bases.
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Binoculars
Binoculars or field glasses are two refracting telescopes mounted side-by-side and aligned to point in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both eyes (binocular vision) when viewing distant objects.
Blackett's Aerophor
The Blackett's Aerophor is a nitrox semi-closed-circuit rebreather with liquid gas storage made in England from 1910 onwards for use in mine rescue and other industrial uses. Rebreather and Blackett's Aerophor are rebreathers.
See Rebreather and Blackett's Aerophor
Boyle's law
Boyle's law, also referred to as the Boyle–Mariotte law or Mariotte's law (especially in France), is an empirical gas law that describes the relationship between pressure and volume of a confined gas.
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Breathing
Breathing (spiration or ventilation) is the rhythmical process of moving air into (inhalation) and out of (exhalation) the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the internal environment, mostly to flush out carbon dioxide and bring in oxygen.
Breathing circuit
A breathing circuit is those parts of a breathing apparatus (or breathing system), which direct the flow of supplied breathing gas to, and sometimes from, the user.
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Breathing gas
A breathing gas is a mixture of gaseous chemical elements and compounds used for respiration.
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Brest, France
Brest is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany.
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British Sub-Aqua Club
The British Sub-Aqua Club or BSAC has been recognised since 1954 by UK Sport as the national governing body of recreational diving in the United Kingdom.
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Calcium hydroxide
Calcium hydroxide (traditionally called slaked lime) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ca(OH)2.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
See Rebreather and Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide scrubber
A carbon dioxide scrubber is a piece of equipment that absorbs carbon dioxide (CO2).
See Rebreather and Carbon dioxide scrubber
Cave diving
Cave-diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves.
See Rebreather and Cave diving
Charles Evans (mountaineer)
Sir Robert Charles Evans (19 October 1918 – 5 December 1995) was a British mountaineer, surgeon, and educator.
See Rebreather and Charles Evans (mountaineer)
Check valve
A check valve, non-return valve, reflux valve, retention valve, foot valve, or one-way valve is a valve that normally allows fluid (liquid or gas) to flow through it in only one direction.
See Rebreather and Check valve
Christian J. Lambertsen
Christian James Lambertsen (May 15, 1917 – February 11, 2011) was an American environmental medicine and diving medicine specialist who was principally responsible for developing the United States Navy frogmen's rebreathers in the early 1940s for underwater warfare.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Coma
A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions.
Control system
A control system manages, commands, directs, or regulates the behavior of other devices or systems using control loops.
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Cornelis Drebbel
Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel (1572 – 7 November 1633) was a Dutch engineer and inventor.
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Corrosion
Corrosion is a natural process that converts a refined metal into a more chemically stable oxide.
Cressi-Sub
Cressi is one of the largest manufacturers of water sports equipment in the world serving the scuba dive, snorkel and swim industries.
Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus
The Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus (also referred to as DSEA), was an early type of oxygen rebreather invented in 1910 by Sir Robert Davis, head of Siebe Gorman and Co. Ltd., inspired by the earlier Fleuss system, and adopted by the Royal Navy after further development by Davis in 1927. Rebreather and Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus are rebreathers.
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Dead space (physiology)
Dead space is the volume of air that is inhaled that does not take part in the gas exchange, because it either remains in the conducting airways or reaches alveoli that are not perfused or poorly perfused.
See Rebreather and Dead space (physiology)
Decima Flottiglia MAS
The Decima Flottiglia MAS (Decima Flottiglia Motoscafi Armati Siluranti, also known as La Decima or Xª MAS) (Italian for "10th Assault Vehicle Flotilla") was an Italian flotilla, with marines and commando frogman unit, of the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy).
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Decompression practice
To prevent or minimize decompression sickness, divers must properly plan and monitor decompression.
See Rebreather and Decompression practice
Dive computer
A dive computer, personal decompression computer or decompression meter is a device used by an underwater diver to measure the elapsed time and depth during a dive and use this data to calculate and display an ascent profile which, according to the programmed decompression algorithm, will give a low risk of decompression sickness.
See Rebreather and Dive computer
Dive profile
A dive profile is a description of a diver's pressure exposure over time.
See Rebreather and Dive profile
Diving regulator
A diving regulator or underwater diving regulator is a pressure regulator that controls the pressure of breathing gas for underwater diving.
See Rebreather and Diving regulator
Drag (physics)
In fluid dynamics, drag, sometimes referred to as fluid resistance, is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object, moving with respect to a surrounding fluid.
See Rebreather and Drag (physics)
Dräger (company)
Dräger is a German company based in Lübeck which makes breathing and protection equipment, gas detection and analysis systems, and noninvasive patient monitoring technologies.
See Rebreather and Dräger (company)
Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
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Elastomer
An elastomer is a polymer with viscoelasticity (i.e. both viscosity and elasticity) and with weak intermolecular forces, generally low Young's modulus (E) and high failure strain compared with other materials.
Extravehicular activity
Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut in outer space outside a spacecraft. Rebreather and Extravehicular activity are Spaceflight technology.
See Rebreather and Extravehicular activity
Failure cause
Failure causes are defects in design, process, quality, or part application, which are the underlying cause of a failure or which initiate a process which leads to failure.
See Rebreather and Failure cause
Filtration
Filtration is a physical separation process that separates solid matter and fluid from a mixture using a filter medium that has a complex structure through which only the fluid can pass.
Firefighting
Firefighting is a profession aimed at controlling and extinguishing fire.
See Rebreather and Firefighting
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Frogman
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.
Full-face diving mask
A full-face diving mask is a type of diving mask that seals the whole of the diver's face from the water and contains a mouthpiece, demand valve or constant flow gas supply that provides the diver with breathing gas.
See Rebreather and Full-face diving mask
Gene Hobbs
Eugene Weston Hobbs II, known as Gene Hobbs (born November 28, 1973) is an American technical diver and founding board member of the non-profit Rubicon Foundation.
Hans Hass
Hans Hass (23 January 1919 – 16 June 2013) was an Austrian biologist and underwater diving pioneer.
Henry Fleuss
Henry Albert Fleuss (13 June 1851 – 6 January 1933) was a pioneering diving engineer, and Master Diver for Siebe, Gorman & Co. of London.
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High altitude breathing apparatus
High altitude breathing apparatus is a breathing apparatus which allows a person to breathe more effectively at an altitude where the partial pressure of oxygen in the ambient atmospheric air is insufficient for the task or to sustain consciousness or human life over the long or short term.
See Rebreather and High altitude breathing apparatus
Hypercapnia
Hypercapnia (from the Greek hyper.
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Hypoxia (environmental)
Hypoxia (hypo: "below", oxia: "oxygenated") refers to low oxygen conditions.
See Rebreather and Hypoxia (environmental)
Hypoxia (medicine)
Hypoxia is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level.
See Rebreather and Hypoxia (medicine)
IDA71
The Soviet, later Russian IDA71 military and naval rebreather is an oxygen rebreather intended for use by naval and military divers including Russian commando frogmen. Rebreather and IDA71 are rebreathers.
Inhalational anesthetic
An inhalational anesthetic is a chemical compound possessing general anesthetic properties that is delivered via inhalation.
See Rebreather and Inhalational anesthetic
Italian Navy
The Italian Navy (Military Navy; abbreviated as MM) is one of the four branches of Italian Armed Forces and was formed in 1946 from what remained of the Regia Marina (Royal Navy) after World War II.
See Rebreather and Italian Navy
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Life-support system
A life-support system is the combination of equipment that allows survival in an environment or situation that would not support that life in its absence.
See Rebreather and Life-support system
Liquid oxygen
Liquid oxygen, sometimes abbreviated as LOX or LOXygen, is a clear light sky-blue liquid form of dioxygen.
See Rebreather and Liquid oxygen
Lithium hydroxide
Lithium hydroxide is an inorganic compound with the formula LiOH.
See Rebreather and Lithium hydroxide
Lithium peroxide
Lithium peroxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Li2O2.
See Rebreather and Lithium peroxide
Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II.
Mine rescue
Mine rescue or mines rescue is the specialised job of rescuing miners and others who have become trapped or injured in underground mines because of mining accidents, roof falls or floods and disasters such as explosions.
See Rebreather and Mine rescue
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.
Momsen lung
The Momsen lung was a primitive underwater rebreather used before and during World War II by American submariners as emergency escape gear. Rebreather and Momsen lung are rebreathers.
See Rebreather and Momsen lung
Mount Everest
Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.
See Rebreather and Mount Everest
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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Navy
A navy, naval force, military maritime fleet, war navy, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions.
Nitrox
Nitrox refers to any gas mixture composed (excepting trace gases) of nitrogen and oxygen.
O-ring
An O-ring, also known as a packing or a toric joint, is a mechanical gasket in the shape of a torus; it is a loop of elastomer with a round cross-section, designed to be seated in a groove and compressed during assembly between two or more parts, forming a seal at the interface.
Office of Strategic Services
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II.
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Orinasal mask
An orinasal mask, oro-nasal mask or oral-nasal mask is a breathing mask that covers the mouth and the nose only.
See Rebreather and Orinasal mask
Outer space
Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies.
See Rebreather and Outer space
Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
Oxygen sensor
An oxygen sensor (or lambda sensor, where lambda refers to air–fuel equivalence ratio, usually denoted by λ) or probe or sond, is an electronic device that measures the proportion of oxygen (O2) in the gas or liquid being analyzed.
See Rebreather and Oxygen sensor
Partial pressure
In a mixture of gases, each constituent gas has a partial pressure which is the notional pressure of that constituent gas as if it alone occupied the entire volume of the original mixture at the same temperature.
See Rebreather and Partial pressure
Patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Pergamon Press
Pergamon Press was an Oxford-based publishing house, founded by Paul Rosbaud and Robert Maxwell, that published scientific and medical books and journals.
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PH indicator
A pH indicator is a halochromic chemical compound added in small amounts to a solution so the pH (acidity or basicity) of the solution can be determined visually or spectroscopically by changes in absorption and/or emission properties.
See Rebreather and PH indicator
Pierre-Marie Touboulic
Pierre-Marie Touboulic (17 June 1783, Brest, France - 8 June 1859 Paris) was a naval engineer, inventor and writer.
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Pirelli
Pirelli & C. S.p.A. is an Italian multinational tyre manufacturer based in the city of Milan, Italy.
Potassium
Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.
Potassium nitrate
Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with a sharp, salty, bitter taste and the chemical formula.
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Potassium superoxide
Potassium superoxide is an inorganic compound with the formula.
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Primary life support system
A primary (or portable or personal) life support system (or subsystem) (PLSS), is a device connected to an astronaut or cosmonaut's spacesuit, which allows extra-vehicular activity with maximum freedom, independent of a spacecraft's life support system. Rebreather and primary life support system are rebreathers.
See Rebreather and Primary life support system
Rebreather
A rebreather is a breathing apparatus that absorbs the carbon dioxide of a user's exhaled breath to permit the rebreathing (recycling) of the substantially unused oxygen content, and unused inert content when present, of each breath. Rebreather and rebreather are rebreathers and Spaceflight technology.
Recreational diving
Recreational diving or sport diving is diving for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment, usually when using scuba equipment.
See Rebreather and Recreational diving
Respiratory rate
The respiratory rate is the rate at which breathing occurs; it is set and controlled by the respiratory center of the brain.
See Rebreather and Respiratory rate
Revolutions of 1989
The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world.
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Robert Davis (inventor)
Sir Robert Henry Davis (1870 – 1965) was an English inventor and director of the Siebe Gorman company.
See Rebreather and Robert Davis (inventor)
Royal Australian Navy School of Underwater Medicine
The Royal Australian Navy School of Underwater Medicine (RANSUM) is an instructor-led training course based at Sydney, Australia.
See Rebreather and Royal Australian Navy School of Underwater Medicine
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Safety-critical system
A safety-critical system or life-critical system is a system whose failure or malfunction may result in one (or more) of the following outcomes.
See Rebreather and Safety-critical system
Salmon-class submarine
The United States Navy Salmon-class submarines were an important developmental step in the design of the "fleet submarine" concept during the 1930s.
See Rebreather and Salmon-class submarine
Saturation diving
Saturation diving is diving for periods long enough to bring all tissues into equilibrium with the partial pressures of the inert components of the breathing gas used.
See Rebreather and Saturation diving
Scavenger system
A scavenger system is a medical device used in hospitals.
See Rebreather and Scavenger system
Scrubber
Scrubber systems (e.g. chemical scrubbers, gas scrubbers) are a diverse group of air pollution control devices that can be used to remove some particulates and/or gases from industrial exhaust streams.
Scuba set
A scuba set, originally just scuba, is any breathing apparatus that is entirely carried by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas at the ambient pressure.
SEFA
The SEFA is a make of backpack industrial breathing set formerly made by Sabre Safety. Rebreather and SEFA are rebreathers.
Self-contained breathing apparatus
A self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) is a respirator worn to provide an autonomous supply of breathable gas in an atmosphere that is immediately dangerous to life or health from a gas cylinder.
See Rebreather and Self-contained breathing apparatus
Severn Tunnel
The Severn Tunnel (Twnnel Hafren) is a railway tunnel in the United Kingdom, linking South Gloucestershire in the west of England to Monmouthshire in south Wales under the estuary of the River Severn.
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Siebe Gorman
Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd was a British company that developed diving equipment and breathing equipment and worked on commercial diving and marine salvage projects.
See Rebreather and Siebe Gorman
Siebe Gorman CDBA
The Clearance Divers Breathing Apparatus (CDBA) is a type of rebreather made by Siebe Gorman in England. Rebreather and Siebe Gorman CDBA are rebreathers.
See Rebreather and Siebe Gorman CDBA
Siebe Gorman Proto
The Proto is a type of rebreather that was made by Siebe Gorman. Rebreather and Siebe Gorman Proto are rebreathers.
See Rebreather and Siebe Gorman Proto
Siebe Gorman Salvus
The Siebe Gorman Salvus is a light oxygen rebreather for industrial use (including by firemen and in coalmine rescue) or in shallow diving. Rebreather and Siebe Gorman Salvus are rebreathers.
See Rebreather and Siebe Gorman Salvus
Sladen Suit
The Sladen Suit was a heavy type of British divers' drysuit made by Siebe Gorman.
See Rebreather and Sladen Suit
Sluice
A sluice is a water channel containing a sluice gate, a type of lock to manage the water flow and water level.
Smoke hood
A smoke hood, also called an Air-Purifying Respiratory Protective Smoke Escape Device (RPED), is a hood wherein a transparent airtight bag seals around the head of the wearer while an air filter held in the mouth connects to the outside atmosphere and is used to breathe.
Soda lime
Soda lime, a mixture of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and calcium oxide (CaO), is used in granular form within recirculating breathing environments like general anesthesia and its breathing circuit, submarines, rebreathers, and hyperbaric chambers and underwater habitats.
Sodium hydroxide
Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda, is an inorganic compound with the formula.
See Rebreather and Sodium hydroxide
Sodium peroxide
Sodium peroxide is an inorganic compound with the formula Na2O2.
See Rebreather and Sodium peroxide
Sodium superoxide
Sodium superoxide is the inorganic compound with the formula NaO2.
See Rebreather and Sodium superoxide
Space station
A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time.
See Rebreather and Space station
Space suit
A space suit or spacesuit is a garment worn to keep a human alive in the harsh environment of outer space, vacuum and temperature extremes. Rebreather and space suit are rebreathers.
Spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space.
Spearfishing
Spearfishing is fishing using handheld elongated, sharp-pointed tools such as a spear, gig, or harpoon, to impale the fish in the body.
See Rebreather and Spearfishing
Sponge (tool)
A sponge is a cleaning aid made of soft, porous material.
See Rebreather and Sponge (tool)
Standard diving dress
Standard diving dress, also known as hard-hat or copper hat equipment, deep sea diving suit or heavy gear, is a type of diving suit that was formerly used for all relatively deep underwater work that required more than breath-hold duration, which included marine salvage, civil engineering, pearl shell diving and other commercial diving work, and similar naval diving applications.
See Rebreather and Standard diving dress
Standard sea-level conditions
Standard sea-level conditions (SSL), also known as sea-level standard (SLS), defines a set of atmospheric conditions for physical calculations.
See Rebreather and Standard sea-level conditions
Submarine
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
Sump (cave)
A sump, or siphon, is a passage in a cave that is submerged under water.
See Rebreather and Sump (cave)
Surface-supplied diving
Surface-supplied diving is a mode of underwater diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas through a diver's umbilical from the surface, either from the shore or from a diving support vessel, sometimes indirectly via a diving bell.
See Rebreather and Surface-supplied diving
Teseo Tesei
Teseo Tesei (3 January 1909 – 26 July 1941) was an Italian naval officer, who invented the human torpedo (called Maiale, Italian for "pig") used by the Regia Marina during World War II.
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Tom Bourdillon
Thomas Duncan Bourdillon (16 March 1924 – 29 July 1956) was an English mountaineer and member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition which made the first ascent of Mount Everest.
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Underwater diving
Underwater diving, as a human activity, is the practice of descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment.
See Rebreather and Underwater diving
Underwater environment
An underwater environment is a environment of, and immersed in, liquid water in a natural or artificial feature (called a body of water), such as an ocean, sea, lake, pond, reservoir, river, canal, or aquifer.
See Rebreather and Underwater environment
Underwater habitat
Underwater habitats are underwater structures in which people can live for extended periods and carry out most of the basic human functions of a 24-hour day, such as working, resting, eating, attending to personal hygiene, and sleeping.
See Rebreather and Underwater habitat
United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy (USNA, Navy, or Annapolis) is a federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
See Rebreather and United States Naval Academy
United States Porpoise-class submarine
The Porpoise class were submarines built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s, and incorporated a number of modern features that would make them the basis for the subsequent,,,,, and classes.
See Rebreather and United States Porpoise-class submarine
University of Auckland
The University of Auckland (UoA; Māori: Waipapa Taumata Rau) is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand.
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University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida.
See Rebreather and University of Florida
Vacuum
A vacuum (vacuums or vacua) is space devoid of matter.
Work of breathing
Work of breathing (WOB) is the energy expended to inhale and exhale a breathing gas.
See Rebreather and Work of breathing
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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1938 British Mount Everest expedition
Led by Bill Tilman, the 1938 British Mount Everest expedition was a low-key, low-cost expedition which was unlucky in encountering a very early monsoon.
See Rebreather and 1938 British Mount Everest expedition
1953 British Mount Everest expedition
The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29 May 1953.
See Rebreather and 1953 British Mount Everest expedition
See also
Rebreathers
- Blackett's Aerophor
- CDBA
- CUMA
- Clearance Divers Life Support Equipment
- Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus
- Diving rebreather
- Halcyon PVR-BASC
- Halcyon RB80
- IDA71
- Interspiro DCSC
- Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit
- Mark IV Amphibian
- Momsen lung
- Oxygen breathing apparatus
- Primary life support system
- Rebreather
- SCBA (disambiguation)
- SDBA
- SEFA
- Siebe Gorman CDBA
- Siebe Gorman Proto
- Siebe Gorman Salvus
- Siebe Gorman Savox
- Space suit
Spaceflight technology
- 3D-printed spacecraft
- Ariane Next
- Autonomous Landing Hazard Avoidance Technology
- Ballute
- CALLISTO
- Delta-DOR
- EELV Secondary Payload Adapter
- Extravehicular activity
- Floating launch vehicle operations platform
- Fractionated spacecraft
- Fugro SpAARC
- G-jitter
- Ground segment
- Hand-held maneuvering unit
- Human analog missions
- Hypercone (spacecraft)
- ICER (file format)
- Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator
- Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator
- Marman clamp
- Mass catcher
- Mission control center
- NanoSat MO Framework
- Non-rocket spacelaunch
- Orbit determination
- Orbital ring
- PEGASUS
- Prometheus (rocket engine)
- Rebreather
- Sharp Edge Flight Experiment
- Silicone impregnated refractory ceramic ablator
- Space elevator
- Space fountain
- Space gun
- Space guns
- Space vehicle
- Spacecraft communication
- Spacecraft propulsion
- Spacesuits
- Spin stabilization
- Telemetry
- Themis programme
- Transpiration cooling
- Vacuum cementing
References
Also known as Absorbent canister, Breathing bag, Breathing loop, Breathing tube (breathing apparatus), Breathing tube (in breathing apparatus), CCUBA, Closed circuit breathing apparatus, Closed circuit rebreather, Closed-circuit breathing apparatus, Closed-circuit breathng apparatus, Closed-circuit oxygen rebreather, Counterlung, Cryogenic rebreather, Loop rebreather, Oxygen rebreather, Pendulum rebreather, Pendulum system, Re-breather, Rebreather endurance, Rebreather loop, Rebreather scrubber, Rebreathers, Rebreathing, Scrubber endurance, Semi-closed circuit, Semiclosed rebreather, Superoxide scrubber.