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Diving helmet

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A Diving helmet is a rigid head enclosure with a breathing gas supply used in underwater diving. [1]

36 relations: Augustus Siebe, Breathing gas, British Army, Canvas, Charles Anthony Deane, Civil engineering, Corset, Diver rescue, Diving helmet, Diving regulator, Diving suit, Drowning, Dry suit, Full face diving mask, Gene Hobbs, Hard hat, Heliox, HMS Royal George (1756), John Deane (inventor), Marine salvage, Mary Rose, Professional diving, Recreational diving, Scuba set, Simon Mitchell, Soviet Union, Spithead, Standard diving dress, Sulfur mustard, Surface-supplied diving, Television, Unconsciousness, Underwater, Valve, Whitstable, World War I.

Augustus Siebe

Christian Augustus Siebe (known by his middle name; 1788 – 15 April 1872) was a German-born British engineer chiefly known for his contributions to diving equipment.

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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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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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Canvas

Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other items for which sturdiness is required.

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Charles Anthony Deane

Charles Anthony Deane (1796–1848) was a pioneering diving engineer.

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Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, and railways.

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Corset

A corset is a garment worn to hold and train the torso into a desired shape, traditionally a smaller waist or larger bottom, for aesthetic or medical purposes (either for the duration of wearing it or with a more lasting effect).

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Diver rescue

Beaching a casualty while providing artificial respiration Diver rescue, following an accident, is the process of avoiding or limiting further exposure to diving hazards and bringing a diver to a place of safety.

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Diving helmet

A Diving helmet is a rigid head enclosure with a breathing gas supply used in underwater diving.

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Diving regulator

A diving regulator is a pressure regulator that reduces pressurized breathing gas to ambient pressure and delivers it to the diver.

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Diving suit

A diving suit is a garment or device designed to protect a diver from the underwater environment.

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Drowning

Drowning is defined as respiratory impairment from being in or under a liquid.

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Dry suit

A dry suit or drysuit provides the wearer with environmental protection by way of thermal insulation and exclusion of water, and is worn by divers, boaters, water sports enthusiasts, and others who work or play in or near cold or contaminated water.

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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.

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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.

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Hard hat

A hard hat is a type of helmet predominantly used in workplace environments such as industrial or construction sites to protect the head from injury due to falling objects, impact with other objects, debris, rain, and electric shock.

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Heliox

Heliox is a breathing gas composed of a mixture of helium (He) and oxygen (O2).

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HMS Royal George (1756)

HMS Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched on 18 February 1756.

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John Deane (inventor)

John Deane (1800–1884; known as The Infernal Diver), with his brother Charles, invented the diving helmet and performed diving operations at the wreck of the Mary Rose.

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Marine salvage

Marine salvage is the process of recovering a ship and its cargo after a shipwreck or other maritime casualty.

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Mary Rose

The Mary Rose is a carrack-type warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII.

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Professional diving

Professional diving is diving where the divers are paid for their work.

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Recreational diving

Recreational diving or sport diving is diving for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment, usually when using scuba equipment.

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Scuba set

A scuba set is any breathing apparatus that is carried entirely by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas at the ambient pressure.

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Simon Mitchell

Simon Mitchell (born 1958) is a New Zealand physician specialising in occupational medicine, hyperbaric medicine and anesthesiology.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Spithead

Spithead is an area of the Solent and a roadstead off Gilkicker Point in Hampshire, England.

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Standard diving dress

Standard diving dress (also known as hard-hat or copper hat equipment, or heavy gear) is a type of diving suit that was formerly used for all 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.

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Sulfur mustard

Sulfur mustard, commonly known as mustard gas, is the prototypical substance of the sulfur-based family of cytotoxic and vesicant chemical warfare agents known as the sulfur mustards which have the ability to form large blisters on exposed skin and in the lungs.

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Surface-supplied diving

Surface-supplied diving is diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas using a diver's umbilical from the surface, either from the shore or from a diving support vessel, sometimes indirectly via a diving bell.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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Unconsciousness

Unconsciousness is a state which occurs when the ability to maintain an awareness of self and environment is lost.

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Underwater

Underwater refers to the region below the surface of water where the water exists in a natural feature (called a body of water) such as an ocean, sea, lake, pond, or river.

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Valve

A valve is a device that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways.

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Whitstable

Whitstable (locally) is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in south-east England, 5 miles (8km) north of Canterbury and 2 miles (3km) west of Herne Bay.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_helmet

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