Buddy diving
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Buddy diving is the use of the buddy system by scuba divers and freedivers. It is a set of safety procedures intended to improve the chances of avoiding or surviving accidents in or under water by hav
A Navy buddy diver team checking their gauges together
Scuba divers practicing buddy breathing technique during formal training
The long hose - note looping about divers neck
The recreational octopus - note color and placement in "Golden Triangle"
Bailout bottle
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A bailout bottle 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. A
Buddy diving
…divers, it is only considered acceptably safe if the diver is totally self-sufficient. This usually entails a completely redundant gas supply, such as a bailout bottle or isolation-manifolded twin cylinders, and the competence to use it in an emergency. Self-rescue is not possible in some cases, such as severe cases…
Filling a spare air bailout cylinder
Solo scuba diver with sling mounted 5.5 litre (40 cu ft) aluminium bailout cylinder
A pony bottle strapped to the back cylinder
Surface-supplied divers riding a diving stage. Each carries a scuba bailout cylinder on his back.