A frogman is someone who is trained in scuba diving or swimming underwater. The term often applies more to professional rather than recreational divers, especially those working in a tactical capacity
A SEAL Delivery Team member climbs aboard a delivery vehicle before launching from the back of the submarine USS Philadelphia.
Maritime law enforcement specialists at Regional Dive Locker East in Portsmouth, Va., prepare for a training dive
A 1945 British navy frogman with complete gear, including the Davis apparatus, a rebreather originally conceived in 1910 by Robert Davis as an emergency submarine escape set.
A French frogman with chest counterlung loop rebreather with two breathing tubes (model "Oxygers", 1957).
A rebreather is a breathing apparatus that absorbs the carbon dioxide of a user's exhaled breath to permit the rebreathing of the substantial unused oxygen content, and unused inert content when prese
Frogman
…other sensitive resources both in or nearby vulnerable waterways from potential threats or intrusions by frogmen. Frogmen on clandestine operations use rebreathers, as the bubbles released by open-circuit scuba would reveal them to surface lookouts and make a noise which hydrophones could easily detect. A few…
A fully closed circuit electronic rebreather (AP Diving Inspiration)
Oxygen rebreather KIP-8 interior showing the basic components
Russian firefighting rebreather KIP-8 exterior
Draeger Ray dive/surface valve with bite grip scuba mouthpiece, non-return valves, and breathing hoses