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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. Scuba is an anacronym
Diving with a recreational open-circuit scuba set
Classic twin-hose Cousteau-type aqualung
A single-hose regulator with 2nd stage, gauges, BC attachment, and dry suit hose mounted on a cylinder
Scuba harness with backplate and back mounted "wing" buoyancy compensator Regulator first stage Cylinder valve Shoulder straps Buoyancy compensator bladder Buoyancy compensator relief and lower manual dump valve DV/Regulator second stages (primary and “octopus”) Console (submersible pressure gauge, depth gauge & compass) Dry-suit inflator hose Backplate Buoyancy compensator inflator hose and inflation valve Buoyancy compensator mouthpiece and manual dump valve
A self-contained breathing apparatus 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. They a
Scuba set
…commercially practical scuba rebreather was designed and built by the diving engineer Henry Fleuss in 1878, while working for Siebe Gorman in London. His self contained breathing apparatus consisted of a rubber mask connected to a breathing bag, with an estimated 50–60% oxygen supplied from a copper tank and carbon dioxide scrubbed by…
Self contained breathing apparatus
1842 sketch of the Deane brothers' diving helmet, the first surface-supplied diving dress equipment in the world.
Siebe Gorman Savox in a coal mining museum
SCBA packs carried on a rack in a firetruck