Scuba skills
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Scuba skills are skills required to dive safely using self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, known as a scuba set. Most of these skills are relevant to both open-circuit scuba and rebreather s
The instructor monitors a trainee practicing diving skills.
Assembly of the scuba set – connection of the regulator to the cylinder valve
Pre-dive check before a surf entry
Stride entry or front step entry from a low dockside
Solo diving
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Solo diving is the practice of self-sufficient underwater diving without a "dive buddy", particularly with reference to scuba diving, but the term is also applied to freediving. Professionally, solo d
Scuba skills
…reserve). It also considers the possibility of an assisted ascent, where the diver shares air with another diver. Gas management becomes more complex when solo diving, decompression diving, penetration diving, or diving with more than one gas mixture. A submersible pressure gauge indicates the remaining gas pressure…
Solo diver surveying a dive site. The bailout cylinder can be seen slung at the diver's left side
An underwater photographer intent on the composition of his next photograph