Surface Equipment Connected With Diving and Underwater Work
- Diver down flag is flown warning others that divers are underwater
- Diving air compressor to fill diving cylinders with high pressure air or other gasses
- Surface supplied diving breathing gas supply system, including:
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- Low pressure breathing air compressors
- High pressure gas storage equipment
- Breathing gas distribution panels
- Diver's umbilicals
- Diver voice communications equipment
- Boats such as the rigid-hulled inflatable boat
- Echo sounder - a Sonar depth measuring and profiling device used for dive site location
- GPS receiver - for locating dive sites
- Proton magnetometer - for locating ferrous wrecks
- Marine VHF radio - for communicating with rescue services and other boats
- Saturation systems providing surface support for saturation diving.
- Diving chambers for surface decompression and treatment of decompression illness
- Diving support vessels
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Surface supply air panels. On the left for two divers, on the right for three divers
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A hard-wired diver communications unit mounted in a waterproof box for convenience of transport and protection.
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Personnel Transfer Capsule - a dry bell
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