Sports Definitions

Scuba Diving

  1. A-clamp
  2. A-flag
  3. Alveoli
  4. Anoxia
  5. Assisted ascent
  6. Atmospheric pressure
  7. Bends
  8. Bezel
  9. Bottom time
  10. Breath hold dive
  11. Buddy
  12. Buoyancy compensator
  13. Buoyancy trim
  14. Buoyant ascent
  15. Compressed air
  16. Cracking
  17. Cylinder
  18. Dead air space
  19. Decompression illness
  20. Decompression stop
  21. Decompression tables
  22. Depth gauge
  23. Ditching
  24. Drift diving
  25. Dump valve
  26. Ear clearing
  27. Expired Air Resuscitation (EAR)
  28. First stage
  29. Free ascent
  30. Freeboard
  31. Gunwale
  32. Hard-hat divers
  33. Hydrostatic pressure
  34. Log book
  35. Negative buoyancy
  36. Neutral buoyancy
  37. Nitrox
  38. No-stop dive
  39. O-ring
  40. Octopus rig
  41. Positive buoyancy
  42. Purge valve
  43. Recompression chamber (RCC)
  44. SCUBA
  45. Scuba Diving
  46. Second stage
  47. Skin diving
  48. Staged decompression
  49. Surface marker buoy
  50. Tender
  51. Venting
  52. Weight belt
  53. Wet suit