OntheBeach - Diving Equipment - List of essential equipment including images you will want to be familiar with for your Diving Holiday.

1. Diving Equipment
Tools for your first
Diving Holiday

2. 1. Diving mask - A diving allows
scuba divers, free-divers, and
snorkelers to see clearly
underwater.
2. Swimfins - Scuba divers use fins to move
through water efficiently, as human feet
provide relatively poor thrust.
3. Dry suit, wetsuit or regular
swimsuit, depending on the water
temperature - Suits are designed to
provide thermal or protection to
the wearer while immersed in
water.
4. Buoyancy compensator or
buoyancy control device (BCD) - A
piece of diving equipment containing
a bladder which is worn by divers to
establish neutral buoyancy
underwater and positive buoyancy
on the surface, when needed.

3. 5. Diving weighting system or
weight belt - Divers wear
weighting systems, weight belts
or weights, generally made of
lead, to counteract the buoyancy
of other diving equipment, such
as diving suits and aluminium
diving cylinders.
6. Diving cylinder or scuba tank - A diving cylinder,
scuba tank or diving tank is a gas cylinder used to
store and transport high pressure breathing gas as
a component of a scuba set.
7. Diving regulator - A diving
regulator is a pressure regulator
used in scuba or surface supplied
diving equipment that reduces
pressurized breathing gas to
ambient pressure and delivers it to
the diver.

4. 8. Contents gauge or submersible pressure gauge (SPG)
- To monitor breathing gas pressure in
the diving cylinder, a diving regulator
usually has a high pressure hose
leading to a contents gauge (also called
pressure gauge).
9. Dive computer - A dive computer is a
device used by an underwater diver to
measure the time and depth of a dive so
that a safe ascent profile can be calculated
and displayed so that the diver can avoid
decompression sickness.
10. Surface marker buoy or other surface
detection aid - A surface marker buoy,
SMB or simply a blob is a buoy used by
scuba divers, with a line, to indicate the
diver's position to their surface safety
boat while the diver is underwater.
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