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2 unusual facts about scuba


Scuba

Scuba diving, the use of a self-contained breathing set to stay underwater for periods of time

Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array, an instrument used on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope


ActionQuest

ActionQuest runs sailing and SCUBA training programs throughout the Caribbean, Australia, Ecuador and the Galapagos, Tahiti, and the Mediterranean.

Astronaut training

This training phase also focuses on skills such as robotic operations, rendezvous and docking, Russian language courses, human behavior and performance, and finally a PADI open water scuba diving course.

Bataan Military Academy

BMA offers several that meet this requirement, including but not limited to: Recruit Training, Petty Officer Leadership Academy (POLA), SeaBee Infantry Combat and Survival training, Master-at-Arms training, and SCUBA training and certification.

Bay of Plenty Polytechnic

In addition to the core programme, students receive full SCUBA training up to PADI Divemaster or Open Water Instructor, as well as with certifications including NZ Coastguard Boatmaster, Restricted Radio Telephone Operator's Certificate, NZ Red Cross First Aid Provider and DAN Oxygen Provider.

Black coral

They are also found in rare dark shallow water areas such as New Zealand's Milford Sound where they can be viewed from an underwater observatory or via SCUBA diving.

CMAS

Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques, the international umbrella organization for underwater sports, both competitive (e.g. freediving, underwater hockey) and recreational (e.g. scuba diving, snorkelling)

Economy of the Federated States of Micronesia

Visitor attractions include scuba diving in each state, World War II battle sites, and the ancient ruined city of Nan Madol on Pohnpei.

Eileen Chesis

Her only television work as an adult was in 1975, where she played "Scuba Duba" in the live-action super-hero series The Secrets of Isis.

Great Blue Hole

This is a popular spot among recreational scuba divers who are lured by the opportunity to dive in sometimes crystal-clear water and meet several species of fish, including Midnight Parrotfish, Caribbean reef shark, and other juvenile fish species .

If I Could Make a Living

In a telephone interview with Tulsa World Walker said, "I approached the second album a little bit differently from the first one, because it's kind of like scuba diving, the first time, you're down there at the bottom, and it's a little bit dirty, so you have to feel around a lot before you can find the treasure. For the second one, the water was a little more clear."

James F. Cahill

At the end of his active naval career, Cahill transferred to the Virgin Islands to participate in the filming of the motion picture "Frogmen" and took an active lead in developing the commercial and recreational scuba diving industry.

In the 1950s, Cahill founded the Hui Kai scuba training camp on Children's Island in Salem, MA along with his business partner Buster Crabbe, the then well-known original Tarzan actor.

James Honeyborne

A keen scuba diver and photographer, he has also made a series of documentaries with world champion freediver, Tanya Streeter.

John Everingham

Everingham gained international fame when he sought asylum for his Laotian wife, Keo Sirisomphone, by swimming her out of Laos under the Mekong River near Vientiane using scuba equipment.

Julie Andersen

Andersen is also a lifelong scuba and free diver, serving as an ambassador for SCUBAPRO and SubGear, and spends much of her time swimming with sharks around the world.

Karkador

This album is based around Hirasawa's dreams, and follows the New Wave precedent set by SCUBA.

Krabi

Yet over 80 smaller islands such as Lanta islands, or Koh Lanta, Phi Phi islands - made famous as the ideal location for adventurers, yachtsmen, scuba-divers, snorkelers and day-trippers from Phuket.

MacroMind

Mouse Practice (1992) – a tutorial on how to use the mouse where the user controls a scuba diver

Maria Cornejo

She described her Spring 2013 ready-to-wear show as "Future-primitive", with influences including Giacomo Balla, street art, woodblock printing, crop-circles, traditional tailoring, and scuba gear.

Michael Rowan-Robinson

Rowan-Robinson's research interests include: The Spitzer Space Telescope SWIRE project; The European Large Area ISO Survey; The UK SCUBA Survey (see James Clerk Maxwell Telescope); The IRAS PSC Redshift Survey ; the Herschel Space Observatory SPIRE instrument; the Planck Surveyor HFI.

MS Mikhail Lermontov

It is popular with Scuba divers and the site is served by local dive shops in Picton and Kaikoura.

Norman Weissman

His theatrical credits include writing and editing Scuba with Lloyd Bridges, an Avco-Embassy-CineFilm release; writing and production managing Pepi Columbus with Joseph Meinrad, produced by Ernest Heusermann of the Stadt Theater, Vienna; and writing and directing film segments for the CBS Will Rogers, Jr. TV morning show.

Octopus Hole

Similar to the close-by Sund Rock conservation area, Octopus Hole is very popular with Scuba divers who enjoy diving the walls associated with the site to view various underwater creatures, including but not limited to Lingcod, Giant Pacific Octopus, Wolf Eel, sea cucumber, and nudibranch.

Olavsvern

On 14 March 2005, an accident in a scuba exercise inside the base led to the death of SBS commander Lieutenant Colonel Richard van der Horst.

Open Water

Open Water Diver, a scuba diving certification level provided by several training agencies

Prahlad Kakkar

An avid scuba diver, in 1995 he set up 'Lacadives', a scuba-diving school, along with his wife Mitali Kakar at Kadmat Island, in collaboration with the Govt.

Prince Talal bin Muhammad

Prince Talal’s sporting interests include Polo, Furusiyya (traditional Arab/Islamic military horsemanship), Scuba Diving (PADI Advanced Diver Rating) Motorcycling, and Alpine Skiing.

Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt

Angelica's Temple of Gloom which has an Aztec setting, Pirate Treasure Hunt where the babies scuba dive under water to find hidden treasure near a sunken ship, and Reptar Rally which is the only stage that changes the babies into dinosaurs (resembling the form of Reptar).

Side mount

Sidemount or side mount is a configuration of breathing gas cylinders carried by scuba divers, and a shortened form of Sidemount diving or Side mount diving

Star Model Z84

Originally manufactured for use by scuba divers, the Z-84 could be used right out of the water without and need to drain the working parts or magazine.

Ted Eldred

The Porpoise single hose SCUBA found its initial international praise in Arthur C. Clarke's 1955 book Coast of Coral.

The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

The series is similar to the book, and focuses on the adventures of a newspaper proofreader who through years of secret practice has gained James Bond-like skills in many forms of physical combat, shooting, and in activities as diverse as rock climbing and scuba diving.

The Wonderful Worlds of Wally McDoogle

Wally does many crazy things such as become a secret agent in My Life as a Screaming Skydiver, become the sewage director for his hometown in My Life as Polluted Pond Scum, scuba dive in My Life as a Torpedo Test Target, dance as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker in My Life as a Blundering Ballerina, travel through time in My Life as a Toasted Time Traveler, and stars in two movies in My Life as Alien Monster Bait and My Life as a Bigfoot Breathmint.

United States Air Force Special Tactics Officer

Trainees become combat divers, learning to use scuba and closed circuit diving equipment to covertly infiltrate denied areas.

Walter Gear

Having completed a BSc and PhD at Queen Mary, University of London, Gear worked at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh where he led the construction of the SCUBA camera for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii.

Yanik Silver

The club has scuba dived off Iceland's Silfra Ravine, been off-road racing with Jesse James, annually spend a week at Richard Branson's Necker Island, had simulation dogfights in Word War II-era planes, and featured sessions with Tony Hawk, John Paul DeJoria, James, and Branson.


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