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unusual facts about scuba equipment



A.P.Valves

The scuba equipment manufacturer A.P.Valves or Ambient Pressure Diving is at Water-Ma-Trout in Helston in Cornwall in England.

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Ib Hoffman relates the story of how his son Benj, at the age of thirteen, designed and built SCUBA equipment, carefully calculating all the parameters, only to come close to dying on his first dive because he lacked a crucial piece of information about the physiology of breathing, one which all his knowledge of physics and engineering could not have predicted.


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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.