How much money does a scuba diving photographer make per year?
Most scuba diving photographers don't make a lot of money at it. I have been scuba diving all around the world and have been diving with lots of photographers and have a lot of friends that consider themselves to be underwater photographers. Every once in a while someone will have a photo published in a magazine but not very often. Some people put together books of their photographs and try to sell them. Most people take the photos for their own person use as there really isn't a good way to make money as a professional underwater photographer. Some people have made money going for a dive and taking photos of other divers and such but plan on eating a lot of Spam if you plan on living on the earnings of underwater photography. There are too many other people doing the same exact thing.
Recreational divers usually don't go any deeper than 60ft. The recreational dive limit is 130ft.
A submerged swim is any swim done under the surface of the water. During early dive training in a pool the students are often asked to do a submerged swim from one side to another and gradually, that same swim is from end to end (longer distance). The idea is to build lung capacity and stamina.
What are the bends when scuba diving?
When you are diving the nitrogen in an air supply dissolves into the blood and tissues due to the high pressure. When you start to come up the pressure decreases and the nitrogen comes out or "undissolves" (like fizz in a bottle of pop) and forms bubbles in your blood vessels and tissues. This stops the blood from flowing and forms bubbles, which expand the vessels, causing a painful condition known as "the bends". Bends can also happen if divers fly immediately after diving. The pressure in airplanes is even less than that at sea level.
== == The first equipment used that actually allowed breathing underwater was invented in 1620 by Englishman Cornelius Drebbel. Designed for use in an oar-powered submarine, it used heated saltpeter to emit oxygen. The resulting potassium hydroxide absorbed the carbon dioxide produced during respiration. This first crude "rebreather" went generally undeveloped for two centuries.
Inventions in 1853 by Belgian T. Schwann, in 1878 by Englishman Henry Fleuss and in 1900 by Englishman Sir Robert Davis, were some of the earliest working self contained breathing gear. These systems were "closed-circuit" designs, meaning that the exhaled gas is retained in the system and made breathable again. They all shared the common trait of using pure oxygen as the breathing gas. This limited their use to very shallow water (<30 feet) due to the toxic effects of oxygen at increased partial pressures. These designs were primarily used, in fact, in rescue and mine safety applications until the 1930s when Italian sport spearfirshermen began to use them for spearfishing.
World War II saw the first military application of oxygen-based rebreather-type SCUBA equipment, first by the Italians using modified spearfishing units and then by the English using designs based on captured Italian units. The German firm Draeger, which had developed a rebreather for mine rescue in 1907, supplied oxygen rebreathers to the German military. All of these oxygen-based systems were limited to shallow water demolition and combat swimmer delivery. American Christian Lambertson developed this concept into the first truly modern military rebreathers beginning in 1939. Lambert's devices were the first to actually be called SCUBA, the wartime code name for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.
As far as most divers are concerned, however, the real breakthrough in SCUBA came in in 1943 by Frenchmen Emile Gagnan and Jacques Yves Cousteau. Modifying a welding regulator into a pressure-sensitive demand regulator and coupling it with three air-filled welding gas cylinders, they invented the first open-circuit SCUBA gear. Open-circuit SCUBA allows the exhaled gas to escape into the water as waste gas. The two Frenchmen eventually sold this equpment under the name "Aqua-Lung" and started a company which became U.S. Divers and is now known as Aqualung International.
The Gagnan/Costeau invention of open-circuit (non-rebreathing) SCUBA using air as the breathing gas allowed the first widespread diving by civilians. The use of air allowed diving to depths far in excess of those allowed by pure oxygen and the open circuit design could be used safely with relatively little training. The Aqua-Lung was the key invention that opened up the oceans to generations of recreational divers.
The first Aqua-Lung designs used a single regulator mounted at the tank valve which delivered air and exhaust gases via two large-diameter corrugated over-the-shoulder breathing hoses very similar to those used by rebreathers. A generation of early SCUBA divers grew up watching actor Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson using double hose Aqua-Lung regulators on television's Sea Hunt program. The first modern two stage, single hose regulator was manufactured and distributed by Divers Supply in Wilmington California in the early 1950s. This design, an offshoot of surface supplied commercial gear, uses a first stage regulator mounted at the tank valve delivering air to mouthpiece-mounted second stage via a small-diameter intermediate-pressure (140 psi) hose. Today, virtually all modern open-circuit SCUBA gear uses this design, though Aqualung did market a "modern" double hose Mistral model in 2005 and 2006.
Why oxygen tank is used for scuba diving?
To fit more in. If it was at 1 atmosphere of pressure it would be like breathing out of a bag. (You would run out of air in about 5 or 6 breaths) Addendum: I should add that it's not oxygen in SCUBA tanks; it's air. Oxygen when delivered under pressure, can cause convulsions. You'll never see a diver with oxygen in her tanks.
The above is correct, however oxygen is used by technical divers during decompression at very shallow depths. But this is not what is in the divers main gas or bottom gas.
Why cant scuba divers go 300 feet under the water?
Nothing other than training. Technical diver do it all the time, but recreational divers are limited by either air or nitrox which is narcotic at 40 meters (131 feet) and a very short time limit where technical divers can be trained in using helium as well as how to perform decompression stops.
What is it called when you are boating and you see a red flag with a white diagonal stripe?
A float with a red flag with a diagonal white stripe is the symbol for "Divers Down"; Scuba divers are underwater in this area. Be cautious in the area of the float, because the divers will surface nearby.
What limits should be established prior to every scuba dive?
Depending on how deep you dive, the maximum amount of time for the planned deepness of the next should be worked out well in advance, to account for the reduction of nitrogen levels.
What flag indicates scuba diving or snorkeling activity?
There are 2 flags, either of which can be used.
The international "A" flag which is white and Blue
The red-and-white dive flag
Where are you if you are scuba diving off your boat south of Alabama and east of mexixo?
The Gulf of Mexico is a popular place for scuba diving. More and more artificial reefs are being placed, attracting more fish and coral growths.
How much does it cost 2 go scuba diving in Madagascar?
It would cost a lot of money I'm not sure exactly how much but about £25,000.000 for a month.
Because if you try to dive to the bottom of the ocean without an oxygen cylinder, you would have to surface again before you even get all the way down. Furthermore if you did manage to get to the bottom you would have to swim back to the surface for air and if you cant get to the surface in time you could very well drown by water filling up your lungs.
Not a good way to try and get girls, you'll have more chance taling to them about their and your interests.
How old do you have to be to get certified to dive?
PADI offers SCUBA classes for children as young as 8 years old (restrictions apply). See the attached related link for additional information.
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When was an aqualung invented?
1943
Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invented the modern demand regulator and an improved autonomous diving suit. In 1942, redesigned a car regulator and invented a demand regulator that would automatically fresh air when a diver breathed. A year later in 1943, Cousteau and Gagnan began selling the Aqua-Lung.
How does fluid pressure change with depth?
Pressure changes very easily. The deeper that you go there is more pressure. For example, when you dive into the ocean, there is not only a whole sky-worth of air pushing down on you, but you are also being pressured by the tons of water above you. On the flipside, when you travel to a greater altitude, pressure decreases. For exapmle, when you climb a mountian, there is less air above you pushing down on you then there is on sealevel.
Do both gases and exert a buoyant force?
Gas expands while water doesn't if you have 8oz of water in a 10oz container then pour it in a 16oz the water will stay 8 oz