World record for deep sea diving?
Women: Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria set the women's world record for the high jump in 1987 at a height of 2.09 meters(6 feet, 10 1/4 inches). It is the longest standing world record in the history of the high jump.
Men: Javier Sotomayor of Cuba who jumped 2.45 meters on 27th July 1993
What pressure is the air stored insides a scuba tank?
Really as long as you want. You can store it at lower than 100 PSI for a long time, and you can store it in your basement. I really wouldn't store it with the cap off, but somehow you would need to mark it if you know it is almost at 100 PSI, because even the best divers cannot dive with 100 PSI safely. I wouldn't store it at full pressure, especially on a really hot day.
Do divers hear better underwater?
They can hear more, but not better.
Because of the density of water, vibrations are changed in pitch, and may be muffled and garbled. Since clarity is the most important factor in hearing, underwater communication is mostly done by hand signals instead.
On the other hand, sound moves more quickly underwater, and as a result you can hear from a greater distance. Things can be heard from a lot further away and/or are louder than in air. Unfortunately, because of the higher speed, and reflections from the bottom, sound direction is almost impossible to determine by ear.
What are Strengths and weaknesses of scuba diving?
This is a pretty poorly worded question!!
Advantages of Scuba over what?
One advantage is you dont drown!
Bit more info needed to answer this one!
Where can you get a PADI certification?
You can get a PADI certification at any PADI dive shop. The best thing to do is to contact a dive shop in your area and ask about their scuba certifications. If they do not offer PADI certification, they will likely know who in your area does. To find a local PADI dive center, just go to PADI.com and click on Start Diving, which will take you to the shop locater.
Is it ok to hold your breath in scuba?
There are a couple reasons why you shouldn't hold your breath. First off, holding your breath trying to conserve air could lead to passing out. Slow breathing also helps you relax. Also if you hold your breath at depth and head to the surface, the air in your lungs can expand causing an over expansion of your lungs. A very serious and sometimes life threatening injury.
Why are astronauts are trained in scuba diving?
It simulates weightlesness and using tools in a confined environment. Good training for Nauts.
How do wet suits keep you warm?
Keeping Warm Hands on a Ski Lift
Skiing is a fun activity to do in the winter, but what do you do about your hands when you are sitting on the ski lift and they are getting cold? There are a few things you can do to keep them warm.
One of the things you can do is to keep your hand close to your body. You can even tuck your hands and arms close to the body to keep the hands warm naturally. The body heat from the rest of the body will keep the hands warm. You can also wear a thick glove with an inner layer that will aid in keeping the hands warm.
Do not rub the hands when they get cold. Frostbite sets in very quickly in the hands because the capillaries are smaller. Gently massage the hands to increase the blood flow and raise the arms to about chest height. Bring the arms down close to the body to get the arms and hands warm again. This will allow the hands, as well as the arms, to remain warm while you are on the ski lift. As soon as you get off the ski lift, go inside the ski lodge to get warm near the fireplace.
What is buoyant force determined by?
Weight of the object - weight of fluid it displaces.
If the fluid is water and you are using a pure solid, not hollow, substance this is easily found by subtracting the densities of the two and multiply by its volume.
Can you breathe underwater with a mouse?
If the mouse has been certified to go scuba diving and passed a 5 dive on 2 separate days, of course it can dive. Finding a tank that little, might be a problem.
How much does water pressure increase per vertical foot?
The pressure increase is dependent on density of the water. Pure water at 60F has about 27.78 inches of water column (INWC or INWG) per psi or approximately 0.43197 psi/ft. This is from memory; but it should be close.
Fresh water: 0.43 psi per foot Sea water: 0.44 psi per foot.
So, for each additional 10 feet of depth, figure about 4.3 to 4.4 psi increase in pressure.
You can calculate this yourself by using the fact that fresh water weighs about 62.4 pounds per cubic foot (pcf) and sea water weighs about 64 pcf. Divide those numbers by 144 (the "footprint" of one cubic foot, 12 x 12) and there you go.
It's interesting to note that this pressure is independent of volume or expanse. i.e. the water pressure behind a fresh water dam at 100 feet deep is about 43.3 psi regardless of whether the dam's reservoir is 25 miles long or 10 feet long. Depth and density are the only relevant parameters needed to determine pressure.
Dive pressure, however, would be the water pressure of 43.3 plus the air pressure above the water. So the net pressure on your ears & body would be 43.3 plus 14.7 (one atmosphere)totalling 58 psi,or about 4 atmosphers. That's four times our normal experience. Worthy of careful consideration.
Regarding diving - internal pressure inside ones body EQUALS the atmospheric pressure (14.7 psi). [Otherwise we would be squashed by the athmospere.]
Therefore, the net result is still dependent on depth ONLY - in example given it would be around 2.95 atmospheres.
The pressure of freshwater increases by 1 atm for each 34 ft of depth. The pressure of seawater increases by 1 atm for each 33 ft of depth. If surface pressure is 0.97 atm, simply add that pressure to the pressure of the water.
For seawater, you are exactly 1 atm below the surface... So:
1 atm + 0.97 atm = 1.97 atm
For freshwater, divide 33 by 34 to get the fraction of an atmosphere you're adding to your surface pressure:
33/34 * 1 = 0.97 atm
Then add that number to the surface pressure:
0.97 + 0.97 = 0.94 atm
Where can you get scuba tanks refilled other than at scuba shops?
You could buy your own portable diving compressor, my dive buddy has one, there not silly expensive .
You must get fills from a compressor designed for diving (breathing) as the air is filtered and moisture removed.
Why do scuba diver's use a snorkel mask?
During the dive your nose will want to naturally breath in, or take in water so having the nose under the mask helps that NOT to happen. Also if you take on water inside your mask and your nose is not within it will be VERY difficult for you to empty the water.
To empty water from your scuba mask at depth you simply pull it out from your face and breath out through your nose and this causes the water to pour out. How would you do this if your nose is not enclosed within the mask?
And also so that water doesn't go up your nose. And mouth (it doesn't taste good).
Table
PG
BSAC
D
Bühlmann
E
DCIEM
D
NAUI
H
NASE
H
Old Navy
H
New Navy
G
PADI/DSAT RDP
M
SSI
H
Life and death abound beneath the waves. Some find beauty beyond imagination. Others find the detritus of the human experience. It often depends upon just what it is they are looking for. Jacques Cousteau was justifiably astounded by what he'd found.
What is a pressure foot lifter?
A pressure foot is used to measure air pressure inside a tank. This means that every square foot of the tank, there is a pound of pressure.
To make the ball go from right to left, kick the bottom right handside of the ball with the inside of your right foot. To make the ball go from left to right, hit the bottom left handside of the ball with the outside of your right foot. And the other way round for your left foot. The harder you hit it, the more it will bend.
Why would divers dive in very deep waters?
The water pressure is too great. It doubles with every 33 feet of depth. The maximum depth for conventional scuba diving is about 40 m (130 ft), technical divers with specialized gas mixtures may work down to 110 m (350 ft). The depth of the deep sea can be as far down as 4,000 m (14,000 ft)
Can you get decompression sickness or the bends from breathing nitrogen?
From scuba diving? ... yes since that is what causes decompression sickness. But if your question is whether you can get DCI from just changing your gas at the surface from air (21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen) to a nitrogen enriched air (i.e. 15% oxygen and 85% nitrogen) without diving or ascending to altitude? ... then the answer would be no. The nitrogen increase is not enough to result in decompression sickness ... but you would would start feeling hypoxic from the lack of oxygen the more you lower the oxygen concentration.
Pearls are formed inside oysters, and oysters grow underwater. If you want to find "natural" pearls (that is, those that have developed w/o human intervention) you need a diver to collect the oysters for you before you crack them open to see if there's a pearl inside.
What happens when a scuba diver resurfaces too quickly?
Get the Bends They get the bends; Nitrogen Narcosis. Nitrogen bubbles form in the blood, which is a least painful and at worst, fatal
INCORRECT - Nitrogen Narcosis is brought about by breathing Nitrogen at depth and is resolved by coming up to a shallower depth. The rest of the answer is essentially correct though
Why do deep-sea divers have to wear a strong diving suit?
Deep sea divers wear diving suits in order to prevent their body by the harmful effects of maximum pressure at greater depth in seas and ocean.