Wreck diving is recreational diving where the wreckage of ships, aircraft and other artificial structures are explored. The term is used mainly by recreational...
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SS Andrea Doria (redirect from The Everest of Wreck Diving)
Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria ISBN 0-74-340063-1, by Kevin F. McMurray recounts diving the wreck and some of the incidents that...
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Sinking ships for wreck diving sites is the practice of scuttling old ships to produce artificial reefs suitable for wreck diving, to benefit from commercial...
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safety of breathable atmosphere at the surface. Cave diving, wreck diving, ice diving and diving inside or under other natural or artificial underwater...
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popular amongst scuba divers for wreck diving, arranged by geographical distribution. Ireland Alondra – English steamer wrecked off Ireland, Baltimore, County...
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Byford Dolphin (redirect from Byford Dolphin diving bell accident)
Sea, four divers were in a diving chamber system on the rig's deck that was connected by a trunk (a short passage) to a diving bell. The divers were Edwin...
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The wreck of British ocean liner RMS Titanic lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet (3,800 metres; 2,100 fathoms), about 325 nautical miles (600 kilometres)...
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SS Thistlegorm (category Wreck diving sites)
German bomber aircraft in the Red Sea in 1941. Her wreck near Ras Muhammad is now a well-known diving site. J.L. Thompson and Sons built Thistlegorm in...
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live-boat diving). There are a range of specialised procedures for boat diving, which include water entry and exit, avoiding injury by the dive boat, and...
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Distance line (redirect from Wreck line)
A distance line, penetration line, cave line, wreck line or guide line is an item of diving equipment used by scuba divers as a means of returning to...
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