Table of contents

1 Equipment worn by SCUBA divers 2 Surface Detection Aids 3 Equipment Manufacturers

Equipment worn by SCUBA divers

• Aqualung

• Buoyancy Compensator, Buoyancy Control Device, BCD or BC

• Compass

• Depth Gauge

• Dive Computer

• Diving Suit including dry suit, wet suit and skin

• Diving regulator including first stage, demand valve and contents guage

• Fins

• Knife

• Mask, allows the diver to see clearly underwater.

• • full face - often worn by commercial divers they can speak inside the mask allowing communications equipment to be installed in the mask. The diver in the first photo is wearing an AGA full face mask

A diver in a pool wearing a full face mask from AGA and a twin 6 liter 300 bar tank rig.

• • hard hat - part of the old fashioned standard diving dress

• Rebreather

• Snorkel

• Watch

• Weighting system
  • A nylon web 2" wide that holds the weights (some belts can be filled with lead pellets as weights.) and features a quick release buckle. Belts come in many color with yellow or black being the most popular.
  • Weights - used to offset positive buoyancy.
    • Lead is the most common material used
    • 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 pound blocks with holes to thread the weight belt through
    • Many modern BCD's have weight pockets with quick release buckles

• Surface Marker Buoy or Decompression Buoy (Delayed SMBs)
• Red or yellow collapsible flag - high visibility, robust, bungeed to cylinder
• Torch - rechargeable are generally best
• Whistle - cheap, will only be heard by people far from engine noise
• Strobe - needs long lasting batteries
• High pressure whistle - expensive but they are effective
• Orange water die - for helicopters
• Compact Disk - makes a good, safe mirror of sunlight or searchlights
• Red flares - for helicopters and lifeboats
• EPIRB (Electronic Position Indicating Radio Beacon)