deep-sea diving
Exploring ocean depths
Deep-sea diving is underwater diving at significant depths, typically using specialized equipment like pressurized suits or diving bells rather than simple scuba gear.
The term suggests professional or industrial work—salvage operations, underwater construction, oil rig maintenance—rather than recreational diving: He spent twenty years in deep-sea diving before his joints gave out.
- rebreatherDevice recycling exhaled gas
- dive computerTracks depth and decompression
- pressure gaugeMeasures force on surfaces
- decompressionReduction of pressure
- the bendsNitrogen bubble illness
Jacques Cousteau · underwater exploration · submersible · life support system · nitrogen narcosis · dark water · hydrothermal vent · ocean floor · salvage operations · shipwreck site · seamount · underwater navigation · diver · scuba · decompression chamber · continental shelf · coral · murky
- divingscuba, dive mask, dive helmet, forward dive, back dive
- deep seaabyss, seabed, ocean floor, ocean depths, seafloor
deep-sea divingsnorkeling
Surface swimming with breathing tube
wading · floating · paddling · skin diving · treading water
deep-sea divingmountain climbing
Ascending peaks on foot
skydiving · hiking · hang gliding · mountaineering · cave exploration
deep-sea divingmountain climbing
Ascending peaks on foot
skydiving · aviation · hot air ballooning · paragliding · hang gliding