Scuba gas planning is the aspect of dive planning and of gas management which deals with the calculation or estimation of the amounts and mixtures of gases...

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and...

breathing gas at the ambient pressure. Scuba is an anacronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Although strictly speaking the scuba set is...

Gas blending for scuba diving (or gas mixing) is the filling of diving cylinders with non-air breathing gases such as nitrox, trimix and heliox. Use of...

breathing gas in an emergency. Thus, the surface-supplied diver is less likely to have an "out-of-air" emergency than a scuba diver using a single gas supply...

scientific or commercial diving are small, and on scuba, deaths are usually associated with poor gas management, poor buoyancy control, equipment misuse...

is planned, the "rock bottom" gas planning procedure is more versatile but more complex to calculate. Other rules of thumb for scuba gas planning exist...

the surface, or the breathing gas is reclaimed, processed and re-used. Scuba gas planning is the aspect of dive planning which deals with the calculation...

managed. A similar emergency occurs when a scuba diver accumulates more decompression obligation than the available gas endurance for decompression. This can...

Scuba gas management is the aspect of scuba diving which includes the gas planning, blending, filling, analysing, marking, storage, and transportation...