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Welcome to WikiProject Underwater diving. This is a collaboration of Wikipedians dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of underwater diving in all modes and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, you are welcome to join the project, or just work on any related articles. The talk page is a place to discuss the project, and to notify page watchers of anything which may affect the project and its work. The to-do list below lists some of the work still to be done.

The project was originally called WikiProject Scuba diving, but the scope has expanded to be inclusive of all modes of underwater diving, so we changed the name to be more welcoming to other modes of diver.

WikiProject Underwater diving does not have many active members, and this page is not updated very often, but there are a few members plugging away at improving and creating articles, so if you are interested, go ahead and do it. Join the project if you like. If you want assistance, or have some useful comments or requests, particularly about errors or content which you think we should add, leave a message on the project talk page.

For travel guides to recreational dive sites of the world, try the Wikivoyage articles on scuba diving

Improve Wikipedia's coverage on Underwater diving articles, including Scuba diving, surface-supplied diving, freediving, snorkelling and related topics:

• Get all project articles with Top or High importance rating up to Good Article class.
• Cover the entire scope of the project with useful articles.
• Provide navigational aids so that readers can find the article they need.
  • Maintain the Outline of underwater diving and Index of underwater diving and any subsets of these that may be appropriate
  • Manintain and extend Portal:Underwater diving and it's subportals to provide the best reasonably practicable introduction and guide to Wikipedia coverage of Underwater diving.
• Provide short descriptions for all underwater diving articles

Short descriptions progress

Out of Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",". eligible articles in the 3,035 Category:WikiProject SCUBA articles, (2215 have a short description. (18:03, 14 August 2023 (UTC))

• Category:WikiProject SCUBA articles 3,035

These articles should usually have a short description:

• Category:B-Class SCUBA articles‎ 171 (166) 19 April 2023 (those without do not need sd)
• Category:C-Class SCUBA articles‎ 455 (446) 10 August 2023 (those without do not need sd)
• Category:FA-Class SCUBA articles‎ 8 (8) 19 April 2023
• Category:FL-Class SCUBA articles‎ 1 (1) 19 April 2023
• Category:GA-Class SCUBA articles‎ 47 (47) 10 August 2023
• Category:List-Class SCUBA articles‎ 51 (29) 19 April 2023 (those without do not need sd)
• Category:Portal-Class SCUBA articles‎ 1 (1)
• Category:Redirect-Class SCUBA articles‎ 1003 (757) 14 August 2023 (those without do not need sd)
• Category:Start-Class SCUBA articles‎ 746 (728) 14 30 September 2023 (those without do not need sd)
• Category:Stub-Class SCUBA articles‎ 272 (286) 14 30 September 2023 (those without do not need sd)
• Category:Draft-Class SCUBA articles‎ 6 (3) 7 Jan 2023
• Category:Unassessed SCUBA articles‎ 0 (0) 6 Jan 2023

These articles should not usually need a short description, but if they do have one it is fine:

• Category:SCUBA articles by quality‎ 2 (0)
• Category:Category-Class SCUBA articles‎ 220 (176)
• Category:Disambig-Class SCUBA articles‎ 13 (12)
• Category:FM-Class SCUBA articles‎ 1 (0)
• Category:NA-Class SCUBA articles‎ 2 (0)
• Category:Project-Class SCUBA articles‎ 3 (1)
• Category:Template-Class SCUBA articles‎ 33 (0)

• If you wear it, breathe it, use it, or do it while you're underwater, then it probably falls under the scope of this project.
• If you have to learn about it to become a diver, or do it or operate it in support of a diving operation, then it also probably falls under the scope of the project.
• Freediving, snorkelling and the underwater discipinesof the competitive sport of finswimming are included in the scope, as are scuba diving, surface-supplied diving, saturation diving, diving in atmospheric diving suits, underwater habitats, remotely operated underwater vehicles and autonomous underwater vehicles. Diving by non-human organisms is not, except peripherally where the physiology is of interest. Nor is the sport of jumping off high places into the water (Diving (sport)). The project name was originally WikiProject Scuba diving, but was changed to be more representative of the scope as defined.
• Diving equipment, diving support equipment, and equipment designed, manufactured or marketed specifically for use by divers is in scope, other equipment commonly used by divers may be in scope.
• Deep-submergence rescue vehicles, research submersibles and bathyspheres are included. Surface vessels which support this equipment, and military submarines (warships), are currently not included.
• Biographies of people who are notable for actual diving activities (including notable diving incidents), or who have contributed notably to the science or technology of diving usually also fall within scope. People who are notable for reasons not connected with diving, and are incidentally divers, are usually out of scope. Underwater scientific and archaeological sites repeatedly visited by divers may be in scope, generally when this is mentioned in the article.
• Places which are used as recreational dive sites are in scope when this is mentioned in the article and is verifiable.
• Organisations which manufacture diving equipment, perform underwater work as a major part of their activity, train, certify, and register divers, publish standards for diving equipment, operations or training, may be in scope.
• Publications about diving, diver training, diving safety and diving research may be in scope.

There are several ways to find content on Wikipedia.

If you have a useful search string, a Google Search is quite effective.

Wikipedia search will take you directly to the article if you know the exact name or if Wikipedia has a redirect to the article. It will also suggest other articles in Wikipedia which may be relevant to your search criteria.

The navigation box at the bottom of pages which are relevant to the project provides links to the articles listed. (Not currently available on mobile).

If you want a list of articles in the project that you can browse through, looking for inspiration or a recognisable article title, then there are several other routes:

• Outline of underwater diving is a hierarchical list of all the articles, but may not always be up to date.
• Index of underwater diving is an alphabetical list of the articles, (also not always up to date). It has sub-indexes for some of the associated groups of articles, such as:
  • Index of recreational dive sites
  • Index of underwater divers
• The Glossary of underwater diving terminology is an alphabetical list of terms commonly used in diving and their meanings in this context. A useful quick reference. A definition will often contain a link to a detailed main article, or a section of an article on the term. If you can't find a term and are reasonably sure it is a diving term in general use in English, leave a note on the talk page.

Category:Underwater diving and the associated subcategories should also list all the articles, probably in a different hierarchical structure to that used for the navbox and outline list. Sometimes the category system can be more appropriate for finding information. It is also helpful for maintenance of Wikipedia and keeping track of the connectedness of articles.

If you have unlimited time and no special target, you can go down the rabbit-hole – Read the topic root article Underwater diving, and click on any link that looks interesting. Read until you find another interesting link and click on that, otherwise click your browser arrow to go back, and carry on. Stop when reality intrudes or you get bored, tired, thirsty or a fire breaks out.

None of these systems is perfect or complete. If you find an error or omission let us know, or fix it if you know how. This is a crowdsourced project – you can be one of the crowd.

Stick with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

When to create an article

Most obvious subtopics of underwater diving already have an article, or are included as a section within an existing article. Do not create a new article for an alternative title to an existing article. Create a redirect if it does not already exist. If you think that the title should be changed, start a discussion on the talk page.

As a general principle, create an article when sure that the topic is notable and there will be enough content available from reliable published sources to produce a quality article within a reasonable timespan. If there is only a small amount of well referenced content, or there is not enough evidence of notability, it is usually better to use a section of an existing article. Create redirects to the section for potential titles.

If a section of an article ever gets too big it can be split off into a separate article. This can happen several times as more detail is added.

Components

A component should usually be described in a section of the article on the whole apparatus. It gets its own article when the content is sufficiently complete and detailed to comply with the splitting criteria. For example, a Diving regulator is a part of a Scuba set, but contains sufficient content for a separate article, and there is adequate evidence of notability in the literature. Scuba set contains a summary section on diving regulators, as does any other article where it may be appropriate. These summary sections are tailored to suit the containing article, and would be different for Scuba set, Diving helmet and Rebreather.

Mechanism of diving regulators was split from Diving regulator as it is well supported by reliable sources establishing general notability, and there is adequate material to justify separate articles. Further splits are possible.

On the other hand, purge button and mouthpiece (scuba) are adequately covered as sections in Diving regulator, and were merged there from stubs. The redirects allow quick access to the sections covering those subtopics.

Notability

We do not need an article on every term associated with underwater diving, even if it is notable. In some cases it is better to add a section to an existing article, and a term to the Glossary of underwater diving terminology. If you think that a topic has the potential to require a full article, then by all means create it. if it does not work out it can be merged later and redirected. It is often useful to create a redirect to a section of an article that covers a topic that does not have its own article.

• ((Diving term)) will create a link to a term listed in the glossary of underwater diving terminology, but will not create a redlink if the term is not in the glossary.
  Use the term to be linked as the parameter – ((diving term|term to be linked))

When to create a redirect

Any time a commonly used diving term is redlinked from an article, except for plural forms and misspellings (accepted and regional alternative spellings and terms that would be used by a literate person are legitimately eligible as redirects from synonyms).

Redirect to the most comprehensive article or section on the topic that you can find – there may be several possibilities, but usually one of them is clearly the best.

Consider adding a WP:short description to the redirect, and tag it with any appropriate tags, such as ((R to section)), ((R from subtopic)), ((R with possibilities)), or ((R to synonym)). Also check whether ((R avoided double redirect)) would be appropriate if you can.

Consider checking whether the term is listed in Glossary of underwater diving terminology. It may be worth adding it there too. If you can't work out the Wikicode used on that page, leave a message on the talk page with whatever information you would have used to add the term to the glossary, or failing that, at least the actual term. Sometimes we find that even obvious stuff has been missed.

Rating of redirects

A redirect with possibilities can be rated for importance to the project. Mostly this will be "Low", generally meaning there is no rush as the existing article or section will do adequately until enough content accumulates to justify a split. Occasionally a "Mid" or even a "High" importance redirect topic may still be found. In these cases an article should be created if sufficient suitable sources are available to establish general notability and verifiability. You can just do it if you feel so inclined, but rating as Mid or High importance makes it likely that someone, sometime, will be reminded of the need, and may get round to it. Redirects which are inherently unsuitable for expansion into an article are rated N/A for importance.

Categories for redirects

Categories for redirects, particularly redirects from subtopics, are usually useful. Categories for redirects from synonyms are often just clutter on the category page. Use your discretion.

Project overlap

Collaborate with other projects wherever there is an overlap of interest. Some of our articles are within the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine, and where this is the case the manual of style for medical articles may be relevant. Articles about people must comply with the requirements of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography.

Other projects with significant overlap include:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Physiology
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Engineering
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Technology

Terminology and spelling

Capitalise scuba in sentence case as a common noun or adjective depending on usage (see the Manual of Style mention). When part of a proper name it may be capitalised to suit accepted usage, and it should probably be capitalised as an initialism when referring to the specific oxygen rebreather designed by Christian Lambertsen. SSDE is capitalised as an initialism, as are SCBA, BCD, BC, CCR, SCR. When in doubt, use the full name in sentence case, many abbreviations are context sensitive, and we are not short of paper. Snuba also takes sentence case unless part of a proper name.

Preferred spelling: freediving, breath-hold, sidemount (for the harness configuration).

Not cast in stone: (if you have a strong opinion supported by evidence, please explain or link)

a free-flow (helmet type) or a regulator free-flow (malfunction), but a free flow as in unobstructed flow

full-face (mask type)

lightweight (helmet type)

surface-supplied diving or surface supplied diving, both seem to be used, but we seem to use surface-supplied more often.

air-line diving, using an air line or air hose for gas supply

Project tagging

We have one project tag template, ((WikiProject Scuba diving)) with shortcut ((WPSCUBA)). This template has parameters |class= and |importance=. Class refers to article quality and follows standard Wikipedia guidelines for article quality. Importance refers to importance of the article to encyclopedic coverage of underwater diving on Wikipedia. The same article may be of very different importance to other projects. Class and importance are independent variables, and have no influence on each other. B-Class or higher should be used only where there is evidence that the article has been assessed for that class.

Importance

Top importance refers to core articles that are obviously of critical importance for understanding the topic. Biographical articles are not top importance, nor are dive sites or organisations.

High importance refers to topics that should be familiar to a trained and well informed diver. The topics should be of practical interest to a significant demographic of divers. Biographical articles, dive sites, and organisations are very unlikely to be high importance. When proposing a topic for high importance, please explain why the topic should be considered highly important in the context of diving.

Mid importance articles should be of some practical value or interest to most divers. Biographies of the most historically important divers, inventors, and researchers into diving physiology may be mid importance. People whose work changed diving significantly. These should be discussed on the project talk page. When in doubt, tag as low importance, and leave a note on the project talk page.

Low importance covers the rest of main space articles. Only in exceptional cases will dive sites and biographies not be low importance.

Disambiguation pages are usually NA importance, as are redirects to synonyms, though a Wikipedia:Redirect with possibilities will often be a low importance topic. Possibly even a medium or high importance topic that has been waiting for good sources to be found. Use discretion and discuss these cases.

At this stage of the encyclopedia, most topics of medium to top importance already exist. New articles are likely to be low importance, but this is not always the case. We may have overlooked something important. If you notice, let us know on the project talk page. New high importance articles are most likely to appear as splits from large existing top or high importance articles.

Infoboxes

Wikiproject Underwater diving accepts infoboxes if they provide useful information and generally improve the usefulness of the article to the user. If the article is only tagged by Wikiproject Scuba diving on the talk page, there will probably not be any objection to adding a useful infobox. If there are other project banners, there may or may not be general acceptance of an infobox. If you add one and it is deleted, discuss before replacing.

We have one standard project infobox for equipment:

• ((Infobox diving equipment))

Organisations may use:

• ((Infobox organization))

Biographies may use:

• ((Infobox person))

Medical conditions and related may use one of the WikiProject Medicine infoboxes

Navboxes

Wikiproject Underwater diving currently has two navboxes with collapsible sections,

• ((Underwater diving)), provides links to the articles considered reasonably relevant to the project other than recreational dive sites and regions. Reasonably relevant generally means that it is within the scope of the project. If in doubt, discuss on the project talk page. Editing the navbox to add or remove links requires template editor or administrator permissions, so if you cannot make an edit you consider useful, leave a message on the project talk page or the template talk page. The template has an unnamed parameter to display the relevant section for the article. Only one section will open, if the article is linked from more than one subgroup, choose the most relevant. The abbreviations used can be viewed in the template code, and are listed here for easy reference, but may be out of date. The parameter follows a pipe in the template, eg. ((Underwater diving|divequ)).

• ((Recreational dive sites)) covers dive regions and sites. It should contain a link to any Wikipedia article in which there is clear mention that it represents a region known for multiple recreational dive sites, or that the subject is known as a recreational dive site. Some regions may be known for more than one type of dive site, and some dive sites may be of more than one type. Use discretion, it is not necessary to list every site under every applicable group. If in doubt, ask. This navbox also has a parameter to open the most relevant group when first expanded.

Inclusion of articles

Wikiproject scuba banners may be added to any talk page if the subject fits our scope. If in doubt, discuss. If you add a banner, make an estimate for class and importance. If you get it right, great. If not someone will fix it. If you change a class or importance rating that you did not originally set yourself, please leave an edit summary or talk page message explaining your motivation. Individual divers and dive sites are almost always low importance to the project.

To qualify for inclusion, an article on a dive site should include some referenced mention in the article text that it is known as a dive site, and an article on a diver should have some referenced mention of why they are notable as a diver. Owning a dive shop, working as an instructor, or publishing a blog are not sufficient, even if all three apply.

Referencing

If there is no consensus objection from previous editors of an article, we suggest that:

• The reference section should be titled "References",
• References that are cited multiple times by short form templates should be listed in a subsection titled "Sources", just below "References". Short form references that link to the source reference are preferred.
• general footnotes should be in a section directly above "References" titled "Notes"
• the reference definitions are listed in the reference section in columns about 30em wide. This is automatic by default
• the reference definitions be alphabetically ordered by reference name. This makes them easier to re-use.
• reference names be chosen that are meaningful and easy to remember. <ref name="Author date" />, <ref name="Editor date" /> and <ref name="Publisher date" /> are suggested as good practice. For multiple authors <ref name="Author1 and Author2 date" />, or <ref name="Author et al date" /> is fine. Feel free to rename meaningless automatically generated reference names to names based on one of the listed schemas, just make sure you get them all.
• the CS1 templates be used for references, as they will give a reasonably consistent display, which is good when tidying up for GA or FA.
• More information in a reference does no harm, even when not strictly necessary. Bare url's should be avoided as they may become broken, and lost forever, leaving their text unreferenced and vulnerable to deletion. This happens quite a lot. A bare url reference is better than nothing, if you are new and don't know how to create a proper reference, but try to do the job properly. An in-line external link is not a reference, and will be removed. If it does not have <ref></ref> or <ref name="" /> it is not a reference.
• A statement is as good as its best reference: One good reference is worth more than any number of poor references, but poor references may be better than nothing.
• Exceptional claims require strong evidence. If something is claimed to be a record or the best or worst a source must be cited. Historical claims and statistics are seldom obvious or common knowledge, cite your sources. If anyone can check the facts in real life, a reference is not essential, but it is good form to provide one anyway if you can.
• Common knowledge is sometimes less common than one might assume. Common knowledge for a North Sea saturation diver may differ considerably from common knowledge for a Florida cave diver and both of these are likely to include a lot that is not common knowledge to a freshly cerificated recreational diver with 20 dives under their belt. Common knowledge may also be wrong, out of date, based on the untested opinions of a small group of people, based on the untested opinions of a large group of people, or warped by marketing forces.
• Defer to other Wikiproject styles when the article is rated as higher importance for that project than for WPSCUBA.
• Page numbers are good if available, chapters and sections also good. How they are best provided is not yet settled, but if they are known the format can be changed any time. If all else fails, leave as a comment after the reference name tag.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Underwater diving: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2024-03-13 There are no active tasks for this page Requests Create articles for Technical AquaCorps (Michael Menduno, ed.) Bibliography of diving manuals for real manuals, not training manuals for a single recreational certificate Brush cart ref1, ref2 Cavitation cleaning ref1, ref2, ref3, reflist Chamber of Diving and Watersports, the Egyptian government agency Dive festival Dive guide (publication) Diving contractor Jump camera List of diving equipment manufacturers Long term health effects of diving Buzzacott, Peter (7 September 2018). "Scuba Diving and Life Expectancy". www.dansa.org. DAN Southern Africa. Retrieved 20 September 2021. Los Angeles County Parks & Recreation Underwater Unit oversees a certification program offered since 1964 Rebreather Training Council, a recreational diving industry body concerned with the safe use of rebreathers Royal Naval Physiological Laboratory UK HSE diver registration Underwater diving in popular culture, to cover movies, novels, TV series, comics, art, gaming and fiction in general – some empty sections [1] [2] [3] (previously deleted as cruft. must be properly structured with RS showing notability of concept) Underwater Handbook (Shilling, Werts and Schandelmeier)) Biographical articles: (many of these are inductees of the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame so there should be refs for notability Pauline Ady Kimiuo Aisek Dick Anderson (diver) Jim Auxier Mike Ball (diver) Bill Barada Steven Barsky Author of specialist diving books Dewey Bergman John Bevan (diver) Chuck Blak Chuck Blakeslee Dick Bonin Ernest Brooks (diver) Ric and Do Cammick John Cronin (diver) E. R. Cross Stuart Cove Gustav Dalla Valle Jefferson Davis (diver) Sam Davison (diver) Gilberto de Oliveira Brazilian cave diver; 274 m (899 ft) in Lagoa Misteriosa Bernard Eaton Ralph Erickson (diver) Maxime Forjot Al Giddings Will Goodman Jerry Greenberg (diver) Howard and Michele Hall Bill High Bob Hollis Peter Hughes (diver) Paul Humann Nick Icorn George Irvine III (references needed) Cave diver and controversial early influencer in the DIR movement Albert Jones (diver) Ahmed Gabr Deepest scuba dive to 332 m (1,090 ft) in 2014 [4] Kyuhachi Kataoka Ley Kenyon Rowena Ker Bert Kilbride Ron Kipp Jordan Klein Andre Labn Jack Lavanchy Leslie Leaney Clement Lee Jarek Macedoński Deepest scuba dive in freshwater to 316 m (1,040 ft) in 2018 [5] Kendall McDonald Jack Mckenny Michael Menduno Xavier Méniscus French cave diver; 262 m (860 ft) in the Spring of Estramar [6] Krov Menuhin Daniel Mercier Bev Morgan of Kirby Morgan Wally Muller Geri Murphy Max "Gene" Nohl Kanezo Ohgushi Allan Power Dimitri Rebikoff Drew Richardson Petra Roeglin Carl Roessler Howard Rosenstein Frank Scalli Kurt Schafer (diver) Rolf Schmidt (diver) Don Shirley (diver) Spencer Slate Peter Small (diver) - Co-founder British Sub-Aqua Club, author, journalist Larry Smith (diver) Bob Soto Ron Steven Akira Tateishi Francis Toribiong Paul Tzimoulis Jan Uhre - Danish diving and underwater archaeology pioneer Riichi Watanabe Hal Watts Founder of the PSAI in 1962, coined Plan Your Dive. Dive Your Plan. [7] Robert D. Workman (doctor) US Navy decompression researcher Gardner Young Armand and JoAnn Zigahn Women Divers Hall of Fame members. If any of these go blue, check and where appropriate add to membership list to WDHOF article. In date as of July 2022. Danielle Alary Barbara Allen (diver) Renee Applegate Heather Armstrong (diver) Susan Bangasser Kristine Barsky Patricia Beddows Monique Bellefeuille Cecilie Benjamin Gina Bier Janet Bieser Carla Binelli Christine Bird Autumn Blum Debra Bodenstedt Rena Bonem Jolie Bookspan Tova Bornovski Holly Bourbon Jane Bowman (diver) Georgienne Bradley Twila Bratcher-Critchlow Lucy Bunkley-Williams Tanya Burnett Bonnie Cardone Jennifer Carter Cathie Cush Toni Carrell Victoria Cassano Cathryn Castle Garcia Cecelia Connelly Gail Chapman Melanie Clark Mary Connelly Lynn Costenaro Amanda Cotton Cindi Courter Ellen Cuylaerts Helen Davis (diver) Sheri Daye Anna DeLoach Kalli De Meyer Meg Donat Anne Doubilet Sue Drafahl Evelyn Dudas Kathleen Dudzinski Renée Duncan Nancy Easterbrook Susan R. Eaton Mary Eckhoff Randi Eisen Mary Jo Ferris-Fischer Pauline Fiene Caroline Fife Dolores Fisher Susie Fletcher Joan Follmer Joan Forsberg Regina Franklin Lynn Funkhouser Frances Gaar Anne Giesecke M. Veronica (Ronni) Gilligan Anita George-Ares Natalie Gibb Martha Watkins Gilkes Szilvia Gogh Karen Gowlett-Holmes Linda Gray (diver) Brigit Grimm Nancy Guarascio Erika-Leigh Haley Michele Hall Norma Hansen Gina Harden Anne Hasson Joyce Hayward Martha Herb Rene Hernandez Emma Hickerson Vallorie Hodges Edith Hoffman Diana Hollingshead Linda Hubbell Maria Hults Laura James (diver) Jayne Jenkins Paula Jerman Connie Johnson (diver) Rebecca Jones (diver) Jana Bradley Jones Susan Kayar Sharon Kegeles Sabine Kerkau Dawn Kernagis June Kieser Lise Kinahan Jennifer King (diver) Marie Knafelc Ann Kristovich Barb Lander Grace Landers Maureen Langevin Valerie Langstaff Nathalie Lasselin Shirley Lee Marie Levine Mary Edith (Mel) Lillis Dianne Littler Susan Long (diver) Deb Lubas Diann (Karin) Lynn Nancy McGee Rusty Murray Michael Stephanie Miele Lisa Mitchell (diver) Valerie Moore Ella Jean Morgan Connie Lyn Morgan Denise Morrissette Patty Newell Mortara Patti Mount Geri Murphy Jan Neal Chantelle Newman Adina Ochert Roseanne Oliveros Sara Olsen Erin O'Neill Betty Orr Faith Ortins Julie Ouimet Robin Parish Carolyn Pascal-Guarino Christy Pattengill-Semmens Alese Pechter Ruth Petzold Margo Peyton Linda Pitkin Shirley Pomponi Sharon Kwok Pong Ellen Prager Marianne Preker Michelle Pugh Erin Quigley Janice Raber Sherry Reed Vreni Roduner Lynn Rodriguez Laura Rogers-Bennett Carol Rose (diver) Kathy Rothschild Norine Rouse Betsy Royal Lesley Runnalls Lorraine Sadler Erica Sahler Allison Vitsky Sallmon Susan Sammon Dora Sandoval Barbara (Bobbie) Scholley Becky Kagan Schott Patty Seery Nancy Sefton Caron Shake Kim Sheckler Maurine Shimlock Devonna Sue Morra Shoemaker Amy Slate Jeanne Sleeper Debbie Smith (diver) Angelique Songco Susan Speck Pat Stayer Marguerite St-Leger-Dowse Andrea Stockert Karen Straus Diedre Sullivan Helen Talge Maida Taylor Hélène de Tayrac-Senik Mia Tegner Cheryl Thacker Bridget Thomas Tamara Thomsen Bonnie Toth Sue Trukken Donna Uguccioni Cody Unser Valerie de la Valdene Karen van den Oever Deepest dive of a woman to 246 m (807 ft) [8] Valerie Van-Heest Karen Van Hoesen Eveline Verdier Hillary Viders Georgann Wachter Sally Wahrmann Kay Walten Scarlett Watts Kathy Weydig Jennifer Wheaton Deborah Whitcraft Laurie Wilson Edie Widder Birgitte Wilms Frankie Wingert Patricia Wuest Jill Yager Lori Yost Andrea Zaferes Julianne Ziefle JoAnn Zigahn Researchers T. R. Hennessy Decompression researcher D. J. Kidd Canadian decompression researcher R. A. Stubbs Canadian decompression researcher Bruce Wienke Developer of the reduced gradient bubble model (RGBM) David Yount Co-developer of the varying permeability model (VPM) Diving equipment manufacturers Balco sub (company) (Greece) Barakuda (company) (Germany) Beltrán (company) (Spain) Catalina (company) (US) cylinders Cobra sub (company) (Brazil) Daihan Diving Sports (company) (Korea) Douglas (company) (France) Escualo (company) (Mexico) Eurocylinder steel cylinders Faber Industrie (Italy) steel cylinders ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 Glaros sub (company) (Greece) Godel (company) (France) GSD (company) (Italy) Gull Marine Sports (company) (Japan) Haffenden Moulding (company) (UK) Hurricane/Hurrisport (France) International Divers Corporation (company) (Canada) Kent Rubber (company) (France) Longo sub (company) (Italy) Luxfer (company) (UK, US)) aluminium cylinders Marin (company) (France) Mordem (company) (Italy) Nauti-scope (company) (Denmark) RIS-SPORTNAUTIK (company) (Yugoslavia) Safari sub (company) (Spain) Salvas (company) (Italy) Simotal (company) (Portugal) Squale (company) (France) Stomil (company) (Poland) Technisub (company) (Italy) Tigullio (company) (Italy) Torpedo products (company) (Australia) M. D. Turnbull (company) (Australia) Typhoon International (company) (UK) Undersee Products (company) (Australia) United Service Agency (company) (France) Vítkovice Steel (Cz, Az) Steel cylinders Yilmaz (company) (Turkey) Medical Examiner of Divers Term used by DDRC, DMAC, IMCA, HSE, or Dive Medical Examiner (SAUHMA) Diving Medical Practioner Diving Medical Technician or Diver Medical Technician, or Dive Medical Technician Create articles for redirects with possibilities (fairly low priority) Bell cursor – Device to guide and control a diving bell near and above the surface Bellman (diving) – The member of a dive team who acts as stand-by diver and tender from the diving bell Boarding stirrup – A suspended step to help divers lift themselves from the water into a boat Breathing air – Air quality suitable for safe breathing Breathing gas quality – Purity requirements for gases for human breathing Chamber operator – A person who operates a diving chamber Clump weight – A heavy weight suspended on cable used to guide a diving bell Decompression diving – Diving where the diver incurs a decompression obligation Diver's attendant – Assistant for a diver Diving accident – Accident occurring while diving underwater Diving air filter – Device to purify compressed breathing air Diving mode – The conceptual methods of underwater diving Diving reel – Device for deploying and recovering distance line underwater Diving systems technician – A competent person who maintains and repairs diving life-support equipment aka Diving equipment technician European Scientific Diving Panel – A panel of the European Network of Marine Research Institutes and Stations with sections for European Scientific Diver and Advanced European Scientific Diver Hot water suit – A wetsuit with a supply of heated water to keep a diver warm Hyperbaric lifeboat – Lifeboat for transporting people under pressure Launch and recovery system (diving) – Equipment used to deploy and recover a diving bell, stage, or ROV Life support technician – A member of a saturation diving team who operates the surface habitat Oxygen analyser – Instrument to measure partial pressure of oxygen in a gas mixture Psychological fitness to dive – Psychological fitness of a person to function safely underwater under pressure - Split from Fitness to dive? See Campbell, Ernest (2000). "Medical info: Psychological Issues in Diving". www.diversalertnetwork.org. Retrieved 11 November 2017. From the September/October 2000 issue of Alert Diver. Campbell, Ernest. "Medical info: Psychological Issues in Diving II - Anxiety, Phobias in Diving". www.diversalertnetwork.org. Retrieved 11 November 2017., Campbell, Ernest. "Medical info: Psychological Issues in Diving III - Schizophrenia, Substance Abuse". www.diversalertnetwork.org. Retrieved 11 November 2017. and Yarbrough, John R. "Anxiety: Is It A Contraindication to Diving?". www.diversalertnetwork.org. Retrieved 11 November 2017. Stand-by diver – A member of a dive team who is ready to assist or rescue the working diver Saturation diving skills – Skills and procedures required for the safe operation and use of saturation diving equipment Sat diving standard procedures and emergency procedures, closed bell rescue etc. (Split from Surface supplied diving skills?) Very low priority Bailout gas – Emergency breathing gas supply carried by the diver Bottom gas – Gas breathed during the deep part of a dive Breathing air – Air quality suitable for safe breathing Decompression gas – Oxygen-rich gas used for accelerated decompression Emergency gas supply – Alternative independent breathing gas supply carried by a diver Ankle weights (diving) – Diver trim weights worn at the ankles Integrated weights – Diving weights carried in pockets on the buoyancy compensator Trim weights (diving) – Diving weights distributed primarily to improve trim Weight belt – A ballasted waist belt worn by a diver Jonline – A short line used by scuba divers to clip themselves to something Power inflator – Low pressure gas supply valve for buoyancy compensator Decompression cylinder – Scuba cylinder carrying decompression gas Dump valve (diving) – Pressure relief and manual vent on diving buoyancy compensator Decompression buoy – Inflatable surface marker buoy deployed from underwater Decompression trapeze – Horizontal bars suspended at decompression stop depths Bottom timer – An electronic instrument that records depth and elapsed time data on an underwater dive Pneumofathometer – Instrument for measuring the depth of a diver by air pressure Submersible pressure gauge – Pressure measuring instrument for underwater service Diving stage – A platform on which one or two divers stand which transports them vertically through the water Dive reel – Device for storing, deploying and recovering underwater guide line Diver's cutting tool – A tool to assist in extricating the diver from entrapment by lines or nets Diver's knife – A tool to assist in extricating the diver from entrapment by lines or nets Diving safety harness – A harness by which the diver can safely be lifted Emergency gas supply – Alternative independent breathing gas supply carried by a diver Gas panel – Breathing gas distribution panel for surface-supplied diving Gas reclaim system – System to recover used breathing gas and prepare it for re-use Diver's attendant – Assistant for a diver Support diver – Recreational diving equivalent of a stand-by diver Clean-up Defense against swimmer incursions Frogman Needs copyediting and reformatting of references. Cleanup, add citations, fix tone. Wetsuit - needs references, expand accessories section. Improve lead section Most articles need an improved lead section to serve as a suitable summary of their article's topic Expand Category:Underwater diving stubs Airlift (dredging device) – Dredging device using injected air to move water and entrained load up a pipe American Canadian Underwater Certifications – Recreational diver training and certification agency American Nitrox Divers International – Recreational diver training and certification agency Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme – Australian based international occupational diver accreditation organisation – content other than training standards needed Baited remote underwater video – Equipment for estimating fish populations Capernwray Dive Centre – Flooded quarry in Lancashire, England, used as a recreational dive site Dick Rutkowski – American pioneer in hyperbaric and diving medicine and use of mixed breathing gases for diving - as referenced in IANTD and American Nitrox Divers International Dive briefing – Meeting of the dive team to discuss details before the diving operation Dive planning#Environmental factors – The process of planning an underwater diving operation – empty section Diver rescue – Rescue of a distressed or incapacitated diver - add decompression, surface supply and bell procedures. Diver training – Processes to develop the skills and knowledge to dive safely underwater – More needed on military diver training Diving instructor – Person who trains and assesses underwater divers – Several empty sections. May be possible to use summaries copied from other article for some of them. Diving medicine#History – Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disorders caused by underwater diving and Ethical and medicolegal issues (empty section) Diving procedures – Standardised methods of doing things that are known to work effectively and acceptably safely – finish link annotations Dutch Springs – Flooded quarry in Pennsylvania used as a recreational diving site Environmental impact of recreational diving – Effects of scuba diving on the underwater environment Ferraro, Luigi – Officer of the Royal Italian Navy and pioneer of Italian submarine warfare – Translate from article on it: Freeflow – A state of continuous flow of breathing gas in an underwater breathing apparatus Halcyon PVR-BASC – Semi-closed circuit depth compensated passive addition diving rebreather Halcyon RB80 – Non-depth-compensated passive addition semi-closed circuit rebreather Hamilton Jr., Robert William – American physiologist and researcher in hyperbaric physiology. – Expand lead Human factors in diving safety – The influence of physical, cognitive and behavioral characteristics of divers on safety – Several empty subsections in section 4 International Diving Educators Association Interspiro DCSC – Military semi-closed circuit passive addition diving rebreather Investigation of diving accidents – Forensic investigation of underwater diving accidents (3 sections to expand from Barsky)) Main, William Hogarth – Cave diver and scuba configuration experimentalist National Association of Underwater Instructors – Non-profit training and certification agency association of scuba instructors Oxygen compatibility#Oxygen service design – Usability in high-oxygen environments Police diving – A branch of professional diving carried out by police services Professional Diving Instructors Corporation – Recreational diver training and certification agency Salvage diving – Diving work associated with the recovery of vehicles, cargo and structures – Several empty sections. Scuba Diving International – Recreational diver training and certification agency Scuba diving tourism#History – Industry based on recreational diver travel (empty section) Technical Diving International – Technical diver training and certification agency Tremie – Equipment for underwater concrete placement Underwater archaeology #History – Archaeological techniques practiced at underwater sites Underwater search and recovery – Locating and recovering underwater objects - detrivialise. Underwater construction – Industrial construction in an underwater environment – expand lists into sections Work of breathing – Energy expended to inhale and exhale a breathing gas Women Divers Hall of Fame – International honor society. Expand/complete Cleaning and disinfection of personal diving equipment – Prevention of infection by shared or contaminated equipment Assess Check regularly on Category:Unassessed SCUBA articles, and then use WP:WikiProject SCUBA/Assessment to give any new articles a quality class. Review Category:Stub-Class SCUBA articles; Find reliable sources to establish notability and add them. Review Category:Start-Class SCUBA articles; Find reliable sources to verify the major points and add them. Copyedit Add infobox Trimix Scuba Association Fix NPOV Add images to Rebreather - various models. Tremie Merge Move/rename Decompression (altitude) Split Breathing tube from Rebreather? Update Verify Recreational dive sites wikify Longer term goals Get all Top importance articles to at least GA Get all High importance articles to at least B-class Get all Mid importance articles to at least C-class. Get all the others to at least start class. Where this is impossible or inappropriate, look into merging them into other articles. Rationalise coverage of the subject by splitting. merging and creating articles as seems appropriate at the time, and creating redirects wherever they will be useful. Maintain and develop the navbox to facilitate finding useful articles within the project. Build up the Portal:Underwater diving so that anyone can find any reasonably important information on the subject. This is in abeyance until the purpose of portals has been defined sufficiently to be worth the effort.

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1. Finavon (talk · contribs): 19 October 2007.
2. Legis (talk · contribs) 11:27, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
3. -hh (talk · contribs) Context; perspective, history; 40yrs diving (although dry in 2020) 12:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
4. Alfie66 (talk · contribs) (Decompression theory, cave diving; personal qual.: OWSI, NACD Full Cave) 00:42, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
5. Pbsouthwood (talk · contribs) (Scientific diving, equipment, safety, procedures, commercial diving)13:37, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
6. ukexpat (talk · contribs) (PADI Master Scuba Diver, happy to work on pretty much anything) – 03:40, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
7. DiverDave (talk · contribs) (PADI Divemaster and tech diver. Interested in cave diving, wreck diving, decompression diving, history of diving, diving medicine.) 05:04, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
8. Sbharris (talk · contribs) 01:41, 30 September 2010 (UTC) Liquid breathing, general sport scuba.[reply]
9. andrewman327 (talk · contribs) I'm a licensed EMT and am about to start OWD class. I'd like to work on content related to medical and rescue aspects of diving. 23:47, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
10. Yahia.Mokhtar (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on BSAC, Marie life, Decompression theory, and underwater medical subjects)
11. Atsme (talk · contribs) NAUI Advanced Open Water & Specialty instructor/NITROX instructor emeritus, former SSI instructer, taught u/w photography and now I dive because I love u/w photography and for the simple pleasures of diving. Ping me if you need a copy editor or reviewer for GAs or FAs. ^{Atsme📞📧} 15:08, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
12. Helmardine (talk · contribs) Recreational snorkeller interested in researching and documenting world history of fins, masks, snorkels, suits, i.e. basic gear other than scuba, using foreign-language reading skills to access sources of information. 10:19, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
13. TrinacrianGolem (talk · contribs) Commercial diving law and regulations--TrinacrianGolem (talk) 19:34, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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1. Anthony Appleyard (talk · contribs) 16:28, 15 October 2007 (UTC) (deceased)[reply]
2. RexxS (talk · contribs) 18:54, 9 January 2008 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
3. Devondiver (talk · contribs) (PADI/ANDI Technical/Sidemount/Advanced-Wreck Instructor,BSAC OW/SSI AOW Instructor) (inactive)
4. Gr0ff (talk · contribs) : 2 October 2007 (inactive)
5. Yegor Chernyshev (talk · contribs) : 2 October 2007. (inactive)
6. Michagal (talk · contribs): 15 October 2007. (inactive)
7. Scubafish (talk · contribs): 18 October 2007. (inactive)
8. Fordan (talk · contribs): 7 November 2007 (inactive)
9. Pumpmeup (talk · contribs): 06:34, 14 November 2007 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
10. Bu b0y2007 (talk · contribs) 00:37, 19 November 2007 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
11. Smileyface 12 91 (talk · contribs) 03:59, 23 November 2007 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
12. Serguei S. Dukachev (talk · contribs) 06:20, 23 November 2007 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
13. Zolddd (talk · contribs) 04:21, 18 December 2007 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
14. Skogstokerier (talk · contribs) 14:27, 21 December 2007 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
15. Darthgriz98 (talk · contribs) : 05:37, 13 February 2008 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
16. Daddy.twins (talk · contribs) 22:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
17. Gsteve08 (talk · contribs) 13:51, 3 July 2008 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
18. Nltheshadow (talk · contribs) 15:52, 12 August 2008 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
19. Ckenst (talk · contribs) (I am PADI Divemaster and would love to help out where possible.)00:03, 10 September 2009
20. Nathanelrod (talk · contribs) Just helping anyway I can. Haven't been down in a while. 21:01, 17 October 2009 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
21. Devilgas (talk · contribs) 14:06, 7 January 2010 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
22. Diver62 (talk · contribs) (cave and wreck diving, open water diving, wish i could dive) 01:07, 14 July 2010 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
23. Stevehare798 (talk · contribs) (BSAC Assistant Instructor; PADI Rescue Diver; Drysuit Diver Northern Ireland) 15:24, 15 July 2011 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
24. A More Perfect Onion (talk · contribs) 18:18, 19 September 2008 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
25. Nhobgood (talk · contribs)13:14, 23 January 2009 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
26. Unionhawk (talk · contribs) (I am an Advanced Open Water Diver. Can help where asked.)01:21, 31 August 2009 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
27. Uttexas (talk · contribs) (Helping in any places that needs help16:43, 17 November 2009 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
28. Wiki4Thal (talk · contribs) (Bio: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/members/thalassamania.html click: "about me" tab, I'll dabble a bit and add from personal experiences, later on I'll be glad to tackle some large assignment) Wiki4Thal (talk) 01:17, 25 December 2011 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
29. PoseidonDiver (talk · contribs) (NAUI Course Director; Technical Instructor Trainer; DAN Instructor Trainer. Major contributor to well know scuba magazine. I specialise in cave and wreck penetration training. Happy to assist with any SCUBA related Articles) 06:49, 22 October 2012 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
30. Data2 (talk · contribs) (diver with mathematical background) Interested in decompression theory, DIR diving, mechanics of OC and CC dive gear. (inactive)
31. GregoryPye (talk · contribs) (Rec and Tec diver, engineer. Far from the most knowledgeable, but happy to help, esp. where the volume of content has become unbalanced or poorly structured).(inactive)
32. Andreas.sta (talk · contribs) (PADI Specialty instructor and TDI tech diver. Happy to work on pretty much anything) 17:10, 11 June 2012 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
33. Tezzadiver (talk · contribs) (PADI Instructor since 2003, interested to help any way I can) 23:27, 8 March 2020 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
34. emkrakoff (talk · contribs) PADI Scuba Instructor, AIDA/molchanov/ssi freediving instructor. I'm here to expand the freediving section (inactive)
35. cowdy001 (talk · contribs) (diver with certs from BSAC/CDAA/CMAS/FAUI/GUE/IANTD/NAUI/PADI/SSI) Can do anything but particularly like doing articles about organisations, events & history. 21:28, 1 November 2012 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
36. Sodacan (talk · contribs) (Enthusiast, available for graphics and such) 12:42, 17 May 2012 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]
37. Arsenikk (talk · contribs) 22:24, 13 October 2008 (UTC) (inactive)[reply]

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