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Of or pertaining to any organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity or game requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means within a specified set of rules.

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capillary depth gauge

Sports; Scuba diving

Made up of a small tube. Uses Boyle's law to determine depth.

squeeze

Sports; Scuba diving

Pain or discomfort in an enclosed (sinuses, Middle ear, inside a mask), caused by shrinkage of that space, occurs on decent.

artificial respiration

Sports; Scuba diving

Any means by which an alternating increase and decrease in chest volume is artificially created while maintaining an open airway in mouth and nose passages; mouth to mouth, mouth ...

saturation diving

Sports; Scuba diving

Diving performed after the body is fully saturated with nitrogen. To become fully saturated the diver must stay under water for a much longer period than is allowed in ...

altitude sickness

Sports; Scuba diving

An illness brought on by the sudden reduction in pressure of ascent to altitude.

second stage regulator

Sports; Scuba diving

The regulator that follows, in line, the first stage regulator, and delivers compressed air to the diver. Usually associated with the mouthpiece.

supplied air snorkeling for youth (SASY)

Sports; Scuba diving

BC-like PFD mounted with small compressed air cylinder and regulator that allows snorkeler to breathe comfortably on the surface but prohibits him from descending. SPG ...