An alphabetical guide to the safe practices of sports diving as recommended by the Hoofers SCUBA Club for the sport of SCUBA diving and snorkeling within the University of Wisconsin Hoofers organization. The ideas expressed within these protocols reflect the current thinking of the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) and the advice on which it is acting.
Diving is an adventure sport and like all adventure sports its participants require differing levels of enjoyment and challenge. At one extreme, we have the equivalent of the Himalayan mountaineer who, in peak condition accepts the challenge of new routes and exploration. At the other extreme we have the equivalent of the weekend summer climber who potters around on popular well-climbed rock faces.
What is safe diving practice for the former may well be very perilous for the latter and so the contents of this document are not a set of rigid rules but recommendations for safe diving practices. These recommendations can be amended depending upon the particular type of diving being planned and the experience and capabilities of the two divers carrying out the dive.
Where appropriate the advice in this section is also applicable to snorkel diving. The Diver's Code of Conduct is appended to the end of this document. It contains sensible advice on the conduct of all dives, and is seen as complementary to the guidance given here.
Access/Egress, Accidents/Incidents, Air Reserve, Alcohol Policy, Alternative Air Sources, Altitude, Ascent Rate, Assisted Ascents, Assisting Another Diver, Authorized Club Dives
Boats, Boating Navigation Rules, Buddy Diving, Buddy Lines, Buoyancy Compensators (BCDs)
Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Compressors, Computers, Cylinders (Air), Cylinders (Argon), Cylinders (Nitrox and Mixed Gas)
Decompression Diving, Decompression Illness (DCI), Delayed Surface Marker Buoy (SMB), Depth, Distressed Diver, Dive Computers, Dive Discipline, Dive Leadership, Dive Planning and Organization, Dive Tables, Diving Flag, Diver Propulsion Vehicles, Drivers Recall Systems, Drugs, Drysuits
Emergency Ascents, First Aid, Fitness to Dive, Flying and Diving, Hand Signals, Hyperventilation, Ice Diving, Incidents, Instruction, Insurance, Integrated Weight Systems
Legislation and Laws, Lift bag, Lines
Medical Examination, Mixed Gases, Neutral Buoyancy, Night Diving, Nitrogen Narcosis, Nitrox, No Clear Surface, Odd Numbers, Oxygen
PADI Diving Safety Practices, PFO (Patent Foramen Ovale), Pots and Buoys, Pregnancy, Qualifying Dives
Recompression Chamber, Recreational Dive Planner (RDP), Re-Entry Decompression, Regulators, Repeat Dives
Safety Stops, Separated Divers, Sharing Air, Signals, Smoking, Solo Diving, Stand-by Divers, Surface Marker Buoy (SMB), Surface Signaling Devices
Tangle, Theoretical Depth at Altitude Chart, Tides, Trimix, VHF Radio, Weather, Weightbelts & Integrated Weight Systems, Wreck Diving
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