Wikipedia:WikiProject Underwater diving

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

Goals
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 eligible articles in the  Category:WikiProject SCUBA articles, (2215 have a short description. (18:03, 14 August 2023 (UTC))


 * Category:WikiProject SCUBA articles

These articles should usually have a short description:
 * Category:B-Class SCUBA articles‎ (166) 19 April 2023  (those without do not need sd)
 * Category:C-Class SCUBA articles‎ (446) 10 August 2023  (those without do not need sd)
 * Category:FA-Class SCUBA articles‎ (8) 19 April 2023
 * Category:FL-Class SCUBA articles‎ (1) 19 April 2023
 * Category:GA-Class SCUBA articles‎ (47) 10 August 2023
 * Category:List-Class SCUBA articles‎ (29) 19 April 2023 (those without do not need sd)
 * Category:Portal-Class SCUBA articles‎ (1)
 * Category:Redirect-Class SCUBA articles‎ (757) 14 August 2023  (those without do not need sd)
 * Category:Start-Class SCUBA articles‎ (728) 14 30 September 2023 (those without do not need sd)
 * Category:Stub-Class SCUBA articles‎ (286) 14 30 September 2023 (those without do not need sd)
 * Category:Draft-Class SCUBA articles‎ (3) 7 Jan 2023
 * Category:Unassessed SCUBA articles‎ (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 (0)
 * Category:Category-Class SCUBA articles‎ (176)
 * Category:Disambig-Class SCUBA articles‎ (12)
 * Category:FM-Class SCUBA articles‎ (0)
 * Category:NA-Class SCUBA articles‎ (0)
 * Category:Project-Class SCUBA articles‎ (1)
 * Category:Template-Class SCUBA articles‎ (0)

Scope

 * 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.

Finding content
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:

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.
 * 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.

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.

Guidelines
Stick with the 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 –

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 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 Manual of Style/Biography.

Other projects with significant overlap include:
 * WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health
 * WikiProject Physiology
 * WikiProject Engineering
 * 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, with shortcut. 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 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: Organisations may use: Biographies may use: Medical conditions and related may use one of the WikiProject Medicine infoboxes
 * Infobox diving equipment
 * Infobox organization
 * Infobox person

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.


 * 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., and are suggested as good practice. For multiple authors , or 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 or 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.

Participants
Please feel free to add yourself to the end of the list here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Entry format:


 * 1)  (I am interested in working on...)
 * (Please note that it is "User|" not "User:" and to produce just the datestamp, use five tildes at the end, not four.)


 * : 19 October 2007.


 * 1)  11:27, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2)  Context; perspective, history; 40yrs diving (although dry in 2020) 12:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * 1)  (Decompression theory, cave diving; personal qual.: OWSI, NACD Full Cave) 00:42, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 2)  (Scientific diving, equipment, safety, procedures, commercial diving)13:37, 1 January 2010 (UTC)


 * 1)  (PADI Master Scuba Diver, happy to work on pretty much anything) – 03:40, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 2)  (PADI Divemaster and tech diver. Interested in cave diving, wreck diving, decompression diving, history of diving, diving medicine.) 05:04, 1 May 2010 (UTC)


 * 1)  01:41, 30 September 2010 (UTC) Liquid breathing, general sport scuba.


 * 1)  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)


 * 1)  (I am interested in working on BSAC, Marie life, Decompression theory, and underwater medical subjects)
 * 2)  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)


 * 1)  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)


 * 1)  Commercial diving law and regulations--TrinacrianGolem (talk) 19:34, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Past participants
Editors who were listed as participants but have not been active on Wikipedia for over a year. If you are one of these and start participating again, just remove the comment code from around your name in the participants list and you will be back.
 * 1)  16:28, 15 October 2007 (UTC) (deceased)
 * 2)  18:54, 9 January 2008 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 3)  (PADI/ANDI Technical/Sidemount/Advanced-Wreck Instructor,BSAC OW/SSI AOW Instructor) (inactive)
 * : 2 October 2007 (inactive)
 * : 2 October 2007. (inactive)
 * : 15 October 2007. (inactive)
 * : 18 October 2007. (inactive)
 * : 7 November 2007 (inactive)
 * : 06:34, 14 November 2007 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 1)  00:37, 19 November 2007 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 2)   03:59, 23 November 2007 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 3)  06:20, 23 November 2007 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 4)  04:21, 18 December 2007 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 5)  14:27, 21 December 2007 (UTC) (inactive)
 * : 05:37, 13 February 2008 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 1)  22:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 2)  13:51, 3 July 2008 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 3)  15:52, 12 August 2008 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 4)  (I am PADI Divemaster and would love to help out where possible.)00:03, 10 September 2009
 * 5)  Just helping anyway I can. Haven't been down in a while. 21:01, 17 October 2009 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 6)  14:06, 7 January 2010 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 7)  (cave and wreck diving, open water diving, wish i could dive) 01:07, 14 July 2010 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 8)  (BSAC Assistant Instructor; PADI Rescue Diver; Drysuit Diver Northern Ireland) 15:24, 15 July 2011 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 9)  18:18, 19 September 2008 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 13:14, 23 January 2009 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 1)  (I am an Advanced Open Water Diver. Can help where asked.)01:21, 31 August 2009 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 2)  (Helping in any places that needs help16:43, 17 November 2009 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 3)  (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)
 * 4)  (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)
 * 5)  (diver with mathematical background) Interested in decompression theory, DIR diving, mechanics of OC and CC dive gear. (inactive)
 * 6)  (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)
 * 7)  (PADI Specialty instructor and TDI tech diver. Happy to work on pretty much anything) 17:10, 11 June 2012 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 8)  (PADI Instructor since 2003, interested to help any way I can) 23:27, 8 March 2020 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 9)  PADI Scuba Instructor, AIDA/molchanov/ssi freediving instructor. I'm here to expand the freediving section (inactive)
 * 10)  (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)
 * 11)  (Enthusiast, available for graphics and such) 12:42, 17 May 2012 (UTC) (inactive)
 * 12)  22:24, 13 October 2008 (UTC) (inactive)

Recognised content

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 * Kronan (ship)
 * Mary Rose
 * Metabolism
 * Oxygen toxicity
 * Underwater diving
 * Vasa (ship)
 * SS Washingtonian (1913)
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 * Metabolism
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 * USS Saratoga (CV-3)
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 * SS Washingtonian (1913)
 * Featured lists
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 * USS Arkansas (BB-33)
 * David Attenborough
 * William Beebe
 * HMSAS Bloemfontein
 * HMS Boadicea (H65)
 * Bowie Seamount
 * Hugh Bradner
 * Carbon monoxide poisoning
 * Scott Carpenter
 * SS Cayuga
 * SS Chester A. Congdon
 * Decompression sickness
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 * Decompression equipment
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 * Dive profile
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 * Diving cylinder
 * SS Emperor
 * Force
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 * History of decompression research and development
 * SS Ironsides
 * SS John V. Moran
 * Scott Kelly (astronaut)
 * PS Keystone State
 * SS Manasoo
 * USS Monitor
 * Nitrogen narcosis
 * Pearl and Hermes Atoll
 * HMS Pelorus (J291)
 * HMS Prince of Wales (53)
 * Leni Riefenstahl
 * HMS Safari
 * Japanese cruiser Sakawa
 * Scuba diving
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 * Special Air Service Regiment
 * Special Air Service
 * Special Boat Service
 * HMS Thames (1885)
 * SAS Transvaal
 * German submarine U-40 (1938)
 * SS Vernon
 * USS Yancey
 * Former good articles
 * Great Barrier Reef
 * Kadmat Island
 * Lipid
 * Surface tension
 * Did you know? articles
 * 115 (barge)
 * ABISMO
 * Administrative controls
 * Air lock diving-bell plant
 * SS Algoma
 * Aluminaut
 * Amaryllis (ship)
 * Barodontalgia
 * SS Ben Doran
 * Blauhöhle
 * George F. Bond
 * Booya (ship)
 * Bowie Seamount
 * Hugh Bradner
 * Byford Dolphin
 * CURV
 * SS Cayuga
 * SS Cedarville
 * SS Chester A. Congdon
 * SS Clifton
 * Cobb Seamount
 * SS Comet (1857)
 * Fabien Cousteau
 * Darwin's Arch
 * SS Emperor
 * European Underwater and Baromedical Society
 * SS Francisco Morazan (1922)
 * Green Banana Hole
 * Sofía Gómez
 * Graham Hawkes
 * Hazard elimination
 * Hazard substitution
 * SS Hispania (1912)
 * Gene Hobbs
 * Hol Chan Marine Reserve
 * Human torpedo
 * SS Ironsides
 * SS John V. Moran
 * Kadmat Island
 * Kaikō ROV
 * Shavarsh Karapetyan
 * PS Keystone State
 * Kimiuo Aisek Memorial Museum
 * Kronan (ship)
 * SS Lakeland
 * Lighthouse Reef
 * SS Manasoo
 * Marine Commandos
 * Maritime Archaeology Trust
 * Mary Rose
 * Anna Marguerite McCann
 * Disappearance of Ben McDaniel
 * Metamora (shipwreck)
 * USS Mindanao (ARG-3)
 * Mission 31
 * Miztec (schooner barge)
 * Ernest William Moir
 * SS Myron
 * Nautile
 * Nereus (underwater vehicle)
 * Herbert Nitsch
 * Occupational hazard
 * Palmwood shipwreck
 * Pearl and Hermes Atoll
 * SS Persier (1918)
 * Mendel L. Peterson
 * Andreas Rechnitzer
 * Robert C. Pringle (tug)
 * Rouse Simmons
 * HMS Safari
 * Samuel P. Ely (shipwreck)
 * SS Selah Chamberlain
 * Charles Wesley Shilling
 * The Silent World
 * SS Sir William Siemens
 * Charles Spalding
 * Special Air Service Regiment
 * Rob Stewart (filmmaker)
 * Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment
 * Thomas Wilson (shipwreck)
 * Albert Tillman
 * Underwater hockey in Turkey
 * SS Vernon
 * Wardang Island
 * SS Washingtonian (1913)
 * In the News articles
 * Ricou Browning
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 * Darwin's Arch
 * Deepsea Challenger
 * Jon Lindbergh
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 * Pilar Luna
 * Sinking of MV Conception
 * Rob Stewart (filmmaker)
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The quality scale is implemented in the WikiProject SCUBA template. New articles need to have our template added to their talk page.

Unassessed articles should be given an appropriate quality and importance classification by adding the |class= and |importance= parameters to the WPSCUBA template.

Some assistance in determining the appropriate class is available at WikiProject SCUBA/Assessment. Importance is best estimated by considering how important or useful the information potentially included would be to a diver.

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Good article candidates
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Top importance articles that are not yet nominated for GA or FA

 * Diving regulator (B)
 * Freediving (B)
 * Saturation diving (B)
 * Scuba gas management (B)
 * Surface-supplied diving (B)

High importance articles that are not yet nominated for GA or FA

 * Alternative air source (B)
 * Bailout bottle (B)
 * Barotrauma (B)
 * Breathing gas (B)
 * Buddy breathing (B)
 * Buddy diving (B)
 * Decompression theory (B)
 * Dive boat (B)
 * Dive planning (B)
 * Diving mask (B)
 * Diving medicine (B)
 * Diving physics (B)
 * Diving reflex (B)
 * Diving safety (B)
 * Diving suit (B)
 * Diving supervisor (B)
 * Diving weighting system (B)
 * Drowning (B) (med)
 * Dry suit (B)
 * Ear clearing (B)
 * Fitness to dive (B)
 * Freediving blackout (B)
 * Gas blending for scuba diving (B)
 * History of underwater diving (B)
 * Hypercapnia (B) (med)
 * Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (B)
 * Nitrox (B)
 * Physiology of decompression (B)
 * Scuba gas planning (B)
 * Scuba skills (B)
 * Technical diving (B)
 * Trimix (breathing gas) (B)
 * Underwater vision (B)
 * Wreck diving (B)

High importance article B-class reviews
Articles undergoing review. Feel welcome to lend a hand. The goal is to get all of these to B-Class some time. Promoted during the last 3 calendar months:
 * 1) Advanced Open Water Diver 1n2?3?4n5y6y Lot of work needed.&bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:58, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Buddy check 1n2y3y4y5y6y Needs refs. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 06:54, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Buoyancy compensator (diving) 1?2?3y4y5y6y Needs refs and copyediting &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:39, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Cave diving 1n2n3y4n5y6y More referencing, include non-recreational aspects, neutral tone.&bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 04:46, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Commercial offshore diving 1n2y3y4y5y6y Bit more referencing needed &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 07:07, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Deep diving 1n2y3y4y5y6y Needs references, particularly for deep air record claims, otherwise probably OK. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:57, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Dive computer 1n2y3y4y5y6y Bit more referencing needed, otherwise OK. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:19, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Divemaster 1?2y3y4y5n6y Needs a photo or two and a couple of refs &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 11:45, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Diver certification 1y2?3y4y5y6y Unsure about completeness. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:45, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) Diver navigation 1n2n3y4y5y6y Needs references and expansion as noted on talk page &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 18:00, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) Diver rescue 1n2y3y4y5y6y Needs references, but nothing controversial. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 04:34, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) Diving air compressor 1n2?3y4y5y6y More references needed. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:45, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 13) Diving chamber 1n2y3y4y5y6y. Needs refs, otherwise fine. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:29, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 14) Diving disorders 1n2n3y4y5n6y Needs references from main articles, lead needs expansion and a couple of images would be nice. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:11, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 15) Diving helmet 1n2n3y4y5y6y . Needs refs, more detail. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 18:46, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 16) Diving instructor 1y2n3y4y5y6y. Some empty sections to be improved. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 08:57, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 17) Diving shot 1n2y3y4y5y6y Needs more references, otherwise OK. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 14:54, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 18) Emergency ascent 1?2?3y4y5y6y Needs more references, and if possible, more information on policies of training organisations. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 07:33, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 19) Full-face diving mask 1n2y3y4y5y6y Referencing needs a lot of work, Otherwise OK. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 17:46, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 20) Professional diving 1n2n3y4y5y6y. More references and expanded lead. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:11, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 21) Rebreather 1n2y3y4y5y6y Needs refs. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:17, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 22) Rebreather diving 1n2y3y4y5y6y Needs refs &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:11, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 23) Recreational diver training 1n2n3y4y5y6y Expand and add references. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:20, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 24) Scuba set 1n2y3y4y5y6y Still lacks adequate citation &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:15, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 25) Sidemount diving 1n2y3y4y5y6y Needs a few more references, otherwise good. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:04, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 26) Snorkeling 1n2y3y4y5y6y Needs references. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:38, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 27) Standard diving dress 1n2y3y4y5y6y Sort out references and challenged statements, otherwise good. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 06:52, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 28) Surface-supplied diving skills 1n2n3y4n5y6y New article, Moderate amount of work needed &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 11:13, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 29) Swimfin 1n2y3y4n5y6n Some clarification needed. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 04:39, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 30) Underwater habitat 1n2n3y4y5y6y Mostly needs citations. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:55, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 31) Underwater search and recovery 1n2n3y4y5y6y Needs to be expanded considerably to include non-diver S&R., also needs refs.&bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:28, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 32) Wetsuit 1n2y3y4y5y6y. Needs more refs. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 17:37, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 33) History of scuba diving

Mid-importance B-class reviews
Selected C-class articles undergoing B-class review. Feel welcome to lend a hand, and to add any others you are willing to work on. The goal is to get these to B-Class in 2017.
 * 1) Doing It Right (scuba diving) Lots of work needed. Some empty sections and "Doing it wrongly" needs a lot of work, and preferably a better header.

Promoted during the last 3 calendar months:

New articles
Please feel free to list your new WPSCUBA-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

Dive regions/sites:

Merge proposals



 * Recent merges done

Images needed

 * Tag the article talk pages with an appropriate media request template or leave a note. Try to be specific about what you think needs to be illustrated. You can also leave a note here.

Clean up

 * Fontana (Schooner) may not be a dive site.

Tagged for expansion
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Short descriptions
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Almost all project articles have been completed, but anyone is free to check and improve them, or work on others. A short description must fulfill its functions, but otherwise should be as short as reasonably practicable.

Barnstar

 * —an award placed at another users talk page for improving Underwater diving-related articles.



Categories
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Related categories

 * Category:Underwater diving medicine
 * Category:Science of underwater diving
 * Category:Underwater occupations
 * Category:Underwater work

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