in each of our monthly newsletters we have a short quiz to test your diving knowledge. Before you check out the answers below, make sure that you've tried the quiz for each month first!
1. 1912
2. One of the first buoyancy vests for divers
3. Inflating drysuits in cold water or when diving trimix
4. Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
5. Bill Hogarth Main
6. An SPG
7. Beauchat
8. Emile Gagnan
9. Deutsches Institut für Normung
10. Rebreathers.
1. Aorangi
2. Buller's Shearwater
3. Jacques Cousteau
4. Imagination Point
5. East Auckland Current
6. 1981
7. Tatua
8. Riko Ricko Cave
9. 221 494 cubic metres
10. 25th November 1769
1. Pearse Resurgence
2. Wookie Hole
3. Wakulla Spring
4. Loops of bungee used by some divers to help attach cave line to rocks
5. Sheck Exley
6. 3
7. The Bahamas
8. Casey McKinley
9. Cocklebiddy
10. Cookies are non-directional markers which individual divers place on cave lines to aid navigation, but which do not change the overall navigation for the cave system for other divers.
1. 1991
2. 1.184 ATA 3. Helium
4. True
5. Helium, Oxygen and Hydrogen
6. False. The primary benefit comes from the reduced level of inert gasess, not the higher levels of oxygen.
7. 1919, but the cost of Helium prevented it from being tested
8. 33m (approximately)
9. EAN32, 21/35 and 18/45
10. 32m
1. The Red Sea (Egypt)
2. 1986 3. HMAS Canberra
4. The Britannic and The Olympic
5. No
6. F55
7. USNS Charles H. Davis
8. Three
9. Mururoa Atoll
10. Mitsubishi G4M bomber
