page_title: Surface-supplied diving skills
section_title: Dressing in the diver
hierarchical_section_title: Surface-supplied diving skills / Basic skills / Dressing in the diver
caption_attribution_description: English: Senior Chief Petty Officer Jorge Guillen, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, secures a diver's underwater breathing apparatus before a dive into Africa's Lake Victoria. The dive is part of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa mission to search for and possibly recover wreckage from an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane that crashed into the lake on March 9.
context_page_description: Surface supplied diving skills are the skills and procedures required for the safe operation and use of surface-supplied diving equipment. Besides these skills, which may be categorised as standard operating procedures, emergency procedures and rescue procedures, there are the actual working skills required to do the job, and the procedures for safe operation of the work equipment other than diving equipment that may be needed.
  Some of the skills are common to all types of surface-supplied equipment and deployment modes, others are specific to the type of bell or stage, or to saturation diving. There are other skills required of divers which apply to the surface support function, and some of those are also mentioned here.
context_section_description: Some surface supplied diving equipment is heavy and cumbersome, and the diver is usually assisted with dressing in by a diver's attendant, who is often also a diver, so the skills of assisting a diver to dress in are necessary for the diver. The equipment involved includes:
  Exposure suit - Wetsuit, dry suit or hot water suit.
  Harness - with bailout cylinder, Buoyancy control device if applicable
  Weighting system
  Fins or boots as applicable for the planned work
  Full-face mask, band-mask or helmet
  Other accessories and task specific tools
caption: Locking the helmet to the yoke
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