page_title: Scuba set
section_title: Tank bands
hierarchical_section_title: Scuba set / Harness configuration / Harness construction / Backplate or backpack harness / Tank bands
caption_attribution_description: English: Twin 12l steel cylinders arrembled as an isolation manifolded set showing manifold, cylinder bands, boots, nets and soft (webbing) side handles. The nitrox labels are partly obscured by the upper bands.
context_page_description: A scuba set is any breathing apparatus that is carried entirely by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas at the ambient pressure. Scuba is an anacronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Although strictly speaking the scuba set is only the diving equipment which is required for providing breathing gas to the diver, general usage includes the harness by which it is carried, and those accessories which are integral parts of the harness and breathing apparatus assembly, such as a jacket or wing style buoyancy compensator and instruments mounted in a combined housing with the pressure gauge, and in the looser sense it has been used to refer to any diving equipment used by the scuba diver, though this would more commonly and accurately be termed scuba equipment or scuba gear. Scuba is overwhelmingly the most common underwater breathing system used by recreational divers and is also used in professional diving when it provides advantages, usually of mobility and range, over surface supplied diving systems, and is allowed by the relevant code of practice.
  Two basic functional systems of scuba are in general use: open-circuit-demand, and rebreather.
context_section_description: Stainless steel tank bands are the standard method for supporting manifolded twin cylinders, as they provide good support for the cylinders, minimise loads on the manifolds and provide simple and reliable attachment points for connection to a backplate
caption: Manifolded twin 12 litre steel cylinder set assembled using two stainless steel tank bands.
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