open-circuit scuba

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open-circuit scuba [′ō·pən ¦sər·kət ′skü·bə]

(engineering)

The simplest type of scuba equipment, in which all exhaled gas is discharged directly into the water and the utilization of gas is therefore equal to the mass exhaled.

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