Glossary of Scuba Diving Terms (T)

Understanding That Strange Scuba Language

Welcome to our glossary of scuba diving terms. Diving, like many sports, has its own language. Our scuba glossary is for anyone interested in understanding the scuba diving definitions, scuba diving terms or scuba slang found in this strange scuba communication that divers use.

Our scuba glossary is easy to use. Just click on the letter that corresponds to the first letter of the word that you are looking for. All the words that begin with that letter will be displayed.

We will be constantly adding new terms to our scuba glossary. If you think we have missed a term or you can not find the scuba diving information you are looking for, please let us know. We will add it and the best definition we can find to our scuba glossary.

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A steel or aluminum cylinder shaped container designed to hold compressed gas.

Flat-bottomed, plastic, vinyl or rubber cap that fit over the rounded end of a scuba tank, allowing the tank to stand up.

Technical Diving International. Maine-based certification agency for technical aspects of recreational scuba.

Diving with special breathing gas mixtures such as Nitrox, Trimix and Heliox. These gas mixtures help extend depth limits and dive tiles beyond the limit of recreational diving.

A layer in a body of water in which temperature changes rapidly with depth. This is normally found between a warm surface layer and colder, deeper water.

A current generated by the action of tides.

The cyclic rise and fall of the shoreline sea level. This rise and fall is caused by the gravitational influence of the Moon and the Sun.

A part of the body characterized by specific characteristics, such as muscle, bone, or cartilage. The term is also used to refer to any part of the body with a specific half time for loading and unloading nitrogen or even a theoretical compartment.

The total duration of a dive, from the start of a descent until the diver reaches the surface. TDT includes all decompression and safety stops.

A mixture of oxygen, helium and nitrogen commonly used as a breathing gas for deep diving at depths of 165 feet (50 meters).