TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Diving Injuries and Air Embolism A1 - Logue, Christopher A2 - Grippi, Michael A. A2 - Elias, Jack A. A2 - Fishman, Jay A. A2 - Kotloff, Robert M. A2 - Pack, Allan I. A2 - Senior, Robert M. A2 - Siegel, Mark D. Y1 - 2015 N1 - T2 - Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders, 5e AB - During the winter of 1942–1943, Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan collaborated to develop and patent the first commercially successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), which was later named the Aqua Lung. The apparatus consisted of a demand valve regulator that could be attached to a portable cylinder containing stored compressed breathing gas. The regulator reduced the relatively high pressure of the stored gas to ambient pressure, which could then be breathed by a diver submersed in water. Prior to the development of reliable SCUBA equipment, divers were limited by surface supplied breathing gas requiring direct and continuous surface support. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1122365199 ER -