Do they still use deep sea diver or is it all scuber divers now?

Answer 1

If you are referring to commercial divers or surface supplied divers here is the distinction. Most "scuba divers" are recreational divers and unfit, untrained and unqualified to do work underwater. Most work done underwater in North America and increasingly the world at large is done by "surface supplied commercial divers", that is the air is pumped down to them through an umbilical which can also provide communication devices, power for lights and air lines for air tools. In case of an emergency a surface supplied diver can remain at depth for hours and days if necessary, where as a scuba diver can stay at depth only as long as the tank(s) he brought with him have air or gas, after that he will die.
So basically scuba diving is for recreation only and any work being done is done on surface supply with a properly trained diver.

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Answer 2

I have never so far heard the term 'deep sea diver'. For sports divers or recreational divers they use the term 'scuba divers'. There are scuba divers who do go on deep dives, eventhough the limits of recreational scuba diving is 40 meters. But not all scuba divers do dive as deep as 40 meters. There is a lot a scuba diver can see in the water also in a depth of about 10 meters or 15 meters. Unless, of course you are referring to free divers when you write the term deep sea divers. Free divers do not use all the scuba equipment which scuba divers/sports divers/recreational divers use. And last, but not least, there are also the technical divers who yet dive a bit differently again, but they do use special scuba dive equipment and get special, additional training also because they dive with special air-mixtures in their scuba-tanks.

Answer 3

To set the record straight, the two terms refer to two different groups of divers.

DEEP SEA DIVER: Diver who dives to deep depths, usually more than 18m, or 60 ft. Can be for fun (sport divers) or work (technical divers). These guys use a range of equipment from SCUBA with different mixtures (air or nitrox, which is a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen only), to SSBAs, or Surface-Supplied Breathing Apparatus, which are special helmets with breathing tubes connecting the diver to the surface, which supplies him with the air he needs. SSBAs sometimes supply the diver with a mixture called heliox, which is 82% helium and 18% oxygen. This allows the diver to go to very deep depths, but also makes him sound like Donald Duck when he inhales the mixture.

SCUBA DIVER: Diver who uses a SCUBA, or Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. SCUBA is the most common form of underwater breathing apparatus, and SCUBA divers dive for a great variety of reasons, most commonly sport diving. They may or may not dive deep, but when they do, we call them deep sea divers.

Answer 4

it really depends on what you're referring to. I don't hear deep sea diver that much and I don't think the two terms are used interchangeably. after all, the depths recreational divers dive to aren't exactly deep (40m max.)

from reading diving articles and such I think the term 'deep sea diver' is used to describe submersibles. not so much of scuba divers.

Answer 5

they almost always use scuba divers. But i still here deep sea divers everyone once in a while.

Answer 6

I know that scuba divers can go down to 250-260 ft. now
but have to use special mixes in there air usually helium
and some other gases. Deep sea divers are for commercial
jobs and can go much deeper. I speared an 8 ft bull shark
in Islamarada Fla. 4 miles off shore . he took me down to 160-
180 ft before I let him have my spear gun , Somehow I had
lost my knife. reg air no ill effects.. never ascended faster
than my smallest air bubble..

Answer 7

it doesn't really matter which word they is used. use the word that you are most comfortable with.