---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 197.334"
title: "46"
number: "197.334"
heading: "Open diving bells."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/197.334"
---

# §197.334. Open diving bells.


Each open diving bell must—

- (a) Have an upper section that provides an envelope capable of maintaining a bubble of breathing mixture available to a diver standing on the lower section of the platform with his body through the open bottom and his head in the bubble;
- (b) Have lifting equipment capable of returning the occupied open bell to the dive location;
- (c) Have an umbilical; and
- (d) **Be—**
  - (1) Made of corrosion-resisting material; or
  - (2) **Protected against and maintained free from injurious corrosion.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1509; 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 3306, 3703, 6101; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

### Source

Source: CGD 76-009, 43 FR 53683, Nov. 16, 1978, unless otherwise noted.