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So you and your buddy run through the steps: Does your buoyancy compensator work?

From Forbes • Oct. 22, 2014

Scuba equipment has not changed much since the buoyancy compensator was developed a few years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

By collecting the over-flow of gas in the compensator, this disadvantage is obviated.

From Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

"I hope their compensator worked as well as ours," he said.

From Empire by Simak, Clifford D.

When it is desired to obtain pure gases, there is introduced into the compensator a solution of tartaric acid, which retains the traces of alkalies carried along by the current of gas.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various