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** After World War II Lambertsen called his 1940-1944 rebreather LARU ( for Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit ) but as of 1952 Lambertsen renamed again his invention and coins the acronym SCUBA ( for " self-contained underwater breathing apparatus ").
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