A bailout bottle, bailout cylinder or emergency gas supply (EGS) is a scuba cylinder carried by an underwater diver for use as an emergency supply of breathing gas in the event of a primary gas supply failure. A bailout cylinder may be carried by a scuba diver in addition to the primary scuba set, or by a surface supplied diver using either free-f... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailout_bottle