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Drift diving – Scuba diving where the diver is intentionally transported by the water flow; Inland diving – Diving in waters inland of the coastal high water mark. Reef diving – Recreational diving on a reef Artificial reef – Human-made underwater structure that functions as a reef
Training for Olympic diving competition requires 10-meter diving facilities, which are scant in some parts of the world. For example, the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center, built in 1979 as a YMCA facility, is one of only two Olympic-sized pools in Wisconsin that can host large events, and it is the only facility in the southeast Wisconsin region ...
A cave diver running a reel with guide line into the overhead environment. Cave diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves.The equipment used varies depending on the circumstances, and ranges from breath hold to surface supplied, but almost all cave diving is done using scuba equipment, often in specialised configurations with redundancies such as sidemount or backmounted twinset.
Boesmansgat – Sinkhole and dive site in South Africa; Bohol Sea – Marginal sea between the Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines; Booya – Schooner wrecked in Darwin, Australia; BOS 400 – Recent wreck and dive site at Duiker Point on the Cape Peninsula west coast; Bottle Island – One of the Summer Isles in Loch Broom, Scotland
Canadian World champion free-diver and record-holder Sylvia Earle: 1935- 2000 Oceanographer and marine biologist (former Chief Scientist at NOAA), author and consultant Dottie Frazier: 1922-2022 2000 American diver and dive shop owner; the first female scuba instructor and the first female dive shop owner. [24] Honor Frost: 1917-2010 2019
To keep the number of categories down, diving regions may be categorised with dive sites, but if a category of dive sites by country gets large it may be split into dive sites by country and dive regions by country. A terrestrial settlement is not a dive site, but may contain a dam, cave, or other water filled feature which is a dive site.
[4]: 100 Originally, diving was an exclusively male profession, with the exception of women who worked alongside their husbands. [4]: 101 The first mention of female divers in literature does not come until the 17th century, when a monograph of Jeju geography describes them as jamnyeo (literally "diving women"). [4]: 101
Agnes Milowka. This is a list of underwater divers whose exploits have made them notable. [a] Underwater divers are people who take part in underwater diving activities – Underwater diving is practiced as part of an occupation, or for recreation, where the practitioner submerges below the surface of the water or other liquid for a period which may range between seconds to order of a day at a ...