What Is Scuba Diving?

By Author: Tracy Barb
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We are always curious about undiscovered things. It makes us to step into many dangerous areas. Then, we named it as "Adventure". There are plenty of amazing things we can explore on this world. It is wonderful to travel around the world. It has so many natural attractions but a world under the water is so amazing compared to the world we live.

It is called "Water World". It is huge and widely spread. The size of the water world is huge compared to the landscape. Travelers and divers enjoy exploring to this beautiful world. The living creatures in the water world are strange. It is amusing to start exploring this new wonderful world. I am going to talk about how we can enter this world.

We can enter this word by sub marine and diving. Now I am going to explain you the deep dive which would take you near the special creatures, huge mammal etc. How you can survive under water? Here is a special dive that can help you. It is called "Scuba diving".

Scuba diving is the adventure traveling around the sea. Deep divers discovered so many things from this water world. Let us see more about this adventure travel.

Scuba ...
... stands for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. Scuba diving is a form of underwater diving. Scuba set is being used to breathe in this type of diving. Scuba set allows you stay under water significantly for more hours. Scuba set is commonly used for the deep diving.

There are many purposes for the diver to explore under the water. It could be some professional reasons or personal interest.

Most of the divers go under water only for recreational purpose. Group of scuba divers enjoy going under the water is known as "recreational diving". Some technical disciplines explore the deep water to research about the myths under the water. They will do different dives such as cave diving, wreck diving, ice diving and deep diving.

Professionals such as civil engineers will go under the water for the professional purposes to execute important tasks such as oil exploration, under water welding or offshore construction etc.

They will also go diving for marine activities such as "naval diving". It includes the repair and inspection of boats and ships, salvage of wrecks and under water fishing. There is another diving called "military diving". Military frogmen play various roles in going under water. They perform roles such as direct combat, infiltration behind enemy lines, placing mines or using a manned torpedo, bomb disposal or any kind of engineering activities.

There are other diving activities called underwater photography or underwater filming divers, scientific diving that includes marine biology and underwater archaeology.

Though it provides more enjoyments, Scuba diving is quite risky. It is 36 to 62 times dangerous than automobile driving. Proper practice is required to have a safe diving. Initially experienced professional accompanies the beginners. There are several techniques are available to have a safe journey to the water world.

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