What is Diving?
Before the development of mechanisms that allowed humans to breathe underwater, people dived into shallow seas to harvest the ocean’s bounty. Sponge divers in the Mediterranean and the female pearl dives of Japan were able to stay underwater on one breath long enough to bring their aquatic harvest from the seafloor. In the years just before World War II, rudimentary recreational skin diving appeared. Divers wore primitive fins, homemade snorkels, and masks, which at that time were called goggles. In fact, these pioneers, who remained close to the surface and relied on their own lung capacity, were called goggle divers.
More things to talk about:
- A sport for (almost) all
- Getting started
- Gears
- Learning to Dive
- Into the Open Water
- Diving Safety
- And other things
Reference:
(Walter, Claire. What is Diving? Scuba Diving: Everything you need to know to get started (and keep going). United States: Ragged Mountain Press, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2000.)
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