Scuba Diving

What is Suba Diving?

Diving is mainly done to attract the inaccessible underwater world. It is one of those areas of nature that humans have no complete control over. We can't breathe underwater. Therefore, diving allows us to be in this underwater world, even if only for a limited period of time.

Of course, the underwater world is also beautiful. Many people choose to dive in Asia or the Red Sea or the Great Barrier Reef, which are considered to be some of the best dive sites in the world. 

The variety of colors and marine animals is so impressive in all of these places that people keep coming back.

Technical Aspects

Diving is something that has attracted humanity ever since they realized that there is a world of life under the sea.

SCUBA stands for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, which is a device that can be used to breathe underwater.

The air in the tank is compressed air as we know it from the outside, so nitrogen, oxygen particles and some other gases are separated. Many people mistakenly believe that air is pure oxygen, but it will actually poison divers! Due to the nitrogen in compressed air, divers must be very careful when diving to deeper depths, as nitrogen anesthesia can occur, which has the same effect as excess alcohol. This can easily be overcome by returning to shallower waters.

A more serious effect of nitrogen is caisson's disease, also called decompression sickness, when nitrogen bubbles up in a diver's body. This becomes a problem when the diver returns to normal surface and air pressure and can result in death. 

Therefore, one of the most important things divers should remember is never to go too fast and never to return to the surface too soon.

Interesting facts

For recreational divers, the depth limit is between 30 and 40 meters (equivalent to 100 to 133 feet). If you want to go deeper, you need special training or specially trained friends.

Nuno Gomez holds the world record for the deepest dive with a length of 318 meters. He beat John Bennett (deceased), who dived 308 meters. There is a diver from France, Pascal Bernabe, who claims to have managed to dive deeper (330 meters) but this cannot be confirmed.

Interesting Divings

If you still enjoy diving, there are a few things you can do to make it even more interesting. For example there are many artificial coral reefs. These artificial reeds are created to restore destroyed coral or as a scientific experiment to see how corals grow and how to attract other marine animals. 

For example, there are still many remains that were deliberately drowned to create artificial reefs.

If you are nervous, consider diving in! Diving in a shark enclosure can be an experience of a lifetime. You're basically locked in a steel cage and lowered into a shallow shark that's attracted to the fish's gut first.

The main thing when diving will always be: SAFE and ENJOY.