Diving is a competitive game in Olympics and an internationally recognized sport. It is a sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or spring board were performing person should also know some acrobatics. It is also performed as a part of enjoyment which can be treated as a recreational past time activity.
Diving is practiced in two ways one to develop as a carrier and others as a recreation. Professional divers earn at the situations like military emergency or during some scientific purposes. As this trilling activity become popular among the adventurous people around the world a large number of opportunities are opening in this sectors were instructors are needed for training. Resorts around the world near to beaches are appointing expert diving instructors to the entertainment of visitors. These instructors will advice the tourist how to perform diving with in a short span of time. Recreational diving does not need specialized training but a basic training in scuba diving will be helpful.  It is mostly practiced by amateurs because of the passion towards it.
There are different categories of diving such as ice diving, wreck diving, cave diving etc,
Ice diving is the area were the divers need special training from a qualified diving instructor because here the diver will get only one entry or exit point where diving will be performed under ice. A safety diver will accompany you during ice diving to assist you if there is any problem.
Cave diving is a type of technical diving in which scuba equipment is used to enable the exploration of natural or artificial caves.
Wreck diving is a type of recreational diving where ship wrecks are explored.
During early days people from Korea and Japan started diving to collect pearls from the floor of the sea and they practiced the technique of breath hold free diving here the duration of dive will depend up on the individual’s ability to hold his breath. In this case the divers will use mask, snorkel and fins.
Diving performed with the help of heavy devices such as bathy scaphe, bathy sphere and submarine is called vessel diving and in this case the diver will only be observer because here his movements are restricted.
Divers will be able to get air to their regulator or mouth piece in the case of surface air diving. Diving bells, under water habitats and rigid diving suits will help you in performing this type of diving.
Scuba diving can be said as the most popular technique of diving followed through out the world. In scuba diving the diver will dive with the help of a gas mixture carried in an autonomous diving suit.  There are two main type of scuba apparatuses, first one is open circuit were the exhaled air goes in to the water and second comes in the form of closed circuit were the exhaled air is re breathed.
Scientists and other divers who want to spend weeks or months on the bottom should follow saturation dive. Saturation occurs when the diver’s tissues have absorbed all the nitrogen that they can hold at a specific depth. In this case divers stay in under water habitats pressure vessels placed in the depth.
Diving is an adventurous and entertaining activity which needs full concentration and training will also be helpful to explore something in addition.

Originally posted 2009-08-19 04:09:54. Republished by Old Post Promoter