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posted by Admin on Mar 14

Scuba Diving An Overview

Diving is generally considered as an adventurous activity. At present lot of people are showing keen interest in knowing the art of diving. Apart from adventure people dive in oceans for some technical researching about ocean life and its creatures. Divers usually hold their breath while diving. Using breath holding techniques, divers are not able to stay for longer duration under the water. Soon divers were supplied with compressed air pumped from the surface of the ocean. With this technique divers were not able to dive deeper into the ocean. To stay longer in the ocean and dive deeper scuba diving techniques evolved. Scuba is an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. Later on scuba was used as a regular word for denoting scuba diving.
The scuba apparatus contains compressed air in a cylinder and the cylinder is equipped with hoses to enable breathing underwater. This underwater breathing equipment was first discovered by Jacques Yuves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan. In this system of compressed air breathing divers breathe air from the cylinder and will exhale in to the water. Later on using this technique a lot of advanced scuba devices evolved to take divers safely underwater without any problems. Scuba diving is basically done for professional purposes and even sometimes personally to exploit the underwater lives. At present scuba diving is explicitly made as recreational diving as it brings a lot of entertainment and enjoyment to people. Also it creates more interest in people to learn about diving and also to enjoy natures beauty under the water.
Scuba diving is used in all kinds of professional businesses involving oceans. Some of the civil engineering works like the underwater welding, oil exploration, offshore construction, etc. are carried out with the help of scuba diving techniques. post