Unity: CMAS
First Played: Unknown
Team Members: 1
Equipment: Swimsuit, goggles, fins
Area: Outdoors
Played in Olympics: Not included
Description:
Diving or scuba diving is a sport of diving underwater in order to stay underwater. While breathing apparatus is used in this sport, it can also be done without these apparatus.
History:
People have tried to stay underwater for longer periods of time using different apparatus since ancient times. Ancient Greek divers who hunted underwater by breathing air in animal skins are depicted in paintings dating back to 500 BC. Especially when ships carrying valuable goods from the colonies in America to Europe became the focus of pirates and many ships were sunk, the need to remove the cargo from these sunken ships pushed mankind to make new inventions in order to go deeper and stay there longer. The use of diving bells dates back to these years. The next development was surface-supported underwater breathing apparatus, which had been in use for nearly 20 years when Jules Verne's book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was published. However, the biggest revolution in diving came in 1943 thanks to the regulator developed by French explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The apparatus, which Cousteau called the "water lung" and consisted of a high-pressure tube and a single-stage regulator, allowed people to dive to depths that were unimaginable and stay there for long periods of time without any dependence on the surface.
Field Measurements:
Diving disciplines There are 5 disciplines recognized by the official governing body of freediving, AIDA International (AIDA) (Association for the Development of International Diving) and the Confederation of Underwater Activities (CMAS). 1. Constant weight with fins, the most common freediving activity; The diver sinks with the help of fins and a weight. 2. Constant weight without fins is the most difficult diving discipline that operates under the same rules as fins, but does not use swimming facts. 3. In the free-diving discipline, divers use a main line for descent and ascent. 4. Variable weight discipline is a branch in which the diver uses a sled to sink and the main line or his own power to surface. There is no limit to this; the diver uses a sled when descending. He uses a method of his own choosing when ascending. 5. Unlimited diving is a diving event recorded as a time. In record attempts, if the diver faints when he comes out of the water, the attempt is considered unsuccessful. 6. Cube apnea - It takes place in a horizontal square of 15 meters long at a depth of 10 meters. It is done by covering the longest distance horizontally using fins in the standard course created in open and deep water, with no change in the diver's total weight during his performance.
