Informative Essay: Recreational Scuba Diving

Recreational Scuba Diving is a popular sport that people have been practicing for decades. While almost completely self-regulated, the sport has an excellent safety record that has only improved with the technological advancement of equipment and safety procedures. Every day people across the planet enjoy traveling under the waves where they see another world with strange, foreign creatures. In a world where we only protect what we value, it helps to have as many people as possible come to value what covers 70 percent of the earth’s surface. In order for that to happen, we must dispel the myth that scuba is a dangerous, extreme sport reserved for thrill seekers. There are three basic elements that help define recreational scuba diving as …show more content…
The number of diving related injuries worldwide is a very small fraction of the number of participants. Most accidents happen with tourist or people who take scuba diving as a joke. Tourists don’t follow the procedures underwater to keep you safe and mess with fish underwater that could hurt you. People who do not regularly Scuba Dive never check their air pressure underwater or ascend too fast causing pressure injuries. 1 out of every 211,864 dives ending in a fatality does not seem so great a number when compared with the fatality rates of other activities such as in 2000, 1 out of every 116,666 sky dives ended in a fatality .If people take Scuba diving seriously, it becomes one of the safest sports out there right now and as while one of the most enjoyable …show more content…
Traditional dive tables can be intimidating to infrequent divers, but dive computers have made managing dive profiles incredibly easy. Computers tell you how deep are you underwater to regulate your depth and avoid rapid accents and their associate injuries. They keep track of your time underwater and even report you how long you can stay at that certain depth with the amount of compressed gas remaining to avoid out of air emergencies. Once you hit the surface the computer tells you how what surface interval will provide you what bottom time at what depth for the next dive. The advent of the dive computer has also opened the door for oxygen enriched air. Oxygen enriched air, when used properly, reduces the amount of nitrogen loading in the bloodstream and reduces the risk of the bends. Computers make it possible for the average recreational diver to manage these complex concepts in the real world marine environment with minimal