Essay about The Subculture of Scuba Divers

Marine biologists get to go underwater to explore and experience exciting events. They can look and study new fish, or can scuba dive down to the coral reefs. They get trained to look at the different environments under the water along with experimenting different sea creatures. Knowing the ocean and knowing what is inside it is very important for our society because the ocean is what makes up most of the earth and the ocean has a major impact on our weather and climate.

Jacques Cousteau was a man of all trades. He was a photographer, inventor of diving devices, undersea explorer, soldier, writer, oceanographer, and documentary host (“Jacques Cousteau biography,” n.d.). He developed the first ever trademarked SCUBA device titled the Aqua-Lung (“Invention; the Aqua lung,” n.d.). SCUBA is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Cousteau made his grand entrance June 11, 1910, in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France. Cousteau was a sickly child, who the doctors told not to participate in any strenuous activity. He learned to swim at age 4 and soon developed a love for the sea as well as developing a mechanical aptitude (“Jacques Cousteau biography - life,” n.d.).

Archaeology is a continuously evolving field where there is a constant stream of new branches and excavation methods. Due to the influx of new technologies and innovations in recent decades, archaeologists have been able to excavate previously inaccessible areas. For example, new diving equipment and tools such as proton magnetometers, side-scan sonar, sub-bottom profiler, and miniature submarines have allowed archaeologists to dive into the deep depths of the ocean. As a result, the branch of underwater archaeology was created to search for shipwrecks and other artifacts on the ocean floor. Underwater archaeology’s role has increased in recent years as it allows archaeologists to more accurately interpret the past by supplementing

First of all, ocean exploration technology has advanced much more than before in the past decade. In the past, people had to bring everything needed for scuba diving which included hundreds of pounds of gear and photographing technology. Now, all

Diving is something that many consider as their hobby. This is given credit to Jacques Cousteau because he invented the Aqua-Lung. In the article “The Aqua-Lung—Bringing Ocean Exploration to New Depths” by Jess Therell, it informs readers about the invention of the Aqua-Lung and the development of the creation of this. The different inventions that are made before the Aqua-Lung was invented greatly impacted the creation of the Aqua-Lung. Some of these inventions were by Captain Yves Le Prieur and by Emile Gagnan. The contrasts between the Aqua-Lung and other inventions are that the Aqua-Lung controls with the air pressure unlike the other inventions and it can allow humans to remain underwater for a longer period of time.

The National Crew is quite demanding from what I have heard from friend who have been apart of the program. You need to be able to withstand several weeks of 56 hour work weeks, with unideal conditions, in a wide variety of difficult environments.

Have you ever heard the saying “There are two sides to every story”? The book “Breathing Underwater” by Alex Flinn is written in first person view, however there is two sides to this book. The main character, Nick Andreas, recieves a restraining order from court because he is accused of hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin. These two point of views are very different but at the same time very similar.

On ABC’s Good Morning America’s Weekend Adventure special, viewers were taking to new depths of excitement and adventure as tourists went face to face with the beautiful Caribbean Reef Shark off the coast of the Bahamas. The video clip we saw showed tourists from around the world getting up close and personal with these huge, majestic fish. Participates were ecstatic after there trip down under with the fish. One tourist says, “No other dive compares to it”. How have these people been attracted to these adventure dives, and what makes these so appealing? Those are the questions I will explain in the next paragraph.

Once, when I was a little girl, my family and I decided to take a trip to some cabins in North Little Rock. While we were staying at the cabins, we had forgotten to bring our DVD player so we had to watch whatever channels the cabin t.v. had. (It didn’t have many). After a minute of flipping, we found the Olympics. At first, it was boring. Disc throws, pole vaulting, running, it was all boring. Then, the performances came on (Diving and Gymnastics). The diving was neat. All these professional divers were jumping off these 20 meters high diving boards, doing flips and spins in the air then they’d hit the water. It was amazing, but then, came the gymnastics. When they came on, I was wowed. All the spins, turns, twirls, and lands.

Just last Sunday 60 year-old lady Doreen Collyer was on her regular dive in the azure blue transparent waters of Mindarie beach, a kilometre off shore, happily paddling around in the ocean exploring the tunnels and caves with all sorts of colourful reef fish- ods and groupers， Coral trout, Emperors, Fusiliers, Parrotfishes , Surgeonfishes , Sweetlip darting around her in bursts of colour and diving into moss green seaweed crevices. Collyer would often dive just after having her usual Sunday morning decaf coffee with her two beloved children at the Mindarie marina. ON this still， June morning, Collyer was looking forward to this dive as it would be her one-hundredth. It should have been a joyous occasion but as she

Jacques Cousteau was a man of numerous works and various talents during his lifetime. In America he was well known for having several positions in his career. For example, he was a marine officer, oceanographer, scientist, conservationist, filmmaker, and an underwater explorer. However, in overseas countries, Cousteau was well-known for his documentary television show called the “Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.” Lastly, but certainly not least, Cousteau is the Creator of countless diving and scuba devices such as the “Aqua-Lung.” Overall, Jacques was an intelligent man with various ideas to help other scientists answer the questions of the oceans that we have every day. The world’s oceanographers and scientist would even continue on to say that

Within Archaeology, there are many various subfields. Marine Archaeology was a topic I didn’t even know existed, but through listening to the speaker, I was able to learn about the in-depth specifics of this subfield. I feel this was helpful to the class since our weekly lectures go over a lot of information that might not go very in-depth, but by listening to this speaker, we were given a chance to hear a lot of specifics on research happening right now. Regarding the discussion on how this relates to a larger scope of society, I think the main takeaway for the public is the imaging used from this research. Using very advanced technology, through photographs alone, the team in Guam was able to create an exact replica of the site that could be viewed from every angle on a computer. Since a large amount of the public won’t go deep diving, this is a great way to easily bring interesting Archaeological history to society. Through this Marine Archaeologist’s research, my Anthropology class was able to benefit by learning information on current Anthropology, and society is able to benefit from the research’s historical relevance as well as its technological advances that bring Marine Archaeology to

The methods used in Eilat, Israel were to provide a more diverse diving experience and redirect divers away from the fragile natural corals. Over the years that artificial reefs have been established along the coast of Eilat, some for divers entertainment and some for research, It attracts more European tourists and they by extension learn about how their activity could be detrimental to the natural corals while they enjoy an artificial

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.” -Jacques Yves Cousteau. Jacques did many things. He was an explorer and also an inventor. Most of the inventions he made were for the sea. Most people still use these inventions or made better inventions from his ideas. Jacques made Aqua-Lung. This allowed scuba divers to dive further down into the sea with more time than however long they could hold their breath.

Diving started off great today, I had just had a cup of coffee so I was energized and ready to go. I made sure I got all my stretches in before starting. Some one new came into practice today so we met her and showed her our workout. We had a long list of stuff to do today, so it took a while. We worked on handstands first. My friend decided to do his hand stands facing the wall; Mine, opposite. After finishing up some squats, we moved over to box jumps. We placed a giant mat between us and started jumping up and down on it to get the workout on our legs. I wasn't being carful and decided to do a flip, and I forgot that there was a wall in front of me and I jammed my finger into the wall. This surely did not help my situation for maybe doing