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Recreational dive sites are specific places that recreational scuba divers go to enjoy the underwater environment or for training purposes. They include technical diving sites beyond the range generally accepted for recreational diving. In this context all diving done for recreational purposes is included.
Many wall dive sites are in close proximity to more gently sloping reefs and unconsolidated sediment bottoms. No special training is required, but good buoyancy control skills are necessary for safety. Wall dive sites vary considerably in depth, and many are suitable for drift diving when a moderate current flows along the wall.
Boesmansgat – Sinkhole and dive site in South Africa; Bohol Sea – Marginal sea between the Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines; Booya – Schooner wrecked in Darwin, Australia; BOS 400 – Recent wreck and dive site at Duiker Point on the Cape Peninsula west coast; Bottle Island – One of the Summer Isles in Loch Broom, Scotland
The competitive sport of diving has included the 10-meter dive as an Olympic event since the 1904 Summer Olympics. By 1837, six indoor pools with diving boards had been built in London, England. The first diving competition was held in 1885, in Germany. [2]
– Dive resorts are not dive sites, and dive sites are not dive resorts. Marine reserves, marine protected areas, lakes, and islands are generally not dive sites unless very small, with only one place used as a dive site, though they may contain dive sites. When they do they are more accurately classed as recreational diving regions.
Now a recreational dive site; USS LST-507 – US Tank landing ship sunk off the south coast of England, now a dive site; HMS M2 – Royal Navy submarine monitor wrecked in Lyme Bay; SS Maine – British ship sunk in 1917 near Dartmouth, Devon. Now a recreational dive site; SS Maloja – UK registered passenger steamship sunk by a mine off Dover
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