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The Tubbataha Natural Park, also known as the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (Filipino: Bahurang Tubbataha), is a protected area of the Philippines located in the middle of the Sulu Sea. The marine and bird sanctuary consists of two huge atolls (named the North Atoll and South Atoll) and the smaller Jessie Beazley Reef covering a total area of ...
The term dive site (from "dive" and "site", meaning "the place, scene, or point of an occurrence or event" [1]) is used differently depending on context.In professional diving in some regions it may refer to the surface worksite from which the diving operation is supported and controlled by the diving supervisor.
Stoney Cove – Flooded quarry in Leicestershire used for scuba diving; Subic Bay – Bay on the west coast of the island of Luzon, Philippines; Sund Rock – A designated conservation area on the U.S. state of Washington's Hood Canal; SS Superior City – Freighter in the Great Lakes service that sank in Lake Superior
A cave diver running a reel with guide line into the overhead environment. Cave diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves.The equipment used varies depending on the circumstances, and ranges from breath hold to surface supplied, but almost all cave diving is done using scuba equipment, often in specialised configurations with redundancies such as sidemount or backmounted twinset.
Bow of the Spiegel Grove Anti-aircraft gun on the stern of the Thistlegorm Deck of the Um Al Faroud Entrance to the cave system at Dos Ojos Diving at Piccaninnie ponds Wazee Lake near Black River Falls, Wisconsin is a former iron mining quarry now used for scuba diving and other uses. Recreational dive sites of the greater Cape Town region.
Recreational scuba diver The undersea kelp forest of Anacapa Island off of the coast of Oxnard, California Diver looking at a shipwreck in the Caribbean Sea. Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance. [1]
Lying at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is a massive graveyard containing more than 150 WWII planes. Brandi Mueller, a coast guard officer from Wisconsin, was scuba diving in the Marshall Islands ...
Scuba diving tourism is a growth industry, and it is necessary to consider environmental sustainability, as the expanding impact of divers can adversely affect the marine environment in several ways, and the impact also depends on the specific environment. Tropical coral reefs are more easily damaged by poor diving skills than some temperate ...