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Training for Olympic diving competition requires 10-meter diving facilities, which are scant in some parts of the world. For example, the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center, built in 1979 as a YMCA facility, is one of only two Olympic-sized pools in Wisconsin that can host large events, and it is the only facility in the southeast Wisconsin region ...
Taam Ja' blue hole is an underwater sinkhole located in Chetumal Bay at the southeast corner of the Yucatán Peninsula.Its name means deep water in the Mayan language and, at over 420 metres (1,380 ft) deep, it is the deepest known blue hole.
The following index is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Wikipedia's articles on recreational dive sites. The level of coverage may vary: Recreational dive sites – specific places that recreational divers go to enjoy the underwater environment or are used for training purposes.
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.
Wall diving is a form of reef diving, where The main characteristic of the sites is that the terrain is predominantly near vertical. The height of the wall can vary from a few metres to hundreds of metres. [1] The top of the wall must be within diving depth, but the bottom may be far below or reasonably close to the surface.
For example, Forbes magazine ranked BNMP among the top 10 must-dive destinations in the world in 2017. [ 10 ] In the Bonaire Marine Park, Dixon et al. (1994) found that most divers seldom venture further than 300 m in one direction and that there was a decreasing physical impact on reef communities with increasing distance from a mooring buoy.
Memorial plaques for divers killed in the hole, left by families and friends at the site Technical diver passing under the Arch.. The Blue Hole itself is no more dangerous than any other Red Sea dive site but diving through the Arch, a submerged tunnel, which lies within the Blue Hole site, is an extreme dive that has resulted in many accidents and fatalities.
Official World Record recognized by Guinness World Records The wedding. 10 August 2019 a wedding in Pluragrotta achieved a Guinness World Record as "The largest dive access only water-locked wedding ceremony". [14] 69 persons participated and the couple to achieve the record was Jani Santala (Finland) and Ina Trælnes (Norway). [14]