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underwater diving

Practice of descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment

EntityactivityQ179643

Also known as diving · dive

Instance of: activity
Subclass of: aquatic locomotion
, sport

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Underwater diving, as a human activity, is the practice of descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment. It is also often referred to as diving, an ambiguous term with several possible meanings, depending on context. Immersion in water and exposure to high ambient pressure have physiological effects that limit the depths and duration possible in ambient pressure diving. Humans are not physiologically and anatomically well-adapted to the environmental conditions of diving, and various equipment has been developed to extend the depth and duration of human dives, and allow different types of work to be done.

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Location: subaquaria
aquatic environment
Practiced by: diver
diving instructor
Wikimedia outline: outline of underwater diving
Different from: diving
swimming
Members / parts: recreational diving
professional diving
snorkeling
scuba diving
Associated hazard: drowning
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Sources
1.“[The heart and underwater diving]”pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17181043/Retrieved 2024-02-08
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