Diving is an art of jumping and falling into water from a leveled point or a counted degree. Level of diving point depends on the diver, who dives. It is also a very popular sport in the Olympics while common format of diving is also used as a recreational.

History:-

With the passage of time diving has been changed now. In the beginning, when players jumps into the water as soon as they touch the water level diving competition commence but now a days diving is called the art of leaping and springing into the water.

First time in Sweden many wooden scaffolding were set out on the lake sides, on which people perform diving from great heights. This kind of procedure spread charm among the people and diving gained popularity. German culture has also played an important segment in the establishment of diving games. They build many diving clubs and one of the oldest was “Neptun”, where first International Contest was held in 1882.

Start of Fancy Diving:-

After this contest, In the late 18^th Century, first diving championship was held in the UK. In this competition the divers jumped from six feet of height, they jumped from the side of the bath, as quickly as reaching to the water diving begins. With the popularity of diving sports, in the 1891 the first diving rules were made and been implemented in Germany but in the true sense diving was worldly recognized in the 1895, when the National Graceful Diving Competition was set to perform, in this way divers started to diving from the height of 15-30 feet. In the late 1890s Otto Hagborg and C. F Mauritzi introduces fancy diving, after that fancy diving was introduced in the competitions, in the beginning of 19^th century.

Diving Sports in Olympic:-

In the year 1904, diving was firstly added in the Olympic games in Athens. German people has played a vital role for entering diving sports as a game in the Olympics. London was the first city where first table of diving sports get published in 1908 including types of diving with difficulty levels for each type, number of dives in each type and how to judge. In this table entire description of the game was also added. Table makers had also mentioned spring board and high board dives definition, according to table 20, dives from the spring board and 14 dives from high board can be taken.

First Women Diving Games:

- In the year of 1912, first women diving games were included in Olympics games, that was just a high board diving latterly in 1920 women's springboard diving was added, after that in 1928 women’s plan and fancy diving from high board were also included in the Olympic games.

Types of diving in present scenario:

- With the evolution, many changes have been occurred in the diving as well as different types of diving has been taking place throughout the world, according to their needs and according to weather conditions of the region. The most popular diving kind is scuba diving, which is divided in sub kinds:-

ü Cave

ü Drift

ü Ice

ü Night

ü Wall

ü Wreck

Scuba Diving:-

This kind of diving is most popular form of diving because it takes place in high deep seas. This kind of diving is also difficult for many of beginners as in this kind diver have to carry his own breathing equipment, containing a small tank of oxygen gas, which they left on their back and take a breath from the pump which held in the mouth under the deep sea.

Cave:-

Cave diving is the most thrilling and exciting form of scuba. In the kind diver dives inside the cave in the deep waters to point out the passage of cave. Due to narrow ways, dark scream of water and visionary problems made this kind a dangerous kind of Scuba because diver must have to perform diving under the dangerous conditions of narrow ways, but divers also feel comfortable with the humble circulation of tides if there is no tides and waves, the vision inside the water will become clear for the divers.

Drift:-

Drift diving is another form of scuba diving in which divers dives by the current created by the tides. Divers are able to cover large distances through this form of diving. Sometimes water currents are much stronger and sometimes they are very light so it is important for the divers to take the training of drift diving before they dive.

Ice:-

This diving held under the ice. It has one enter and exit point. First divers create the hole on the surface of ice to get in the water. For that divers do a dry suit course which prevents divers to get wet inside the water.

Night:-

In that form of diving divers start diving at night under the deep ocean, they use torches which are placed on their foreheads in order to see underwater world. This type of diving mostly used by secret services.

Wall:-

Wall diving in terms of scuba diving defines climbing the rock or short mountains that are deep under the ocean. It is diving vertically along the rock it requires much training and certifications because that is the most difficult form of diving.

Wreck:-

This is a type of recreation. This diving is performed when shipwrecks have to be explored.

Future of diving sports:-

Recreational diving is a part of human nature because it contains a lot of resemblance with surface bath, sea bath with enjoyment but Scuba Diving is a professional sport, which needs professionalism with proper safety. As most of its diving sport is dangerous for common people. In near future, there are maximum space for this kind of sports as it is increasing day by day. Simultaneously, this filed is more popular in the countries, surrounded by the seas and have large rivers. Its future is dependent on the water. That is the reason, it is getting popularity in the north Europe and Britain. Some of countries are also creating artificial diving competition, based on in-house grounds.

References

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