Sport diving is aggressive diving for scuba divers. The primary competitors was performed in Zaragoza, Spain in 2000. Sport diving is now a world sport with occasions hosted around the globe, however totally on the European continent.
In a nutshell, sport diving is for scuba divers to compete each individually and in groups . Competitions are normally carried out in a swimming pool ( as a spectator sport) or an accredited physique of water.
The concept is to compete in underwater occasions that require the usage of tactical, technical and particular psycho-physical situations in a aggressive vogue that assessments the proficiency of every participant’s diving skills.
This underwater sport requires leisure open circuit scuba gear and entails each aggressive particular person and workforce occasions that check every competitor’s competency in leisure scuba diving methods.
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There are 5 occasions in sport diving: Three particular person occasions and two workforce occasions.
The person occasions are:
- Occasion M 300 – It is a time trial occasion over 300m consisting of 6 laps in a 50m pool.
- Lap 1 – Scuba entry, elimination of scuba set mid-lap, free swim to floor and snorkel swim
- Lap 2 – Swim on the floor
- Lap 3 – Free dive to find and daybreak scuba set and proceed the lap underneath water
- Laps 4 to six – Underwater swim on scuba
- Night time Diving – Opponents put on blacked out masks and should discover 3 objects on the underside of the pool inside 3 minutes
- Immersion 6k – This occasion entails being the primary to raise a 6kg weight from the underside of the pool to the floor.
Group occasions embody:
- Impediment Course – This occasion is a time primarily based competitors the place a buddy-pair swims 100m of a impediment course that spans two swimming lanes whereas finishing up plenty of duties.
- Briefing – This occasion requires a workforce of 4 divers to finish a search and knowledge gathering activity whereas underwater
Under is a synopsis of the aims, gear and guidelines concerned in sport diving:
Aims of Sport Diving:
The worldwide guidelines of competitors comprise the next 4 aims for Sport Diving – firstly, encourage the additional growth of leisure scuba diving gear and approach; secondly, promote scuba diving actions in localities which are distant from appropriate diving websites or the place open water exercise could also be prohibited by seasonal or adversarial climate situations; thirdly, to supply a chance for leisure scuba divers to follow and enhance approach; and fourthly, the promotion of scuba diving carried out in swimming swimming pools as a spectator sport for underwater diving fans.[2]Gear for Sport Diving:
Every competitor is required to have the next leisure diving gear – a diving masks, fins, a snorkel, a buoyancy compensator, a diving weighting system that’s impartial of the buoyancy compensator, a diving regulator designed for open circuit scuba and fitted with each an alternate air supply to be used throughout the Impediment Course occasion (refer beneath) and a submersible strain gauge, a diving cylinder with an inside quantity between 10 and 18 litres and crammed with solely respiration air of atmospheric origin, and an publicity swimsuit similar to a wetsuit or an isothermal garment similar to a dry swimsuit, and footwear similar to wetsuit boots. Opponents may also be required to put on a swimming costume of the model used for aggressive swimming.[2] The usage of the snorkel is normally obligatory for the Occasion M 300 metres (refer beneath) and optionally available in all different occasions.[3]
Gear as a diving watch or a diving pc is optionally available for a competitor to have as underwater timekeeping is carried out by competitors officers. The necessities of legal guidelines and practices in power on the place of competitors might modify or range the above necessities, i.e. diving cylinder inside quantity and strain ranking. Some occasions similar to Immersion 6 kg, Night time Diving and Briefing do require further objects of non-public gear (refer beneath).[2][4]
Competitors Discipline Specs:
The game is carried out in a 50m swimming pool with a minimal depth of 2m.[2] The Worldwide guidelines do permit the Impediment Course occasion to be carried out in pure water our bodies that fulfill the definition of ‘sheltered water’ (i.e. ‘confined water with swimming pool like situations’).[5]
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Sport diving’s governing physique is the Sport Diving Fee of the CMAS Sport Committee. See the CMAS occasions web page right here for his or her newest calendar of occasions. (* Notice 6/21/20 – I simply seen their web site certificates has expired so you could get a safety warning earlier than coming into their web site)
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