SCUBA DIVING IN EGYPT
Couple years ago I have pleasure to participate
in scuba diving event in Egypt. It was stunning experience! On our trip there
was a leaflet about diving on a cruise it was quite expensive but it was worth
it. Diving into the sea, seeing those colorful sea creatures ( one turtle and a
lot of fishes) was amazing. Under water I felt like in space. It is a bit confusing
when gravity apply on your body differently.
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We were lucky because of this
turtle and as our coach said they are pretty rare because of the tourists, 10
years ago they were common in the water but nowadays due to big demand and
contamination the hydrosphere there are less and less of them… Unfortunatelly.
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As I experienced diving is not that easy as I thought before. If you have sufficient level in diving and you can dive without instructor it turns out that is not only goin under water and breath with air from bottle. You need to know everything about streams in specific area, when to go down and when you should wait before going up after diving on a certain depth you need to wait couple of hours before surfacing from the water, it is because of the pressure and becaus your blood is diluted since you have been breathing with special blend of oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen for and hour or hours.
On the image above we can see that the pressure falls as long as you are going deeper and deeper. To be specific in salt water every 10 meteres is one atmosphere.
During dive, diver can control his position by pumping and releasing air in his vest it is thing that you need to learn with the experience to know exactly how much of it should you use to avoid touching coral reef and a ground.
- Have you ever tried diving ? Do you liked it or not?
- Are you afraid of depth ? Would you try diving into the cave?
- What do you know about risk of diving?
Comments
I'm not afraid of two things, deep and high altitude and depth . A diving in the cave is one of the most beautiful diving areas in the world. The beauty of nature under the sea gives me a delicate calmness.
No, not really. I rather would say I'm more afraid of heights than depths.
Well, I know that it's important to not make any rapid dives and submerges especially when you work on depth more than 20 meters. If you try to do so, your blood will start to coagulate due to abrupt changes in pressure which can cause death. When coagulation starts, usually you don't have too much time to react and save a person, so it's important to keep that in my mind when you try scuba diving for the first time.
I don't afraid depth, rather afraid to panic and die due to some blood issues. Caves are the most interesting part actually at least for me.
There is a huge pile of things that cant go wrong under the water so I would prefer to someone to instruct me first and dive with professional instructor.
No, I didn't, but I want to try it in the future. It seems to be great way to spend time at the coasts during summer.
Are you afraid of depth ? Would you try diving into the cave?
Well... I'm afraid of depth only when thinking of diving in the seas and oceans. And I wouldn't try diving into anything with hard celling above my head, at least in the beginning of my diving experience. And of course - not diving there alone.
What do you know about risk of diving?
I know about the pressure risks, when going up or down too quickly and I know about the danger of different animals, that are living in the water and were never met by non-divers. But I also know, that there are a lot more dangers and risks than I know about.
I wouldn’t say that I am afraid of depth I am rather afraid of the pressure that growth rapidly. It made my first experience a little bit unpleasant but after all I don’t regret trying it.
The thing I would take care most is defective equipment because if something goes wrong on such depth it may end dramatically. Thus I would never dive on my own.
It's hard to tell if I am afraid of depth. It's important in life to overcome fears.
My dad has got the license for diving and from his experience, I know that there is a lot of things we should care about when we are underwater. It's important not to dive alone because it's becoming even more dangerous. I saw a lot of documentary films about diving which prove it.
I'm afraid. But I would like to try to dive in the cave. I hope I will have such an opportunity once.
I don't know too much. But I can guess. For sure that can end up with a cylinder with air. Or there may be something else underwater. Some sea fish or anything else can attack us.
I'm not claustrophobic so I guess that I could do well in a depth of an underwater cave. Nevertheless I certainly wouldn't risk diving into any cave without a well experienced guide with me.
From your article it seems that the risk of being eaten by shark is not that big actually but there are some more dangerous risks coming from being too inexperienced and too confident - for example, you can put yourself in danger if you dive into a cave without any guide.
I've tried diving and snorkeling multiple times in my life. Both of these activities were surprisingly fun and addictive, so yes, I definitely liked it. Moreover, I found snorkeling more attractive, because it requires much less time to prepare.
2. Are you afraid of depth ? Would you try diving into the cave?
I didn't have a chance to dive deeper than 7 meters, but I think everything is a matter of practice. The more you train the more confident you become and you're less afraid of depth in this case. After proper trainings and preparations, I would definitely try diving into the cave.
3. What do you know about risk of diving?
You've mentioned blood dilution in your presentation and this is totally true. To be honest, this is the most common risk you take when going into the water.
I'm rather afraid of depth. I feel hesitantly in wather, i feel that it's not my environment and I'm weak link. I won't be excited if i will should diving into the cave.
As I said , I don't like water and staying in water. I'm not interested about diving once again so i don't have great knowledge about it.
Gosh, never thought about it but, i think it will be very stresful for the first time. I would be afraid that i won't be able to emerge or i'll run out of oxygen. I also feel much respect to the water, i always think twice before i jump in from a yaht or just outside from swimming zones.
Well, before this presentation i haven't really thought about it.
I don’t know if I would be scared as I have never dived before, but I think after few hours of training with instructor I would try to dive into the cave.
The key takeaway for me are: pressure differences on the different depths and special, different from air gas used to fill diving cylinders.
Are you afraid of depth ? Would you try diving into the cave?
What do you know about risk of diving?
Honestly, i have a huge amount of chances to try it, but i was afraid of it so much, so i didn't do it. I would rather say that i'm afraid of height. Definitely i would try it, but someday. There is no risk when you are under the direction of teacher or any kind of instructor. I love so much extreme kind of sports and certainly you need to understand that you are the only one who is responsible for your life.
You should always be aware of a risk of diving. You have to follow the rules and never do ridiculous things, because it can end up tragically.
There is a reason why we have explored most of our world, oh wait only the land part. Oceans remain 90% unexplored by humans for couple reasons, and as long as that's the case ill stick to land or controlled environments.
Risks of diving sight unfortunately a lot even with our current technology. Not only u can get easily stuck under the water we also rely on our apparatus to breathe underwater 2 fail points here. We can add to this sickness from decompression, natural dangers coming from ocean lives, nature of how currents work, pollution of the oceans and wrecks there are dozen ways to die/ get hurt while diving.
Depth is my biggest fear, I was close to sink twice, surely I would try diving throw the cave, sound like an awesome experience. I didn't heard about all possible risks, only about a basic one, they say it's a risk to sink.
2. I am a bit of claustrophobic person, so caves could be too dangerous for me. But depth shouldn't be a big problem. Scuba diving sounds very interesting, it's like discovering a new world in the sea.
3. Not so much. I've never tried to do it, so it's hard to know something about any risk involved. I will let you know when I will try it
I have never tried a diving but I hope that someday I will try it because it sounds like a very exciting hobby. It can gives you a addrenaline and also you can see very beautiful aqua plants and animals which lives under the water. I know this views only from natures programes in a TV but as I said already I will happily try it.
2. Are you afraid of depth ? Would you try diving into the cave?
I am not sure but probably I wouldn't try to diving into the cave for my first time diving.
3. What do you know about risk of diving?
I have to admit that I don't know much about details about diving but I am conscious that it takes some risk to try it.
I have never been in situation that would trigger fear of depth. I think that diving into cave is exciting experience and if I will ever have opportunity I would do it.
Diving is risky as others extreme sports. You gamble with your health but reward is worth it.
Nah, I think I’m not afraid of depth, which is good. On the other hand - I’m afraid of heights :/. If I were given an opportunity - of course I will try diving into the cave. I always loved scenes like that in movies.
I don’t know about risks of diving, maybe something with pressure?
Depth- one of two the most scary things for me, but I would still try to dive into the cave, because it should be so interesting!
Well, I know that there are things that you don't need to touch, and that you should keep your eyes on that thing that shows how much air lasts. Everything else I've seen only in some thrillers, so i don't think that all that stuff is correct)
No, I don't.
Are you afraid of depth ? Would you try diving into the cave?
I don't afraid depth, but I'm afraid of presure, and impossibility to quickly return to the top.
What do you know about risk of diving?
I think that it depends of what kind of diving you choose. But I think it don't riskier then driving a car or crossing a street.